Govt is mulling an increased scrutiny of airline pilots' mental state.
The moves comes as novel coronavirus cases continue to rise in the country.
About Rs 12,000 crore are stuck in India's first hotel district, Delhi's Aerocity, because of red tape.
The civil aviation ministry is open to the idea of raising the foreign direct investment level from the present 40 per cent to 49 per cent, even as there are indications that a decision on the issue could be taken in the Union Budget.
The civil aviation ministry is holding talks with the finance ministry on rationaliation of sales tax on aviation turbine fuel and airport taxes.
The incident took place on August 30 when Air India flight AI 102 was on its way to New Delhi from New York.
'Government shouldn't be in the business of running airlines, instead it should develop the ecosystem of civil aviation.'
A total of 11 flights have been delayed so far.
UAE's promise of $50-bn investment in Indian infra won't be included.
The loss-making airline has already started using food items stocked from India during its onward journey to Stockholm, Copenhagen, Birmingham and Madrid, and use them when returning. It has said food items purchased from these foreign cities are much more expensive when compared to Indian cities.
'Indian aviation cannot resume without at least three major airports being functional. If Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru, and Kolkata are shut, there is little chance that airlines will start flying even if the government gives the go-ahead.'
IndiGo confirmed the incident but said the aircraft did not face any technical issue in the past.
A regulator has to ensure that fares have transparency.
Kishor, who earlier worked with the BJP but turned into its strident critic of late, reacted with indignation, saying he would retire from public life if the allegations were proven true. He also asserted that those levelling the allegation against him should apologise.
SBI is the lead lender to Jet Airways, which has a debt burden of more than Rs 8,000 crore.
India's newest airline-Vistara is bullish on growth prospects.
The airline filed a police complaint against the woman, who was travelling in business class.
Fearing poaching from the BJP, the MLAs were moved and expected to be lodged in five-star hotels or resorts.
A bench of Chief Justice N V Ramana and Justice Manmohan issued notice to Civil Aviation Ministry, DGCA and others and sought their response by October 30.
Key stimuli of the government's relief package will be a tax break on jet fuel, waiver of parking and landing charges at airports for the next six months and deferment of payment to oil companies by three months.
Govt gave 36,000 seats per week more than inter-ministerial group's recommendations.
The trial run for one week would be applicable for domestic passengers.
India must address issues that are plaguing its aviation sector.
Of the 243 listed flights, it claimed to have operated 75 across the country after 1600 hours on Wednesday.
Last year, Air India replaced veg and non-veg sandwiches with veg hot meals on flights
As and when Jet Airways applies for slots, these would be allocated among all airlines according to guidelines, without any claim of historicity in favour of any airline. Slots would be given to Jet only from the available remaining pool.
So far, government officials or employees were allowed to fly only Air India or its subsidiaries on official duty.
Built in 1974, the building could fetch anywhere between Rs 1,000 crore to Rs 1,500 crore, based on current real estate prices
All scheduled commercial passenger flights have been suspended in India since March 25 when the Modi government imposed a lockdown to contain the novel cornavirus pandemic.
Air India will very soon get funds from the government for its day to day operations and will even place orders for a couple of aircraft
Govt may grant infrastructure status to the aviation industry to enable it to access finances at cheaper rates
The airline with a 66-aircraft fleet said on Monday that it would be inducting 16 planes this year and the remaining 12 by 2014.
Facing threat of terror attacks, the home ministry has ordered security audit of nearly 100 civil airports and decided to bring all such facilities under the Central Industrial Security Force cover gradually.
Since Friday evening, 41-year-old Shemir, who works as a logistics manager in Dubai Silicon Oasis, has been making frantic phone calls to different trauma centres in Kerala near the Kozhikode airport to get information of his family members on board the flight.
Ajay Singh is trying hard to turnaround SpiceJet.
Jet has pulled out flights from Northeast states and also cancelled its Srinagar flight, leading to reduction in capacity.
While the airline is accommodating passengers on available flights, this is resulting in extending travel time and detour for customers.
Jaitley did not say if it will be an outright sale or partial divestment.
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