Private airlines that have been told to train their pilots, so that they can land even in thick foggy conditions, are still hesitant to obey the government's ultimatum.
The death toll in China's coronavirus rose sharply to 425 with 64 deaths on Monday and the number of those infected with the deadly disease rose to 20,438, Chinese health authorities said on Tuesday.
The Supreme Court on Monday termed as 'unusual' the Delhi high court's decision of reserving the order while granting interim stay on the operation of the trial court's order granting bail to Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal in a money laundering case linked to the alleged excise scam.
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.
The going has been tough for thousands of air travellers stranded at Delhi and Mumbai after volcanic ash from Iceland disrupted air traffic for six days with some struggling to report back to work and some postponing their dream holidays to Europe.
The flight with about 70 passengers on board left Chennai around 7.30 am and when it was about to land around 8:25 am, smoke was noticed from one of its engines.
The airline said it was making alternative arrangements for passengers in India.
The airline has also decided that no penalties will be levied on tickets refunded/re-validated/re-issued/re-booked on a subsequent flight, due to flight disruptions, cancellation or combination or over-flying/delay of over an hour.
The bus careened and went down to a field behind the highway, leaving a few passengers slightly injured. Its occupants were brought back to Purulia town in West Bengal for medical treatment, a party leader said.
Kingfisher Airlines on Tuesday decided to suspend all international flights from March 25 and further curtail domestic operations even as government warned the ailing carrier that its flying licence can be cancelled if it failed to meet safety norms.
Victoria, of which Melbourne is the capital, reintroduced the compulsory wearing of masks in indoor public places from Thursday while private gatherings were reduced from 30 people to 15.
Strikes by pilots have already cost Lufthansa 130 million euros so far this year.
Flight operations from Mumbai, which has been hit by worst-ever terror attack, largely remained unaffected, except for cancellation of five services by four international airlines.
Flight schedules of Air India, disrupted by a two-day strike by a section of its staff, normalised on Friday with the airline operating all its flights since morning on time.
Flyers have to download the IRCTC Android-based mobile app - IRCTC Air - from Google Playstore to book tickets.
The export project, an initiative of the ministry of commerce and industry, was spearheaded by Rajya Sabha MP and Dhangar community leader Dr Vikas Mahatme. It was aimed at increasing the income of farmers and open new avenues of self-employment.
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".
Tokyo 2020 said it chose not to send the high-level delegation, which was originally set to include organising committee president Yoshiro Mori and Olympics minister Seiko Hashimoto, to Greece due to the coronavirus.
Aviation regulator DGCA on Tuesday started the special audit of the facilities of Go First, which has sought approval for restarting operations. A team of officials from the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) started the special audit of the facilities of Go First in Mumbai on Tuesday, according to an airline executive. The audit of the facilities will be done on Wednesday also.
According to airline sources, the software, which is of Atlanta-based SITA company, was not functioning approximately from 3 am to 9 am on Saturday. Consequently, boarding passes could not be issued at major airports across the world and various flights were delayed.
Aman Sehrawat missed out on securing a berth for the Paris Games after losing his semi-final at the Asian Olympic Qualifier.
Air India attributed the denial of boarding to the woman passengers on its flight AI 101 (Mumbai-Delhi-New York) due to the cancellation of its same flight on Thursday.
A Delhi court on Thursday directed the Central Bureau of Investigation to withdraw a lookout circular issued against the chair of Amnesty International India Board Aakar Patel in a case of an alleged violation of the Foreign Contributions Regulation Act and apologise to him.
From sea ice runways to dropping down from a mountain cliff to do the take off, a travel deal website has revealed world's top ten scariest runways.
As for the crisis emanating from the Kingfisher Airlines' flight cancellations, it is now up to the airline to utilise those measures and come up with resources, he tells Business Standard's Kavita Chowdhury in an interview.
Stoke had arrived at Manchester United's training ground for the game when they were informed of Michael O'Neill's positive test.
A plume of ash from an erupting Icelandic volcano headed for Britain on Tuesday, forcing flight cancellations and a change in United States President Barack Obama's travel plans.
Dense fog disrupted normal operations at the Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi this morning with about 17 flights being delayed and another three cancelled.
Air India, IndiGo, and SpiceJet have suspended flights to China and Hong Kong.
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At least 12 flights have been cancelled and four rescheduled at the Mumbai International Airport, due to six-hour runway closure starting on Tuesday.
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.
According to a survey by travel portal ixigo, economy airfares from Mumbai have shot up by almost 25- 30 per cent till the end of March.
DGCA summons airline's officials on safety issues.
The carrier is loaded by debt of as much as Rs 7,000 crore.
An Air India flight to Bhubaneswar from here was delayed by nearly eight hours allegedly due to some "VIPs" forcing the government-owned carrier to reassign the aircraft and its crew for Bhopal, a charge denied by the airline.
Dense fog enveloped the Indira Gandhi Airport on Friday morning, leading to the diversion of four flights and delaying 75 others. Two Jet Airway flights from Doha and Abu Dhabi and one Kingfisher flight from Dubai were diverted to Jaipur while one cargo flight from Chennai was diverted to Ahmedabad, airport officials said. Ten flights were cancelled due to operational reasons or poor weather conditions at the destination. The fog started to descend at nearly 2 am.
