Reliance Jio had proposed that besides satellite connectivity, In-Flight Connectivity can be provided using cellular network as well.
At least 12 flights have been cancelled and four rescheduled at the Mumbai International Airport, due to six-hour runway closure starting on Tuesday.
It is the country's second aircraft carrier, after the Liaoning, and the first to be made domestically.
'Any flight I take, the crew write personal notes to me, saying how good I was as Soudamini or Seema or Bulbul.'
The government has requested the Civil Aviation Ministry to reduce the number of flights from these states in view of high prevalence of coronavirus cases there, Law and Parliamentary Affairs Minister J C Madhuswamy said in a statement.
SpiceJet had rolled out a scheme offering a discount of Rs 200 to every passenger who books a flight with only one handbag and no check-in baggage.
Air India Express and AirAsia India have moved to a unified reservation system, whereby passengers can make bookings for both airlines through an integrated website. The move is part of the ongoing process of merging AirAsia India with Air India Express. The combined entity will focus on leisure-oriented and price-sensitive markets.
The Telecommunications Bill, 2023, which was passed by a voice vote after a short debate, also allows the Centre to take possession of a telecom network in case of any public emergency or in the interest of public safety.
Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Friday sought to downplay the controversy over austerity measures that had kicked up a row in the cabinet meeting on Thursday saying it could be due to some misunderstanding.
Two days on, distressing videos have emerged showing the Boeing 737-800 on a domestic flight nose-dived into the mountains on Monday crashing with an explosion leaving its debris in a vast forested area making rescue efforts difficult.
Schedules of around 40 flights were hit on Tuesday as dense fog enveloped the Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi for the third consecutive day, causing inconvenience to passengers.
Jet Airways has also been asked to provide details of the pilots who are "habitual" of reporting sick and disrupting the airline's schedule, an official said.
Currently airline flies thrice daily flight between Delhi-Mumbai
The ISI was taking no chances and wanted no repeat of Pulwama; it wanted to make it clear at a political level it was not involved with the revenge attack being planned, but was only giving India a friendly tip-off. A stunning excerpt from Ambassador Ajay Bisaria's Anger Management: The Troubled Diplomatic Relationship between India and Pakistan.
Well aware that he has not been "everyone's cup of tea", the enigmatic David Warner says he would have toned down a bit if he were to start all over again.
"Throughout our history we've learned this lesson -- when dictators do not pay a price for their aggression, they cause more chaos. They keep moving. And, the costs and threats to America and the world keep rising," Biden said addressing the joint session of the Congress in his first State of the Union.
It neither mentions timelines for refund or compensation, nor talks about penal provisions for airlines.
No flights have taken-off or landed after 8 am as the runway visibility dropped to 50 metres on both the runways due to dense fog that enveloped the airport early on Tuesday morning, airport sources said. About 12 incoming and outgoing morning flights were cancelled.
Operations at the Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi were partially hit due to fog on Tuesday affecting the schedule of 25 domestic and international flights.
Mutual funds (MFs) invested a record Rs 1.73 trillion in equities in the financial year 2022-23 (FY23), providing strong support to the Indian markets at a time when foreign investors were redeeming their holdings. They exceeded the previous high of nearly Rs 1.72 trillion investment in equities in FY22. The data from the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) shows MFs were net buyers in the equity market in eleven of the twelve months last financial year.
Air India's home market share has fallen from 19.8% in January to 18% in July.
About a dozen flights were on Wednesday delayed after a blanket of fog enveloped New Delhi, also marginally bringing down the mercury to below 13 degree Celsius.
ir India provided facilities such as refreshments, refunds.
'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.'
The national carrier operated 190 out of its 320 scheduled flights till 1700 hours today with its narrow-bodied aircraft, offering a little over 60 per cent of its normal capacity.
Code share is a commercial agreement between two or more airlines that share the same flight, with all the partnering airlines able to sell seats on that particular flight.
Apart from Delhi, Mumbai and Chennai, the codeshare agreement with Lufthansa will cover Ahmedabad, Bengaluru, Goa, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Kochi and Pune.
State-run Air India has withdrawn its 10 direct flights to international destinations in the last three years due to poor passenger load.
While the government continues to grapple with 150 errant Air India pilots who have refused to fly for the second day, stranded passengers are left wondering what to do next
The worst-affected Sindh province reported 90 new coronavirus cases, taking the provincial tally to 357. The new cases have been detected in pilgrims who returned from Iran and have been quarantined in Sukkur, according to a spokesperson for the Sindh health department.
The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) suspended the licences of 92 pilots in 2022 for violating safety norms, which was more than double the 2021 figure. The number of scheduled flights (domestic and international) in India increased by 32.74 per cent to 1.3 million in 2022, according to data from aviation analytics firm Cirium. A DGCA official stated that the minimum period of licence suspension in 2022 was one month and the maximum was three years.
As part of its efforts to find new foreign and domestic tourist markets, the Kerala government has asked the Centre to sanction direct flights to major international tourism centres and allow more low cost carriers in the domestic circuit.
Most of the students, PTI spoke to soon after their arrival, said they had followed the advisory issued by the Indian embassy in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv.
A dozen flights were delayed by around 30 to 40 minutes here this morning as refuelling was affected by a strike called by the officers of the public sector oil companies that entered the second day on Thursday.
Visibility was very low in many areas of Delhi, Uttar Pradesh and Punjab.
Aviation regulator DGCA has allowed IndiGo to wet lease wide-body Boeing planes from Turkish Airlines for up to six months and has rejected the domestic carrier's request for leasing the aircraft for up to two years, according to sources. The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) turned down the request of the country's largest airline to wet lease the aircraft for a longer period, citing that the move could become diversion of traffic rights in collusion with a strong foreign carrier that will mainly feed the latter's hub abroad with more passengers from India, the sources said. IndiGo, which currently has only narrow-body planes in its fleet, decided to lease wide-body aircraft to operate more flights on international routes to meet rising demand.
No flights could take off or land for around two hours since 0630 IST
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Bangladesh's GMG Airlines plans to introduce daily flights to Kolkata, airline officials said on Tuesday.
Airline to increase full-service flights as Kingfisher curtails operations.
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