Currently, airlines are required to pay compensation of Rs 5,000-10,000 to a passenger, in addition to a ticket refund in case of flight cancellation. Soon, all that may change. However, compensation is payable if the airline does not give advance intimation to a passenger, which is at least 24 hours before departure.
Indian Airlines is likely to suffer a loss of Rs 98.90 crore (Rs 989 million) in 2002-2003 due to increase in the price of aviation turbine fuel and hike in insurance premium, landing and navigational charges and levy of customs duty.
From the Gulf countries to Malaysia and the UK to the US, the multi-agency operation christened 'Vande Bharat Mission' will see the state-owned AI operate 64 flights till May 13 in the first phase to ferry around 15,000 Indian nationals from 12 countries.
With war clouds hovering over Iraq, the Indian government has directed both Air-India and the Indian Airlines to stand in readiness for evacuating over 50,000 Indians working in Kuwait on a short notice of three days, if necessity arises.
The target for Indian Airlines is to carry about 2,000 passengers per day and for Air-India about 1,500 passengers.
"Indian Airlines has chosen to buy 43 Airbus planes. It's my strong wish the choice be finalised soon," said French Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin on Thursday.
The move is expected to give a major relief to Air India, which suffered a huge financial loss of around Rs 491 crore.
Though India is one of the largest growing markets in terms of passenger volumes, airlines have not been able to add capacity to match growth.
Air India will train its pilots in Singapore for the Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft, due for delivery from December. The move is sparking a protest from one of its pilots' unions, on promotion issues.
Private airlines wait for permission to fly abroad, foreign carriers walk away with the traffic.
The Industry Ministry is in favour of allowing foreign airlines to invest in domestic carriers, saying it would help the cash-crunch industry to raise equity, an issue that does not find support among many Indian airlines.
Civil Aviation Minister Vayalar Ravi said the air carriers had sought a meeting with the prime minister.
With indications that government is keen to allow foreign airlines buy stakes in Indian carriers, a Group of Ministers (GoM) is likely to meet next week to decide on the investment cap by them, official sources said on Friday.
Pakistani authorities have refuted Chilean police's claim of having arrested the brother of Jaish-e-Mohammed chief Maulana Masood Azhar, accused of coordinating the 1999 Indian Airlines IC-184 Kandhar hijacking, saying they had nabbed someone else, according to a media report.
C D Sahay, former chief of the Research and Analysis Wing, spoke of the events that led up to the Parliament attack.
Gauba said the JKLF spearheaded the separatist ideology in Kashmir Valley and the action was taken following the 'zero tolerance' policy of the central government against terrorism.
Grounded Indian planes will be up in air by end of April says company president
In March, our Ministry of Home Affairs had given to its Pakistani counterpart a list of 50 terrorists -- Indian as well as Pakistani nationals -- who were suspected to have been involved in acts of terrorism in India. The Pakistani authorities were requested to have them arrested and handed over to India for trial.
The Central Bureau of Investigation has conclusively established that the person detained in Chile is not the man it was looking for in connection with the conspiracy in the hijacking of an Indian Airlines plane in 1999 and that he was just a visa offender.
Rivals say the concessions would benefit AirAsia alone.
The civil aviation ministry initiated and then made a mess of the merger of the erstwhile Indian Airlines with Air India, according to a Comptroller and Auditor General report.
Pakistan on Thursday refused to comment on reports that the Chilean police had arrested the brother of Jaish-e-Muhammad chief Maulana Masood Azhar, who was accused of coordinating the 1999 hijacking of an Indian Airlines plane.
Aditi Phadnis remembers the former prime minister on her 102nd birth anniversary.
The government has imposed a service tax of 10.3 per cent on the gross value of tickets of all classes on the domestic flights and economy class on international routes.
Experts said the risks associated with the Indian Experts say that aviation sector would keep investors away from airline stocks.
Union Minister MK Alagiri and his sister and Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam Member of Parliament Kanimozhi, children of Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi both were travelling from Chennai to New Delhi by the same Indian Airlines flight on Tuesday.
Foreign airlines charge $100-200 or euro 75-150 for excess baggage, while Indian airlines charge Rs 300-500 per kg above 15 kg.
Ignominy, not executions, can end terrorist movements, asserts B Raman
Kamra allegedly heckled Goswami, the editor of Republic TV, on IndiGo's Mumbai-Lucknow (6E5317) flight on Tuesday.
Chidambaram pitched for greater autonomy for the restive Jammu and Kashmir yet again on Sunday, drawing stinging criticism from the Bharatiya Janata Party, with Union minister Smriti Irani calling it "shocking and shameful".
A Central mBureau of Investigation team has questioned Abdul Rauf for about four hours in Chile in connection with the hijacking of Indian Airlines plane (IC-814) in 1999 but doubts persisted over his identity as the main conspirator.
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.
The Intelligence Bureau on Sunday issued an alert about a possible hijack attempt on the Air India flight going to Kabul in Afghanistan.
Delhi-based Vayudoot was launched as a subsidiary of erstwhile Indian Airlines in January 1981 to serve the northeast region.
A volcano named 'Eyjafjallajoekull' has spread havoc across Europe hitting businesses across the world.
A person suspected to be a key conspirator in the hijacking of Indian Airlines flight IC-814 in 1999 has been detained in Chile. The Central Bureau of Investigation will dispatch a team to the South American nation soon to verify whether he is the same person wanted in India. Highly-placed sources in the government and the probe agency said on Monday that the Chilean police informed the CBI that they had detained a person identified as Abdul Rauf.
The tri-lingual film (Malayalam, Hindi and Tamil) directed by Major Ravi is based on the infamous Indian Airlines IC 814 hijacking.
At present, IndiGo operates over 17 flights between India and the Gulf
With this, multilateral lenders like the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and the European Union may continue downgrading Pakistan, making its financial situation more precarious.
