National carrier Indian and Air India will also introduce their summer schedules from March 26, 2006.
Subject to visa, the team will now leave for Hyderabad from Lahore in the wee hours of September 27 and reach Hyderabad via Dubai in the night.
At a time when airline across the world is hit due to slowdown and Air India is facing its worst-ever crisis, Kingfisher Airlines announced the launch of flights on eight international routes before the year-end.
'Our missions do not have any reliable data on the number of Indians staying or working illegally in foreign countries,' the MEA says.
Top golfer Gaganjeet Bhullar lodged a complaint against Emirates Airlines for delaying his bags, which he said affected his game. Jehangir Gai tells us what happened next.
Westberg is the eighth airline passenger arrested in India in the past three months for alleged unruly behaviour.
Aviation regulator DGCA conducted 53 spot checks on 48 SpiceJet aircraft between July 9 and July 13 and it did not find any major safety violations, Minister of State for Civil Aviation V K Singh said on Monday. "However, as a safety measure, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) ordered SpiceJet to use certain identified aircraft (10) for operations only after confirming to the regulator that all reported defects/malfunctions are rectified," Singh said in his written reply in Rajya Sabha. SpiceJet planes were involved in at least eight technical malfunction incidents in the 18-day period starting June 19, following which the DGCA had on July 6 issued a show-cause notice to the airline, stating that "poor internal safety oversight" and "inadequate maintenance actions" have resulted in degradation of safety margins.
Civil Aviation Minister Vayalar Ravi said the government was considering extending financial support to Air India.
From a surge in airfares to rattled aircraft lessors to thousands of employees staring at uncertainty, it has been a month of continued turbulence since cash-strapped Go First suspended flights from May 3. As the government and other stakeholders hope that Go First restarts operations at the earliest, plans are being worked out for the budget airline's revival. A section of Go First staff are optimistic about restarting of operations, another section are pessimistic about the airline's future course considering what had happened to erstwhile Kingfisher Airlines and Jet Airways, according to employees who spoke to PTI.
Yunus, 84, was administered the oath of office by President Mohammed Shahabuddin at a ceremony at the presidential palace 'Bangabhaban'.
National carrier Air India, which is launching its flight service in Pune-Dubai sector from December 12, has pegged the price of this journey at Rs 5,474 plus taxes.
A look at Bollywood stars who sailed through Mumbai airport on Tuesday.
The world's 10 longest non-stop flights criss-cross the world, cutting down travel time and making journeys easier and comfortable.
'I think some of us, like Mukesh Ambani, myself and those of us who head industrial units, ought to really focus on what we can really do to make the world a safer place, maybe 50 or 100 years from now.' 'For instance, how can we deal with climate change and global warming, right now?' 'The effects of it may not be felt now; in fact, we may pay a price for it today, but it will help the generations to follow.'
India's leading private air carrier Kingfisher Airlines has launched two new international flights connecting the UAE to New Delhi and Mumbai.
The budget carrier would now be operating 399 flights per day.
Four French judges earlier in the day began questioning the passengers detained by the French authorities at Vatry airport, 150 km east of Paris, since Thursday over suspected "human trafficking".
The plane lost contact with air traffic control officials and landed in Mumbai after around four hours.
Hotel room tariff in Ahmedabad, airfares shoot up ahead of India-Australia final
Pakistan fast bowler Mohammad Asif returned home on Friday after spending 19 days in detention in Dubai over a drug-related incident. Asif arrived in Karachi from Dubai and without coming out of the terminal caught a connecting flight to Lahore where the Pakistan Cricket Board headquarters are located.
With passengers flying Indian skies getting more and more unruly, day by day, airlines are forced to stock rope and handcuffs on board and use them as they did the other day on a Dubai-Delhi flight.
A Dubai policeman has been court sentenced to one month in prison for posting a video showing Argentine football superstar Lionel Messi's passport on social media, local media reported on Monday.
Two coronavirus infections were reported on Saturday on a flight to the Australian Open, forcing two weeks of strict hotel quarantine for all the tennis players and entourage on board.
West Asian carriers are up against Air India and IndiGo in the battle for seats on lucrative international routes.
The UB Group-owned Kingfisher Airlines said on Wednesday the government had granted it traffic rights to operate on seven new international routes.
The Maldives still considers India a friend, the tourism-dependent country's economic minister has said while defending President Mohamed Muizzu's stand against the presence of "foreign soldiers" in the archipelago nation in the Indian Ocean.
She was originally scheduled to board the ill-fated Air India Express plane bound for Mangalore.
Delhi BJP chief Manoj Tiwari tweeted about Kejriwal's trip on Friday night hitting out at him for leaving the city at a time when Delhiites were facing air pollution crisis.
The incident took place at Dubai airport where Messi landed last month to attend the seventh edition of the Globe Soccer Awards, in which he received the prize of best team and best player, local dailies said.
A Romanian aircraft carrying 275 passengers, mostly Indians, on Monday left for India four days after they were detained by the French authorities at an airport near Paris over suspected 'human trafficking'.
During the Diwali week (November 10-16), airfares on major routes across the country have surged by up to 44 per cent.
Jet Airways, SpiceJet and Vistara also operated all women crew flights, though on their domestic network.
Burney, who was the human rights minister in the interim government in Pakistan, was deported back from the Indira Gandhi International Airport by an Emirates Airways flight at Airways flight at around 2030 hours because of a "look-out" notice against him, they said. It was, however, not immediately clear who had issued the notice against him and in what connection.
In 2017, 60 million passengers flew between India and the UAE, the largest overseas air travel market from India.
Shikhar Dhawan with his wife Ayesha and children had to face an unexpected ordeal while on their way to South Africa which has led to the cricketer hitting out at the airlines
A last-minute change in his travel plan saved Congress Member of Legislative Assembly from Kerala A P Abdullakutty from meeting the fate of 158 passengers who died when an Air India Express plane from Dubai crashed near Mangalore airport on Saturday morning. Abdullakutty initially planned to catch the ill-fated flight to Mangalore since he had to reach his home town Kannur urgently. But he was a bit late to reach the Dubai International Airport and changed his ticket.
The airline also plans to introduce a third daily direct flight from Mumbai to Bangkok during the winter schedule.
Dubai's Emirates Airlines has cancelled its 16 special flights to India, which were originally planned to meet the Christmas and New Year holiday rush.
The Bombay High Court has granted permission to Salman Khan, who is out on bail after being convicted in the 2002 hit-and-run case, to travel abroad for a show.
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