Federation of Indian Airlines has appealed to DGCA to extend notice period of flyers from 6 months to a year
Despite partial restoration of salaries, pilots across airlines remain dissatisfied, throwing challenges for managers.
Virtually addressing employees of Air India across the globe, he said for the airline to be the best again there will be an organisational redesign, and it will "require a huge transformation, probably the largest transformation and the change all of you would ever go through". The carrier will expand its "outreach both domestically and internationally" and it has the desire to connect India with every part of the globe, he added.
Beleaguered Kingfisher Airlines on Wednesday announced further reduction in its flight schedule and said its promoter Vijay Mallya will meet the pilots agitating over delayed salary on Thursday.
'The regional market has been brought to life. This is a big development in India's aviation sector,' says Civil Aviation Minister Jayant Sinha.
Air India plans to induct all these 19 aircraft between this fiscal to March 2018.
Asian and Middle Eastern airlines -- but no Indian names -- dominated the Top 10 slots at the World Airline Awards.
Six of these aircraft are currently on lease to Etihad Airways, set to start returning to Jetair's fleet in June
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IndiGo, which has about 550 flights a day, has increased the number of daily flights from Delhi to Hyderabad and Chennai to seven.
Jet Airways group CEO Ravi Chaturvedi has resigned. Amid difficult times for the aviation industry, Jet Airways has cut three of its biggest loss-making international routes and plans to lease four wide-body Boeing 777 aircraft, besides phasing out three Boeing 737 planes.
The company has dismissed 194 cabin crew and 11 pilots over past year for unauthorised absence and such reasons.
Let it gradually pull itself out of international routes and focus on linking remote towns and cities.
Liquor baron Vijay Mallya, who acquired 26 per cent stake in the country's largest budget carrier, Air Deccan, for Rs 550 crore (Rs 5.5 billion) on May 31, is still in high spirits.
There is no denying that the India-US sector is one of the hottest routes for airlines both from India and the United States
The Bengaluru skies dazzled with somersaults and stunts by metal birds.
To be bought at a cost of over Rs 1,000 crore (Rs 10 billion), these jets will replace the two ageing Boeing 737-200 aircraft purchased in 1983 for VVIP travel, Defence Minister Pranab Mukherjee.
The plane's left engine burst into flames on the runway at McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas on Tuesday afternoon while it was about to depart for London's Gatwick Airport with 159 passengers and 13 crew members on board.
GST impact: Higher lease payouts may hit airlines, cab aggregators.
5 AI's Dreamliner pilots left the airline to join other carriers without serving the mandatory six-month notice period
There are no Jet flights to and from Kolkata, Patna, Guwahati and other airports in the region. It also cancelled flights to London, Amsterdam and Paris from Mumbai, New Delhi and Bengaluru scheduled for April 12.
The airline operates nearly 950 weekly flights on 28 destinations within and outside of Saudi Arabia.
As Kashmir valley remains under flood water, Air India has decided to ferry free of cost tourists trapped in Srinagar while Gujarat and Bihar governments are sending 75,000 food and dry food packets for affected people.
The airline will fly the A320s between the Tier-II and Tier-III cities.
The lower quarterly profit was mainly due to rise in fuel costs, foreign exchange loss and lower yield
Infighting among pilots might impact Air India's 787 flights
The first set of routes that it will launch internationally will be the routes that can be flown by its existing aircraft, the A320s, which will be routes within three, three-and-a-half hours of India
Travels to Gulf accounted for 40% of India's international air traffic in 2016.
Jet and Etihad stand to benefit from cost savings and synergies in areas such as fleet acquisition, maintenance and training.
Vistara Chief Executive Officer Phee Teik Yeoh is expected to meet the senior management of BA over the next few days to discuss the partnership.
Maharaja will soon come to help wait-listed passengers of Rajdhani trains as such travelers will be provided with the option to fly by Air India by paying little extra.
'A growing segment wants to fly Vistara but may not be really ready to pay for certain products that come with a full-service carrier. That is a large segment and we can't ignore it,' says CEO Leslie Thng.
Let Air India - that anyway flies very limited international routes, often bleeding profusely and makes huge losses on trunk routes - do this national service, says Anjuli Bhargava.
Chartered flights may increase 34% from last year as more Russian tourists come calling.
The national carrier's capacity is expected to grow by 9.2 per cent with the addition of six more Boeing 787 Dreamliners to the fleet, they said. As of February this year, the airline has 13 Dreamliners in its fleet out of a total order of 27.
Jet Airways on Thursday said it would introduce more flights on both its domestic and international networks.
Airline now financially more stable but still in the doldrums as the operating environment remains tough.
