As it transpired at a meeting chaired by Jammau and Kashmir Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad to take stock of the cancellation of flights, the visibility criterion for landing at the Srinagar airport has been raised by the civil aviation authorities from 1.5 km to 2.2 km recently.
To avoid season pricing, keep a close eye on the calendar and begin planning travel at least 60 to 90 days in advance keeping tentative dates in mind.
While fares on the Delhi-Mumbai route have risen 45 per cent, Delhi-Bengaluru and Mumbai-Bengaluru tickets are priced 57 per cent and 42.5 per cent higher, respectively.
Videos of a purported security officer hitting a student had gone viral a couple of days ago as the stranded students tried to reach Ukraine's western borders after Russia launched an invasion of the country.
Controversial author Salman Rushdie has said that he was forced to cancel his trip to Kolkata as he was told that the police would bundle him out in the next flight on instructions from Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.
DGCA has told the airline that only "air worthy" aircraft, which are completely fit for flying, should be used in operations.
Reddy directed the officials to treat the storm as a major challenge to avoid loss of life and property as the winds are expected to blow gales reaching speeds of up to 110 kilometres per hour.
All long-haul flights between India and Britain, the United States, Canada as well as some other European cities were cancelled or indefinitely delayed on Friday as airspace remained closed over several North European airports due to drifting ash from a volcano in Iceland.
Earlier, the government had extended the regular and e-visa of those foreigners who are currently in India and unable to leave the country due to the outbreak of coronavirus, till April 15.
Several flights and trains were delayed on Tuesday as the entire North India reeled under a dense blanket of fog.
A blanket of thick fog enveloped the busy Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi on Sunday with visibility dropping to near zero and leading to delays, diversions and cancellation of 80 domestic and international flights.
The airport issued a notice to airmen on Tuesday to alert airlines that its flight operations will be suspended from 11 pm to 5 am on Thursday.
After a day's respite, fog disrupted operations at New Delhi's Indira Gandhi International airport on Tuesday morning. 15 flights, both of domestic and international carriers, were delayed and 10 others cancelled. General visibility dropped to 50 metres and runway visibility dipped to 150 metres, airport officials said.
Relatively a lesser degree of damage, including those to houses marked the landfall of cyclonic storm Mandous in Tamil Nadu and at least four people were killed in rain-related incidents, authorities said in Chennai on Saturday.
Besides aircraft, passenger drones, helicopters, turboprops and seaplanes will help the government achieve its ambitious goal
SpiceJet will have to refund fare to passengers due to a flight delay.
The large scale diversion on the night of January 5-6 was mainly because of these aircraft being operated by pilots not trained on Category-III Instrument Landing System, DGCA sources said.
As most parts of the Kashmir Valley received fresh snowfall, the Srinagar-Jammu National Highway has been closed and nearly two dozen flights have been cancelled at the Srinagar international airport on Tuesday.
Besides lining up Bali, Nairobi and Toronto flights, the airline is also planning flights from Mumbai to Hong Kong. The network expansion will help the national carrier grow its market share and capitalise on the capacity vaccum created by the collapse of Jet Airways.
Airlines flew 2.1 mn passengers in July, against 1.9 mn in June.
The national capital on Tuesday witnessed overcast conditions accompanied by early morning fog which affected the operations of around 51 trains and 10 flights.
The sources said that an ATC posted at the Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi was subjected to the drug test.
The watchdog would also endeavour to do its best to help the company revive its operations within the set regulatory framework.
Travel companies have been seeing cancellations and enquiries on safety issues are piling up.
Sources at Mumbai airport said seat occupancy has declined from around 70-72 per cent to 60-64 per cent in last three-four days as passengers are postponing or cancelling trips.
The government on Saturday asked Air India pilots to end their five-day stir before coming for talks as Civil Aviation Minister Ajit Singh reached out to the Opposition to find ways to end the impasse which has led to the cancellation of at least 16 flights.
Pilots working with Air India have warned of non-co-operation if restoration of pre-Covid overtime allowance is delayed, and if other practices they say are 'discriminatory' continues. "We cannot assure that our members will undertake flying duties exceeding 70 hours a month. Any coercive action by the management will lead to industrial action to safeguard flight safety and well-being of our members," the Indian Commercial Pilots Association and the Indian Pilots Guild said in a joint letter to Air India's management on Tuesday.
The Boeing website lists the price of a Boeing 737-800 aircraft at $90.5 million.
A heavy blanket of fog enveloped the national capital for the second consecutive day on Monday, hitting air and rail services badly.Ten flights have been cancelled, 20 have been delayed and 23 diverted so far. The general visibility at the airport and the city is less than 50 metres.The visibility on Runway 28 at Terminal 3 of the Indira Gandhi International Airport is 200 metres while at Runway 29 it has plunged down to just 125 metres.
Air India will require more than 6,500 pilots to operate 470 aircraft that are to be supplied by Airbus and Boeing in the coming years, according to industry sources. Seeking to expand fleet as well as operations, the airline has placed orders for acquiring a total of 840 aircraft that includes an option to buy 370 planes. This is one of the largest aircraft order by any airline. Currently, Air India has around 1,600 pilots to operate its 113 aircraft fleet and in recent times, there have been instances of ultra-long haul flights getting cancelled or delayed due to shortage of crew.
It was a cold morning in the national capital on Thursday with the minimum temperature settling at 9 degrees Celsius, even as fog resulted in cancellation of 37 trains.
The minimum visibility in the Palam area, where the airport is located, fell to near zero levels, a Met official said.
Jet Air shares rally on expectations that continuing troubles at rival SpiceJet will help it gain market share.
When the Tatas re-boarded Air India on January 27 last year, the price of aviation turbine fuel was at over Rs 80,000 per kilolitre. Rupee was trading at around Rs 74 to a US dollar. The Omicron variant of Covid-19 was in prevalence - barely a week earlier, India had reported over 340,000 cases on a single day. Seven-day home quarantine of international travellers was the norm.
Snow showers and 8-12 inches of snow accumulation is expected by Friday morning, with the greatest amount occurring from Chicago into the northern suburbs, the weather service said, adding snow showers would finally taper off to flurries by afternoon.
The growing mismatch between Go First's losses and other group companies' profits was making it tough for the group to fund the losses of the airline venture.
43 houses were destroyed and several children are reported to have been among the dead.
The curfew imposed under Section 144 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC) will be relaxed from 7 am to 10 am, it said.
A surprise attack by Hamas militants from Gaza at daybreak killed at least 200 Israelis on Saturday even as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared "war" and said his country would extract an "unprecedented price" from its enemy.
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