Latest in a string of orders by the country's carriers, India's newest budget carrier Akasa Air has placed an order for four Boeing 737-8 jets, the airline announced on Wednesday. With this, the airline has now ordered a total of 76 ...
Domestic airlines industry is expected to fly back into profitability next fiscal, for the first time since the outbreak of Covid, amid easing cost pressures and reduction in leverage to support credit profiles, a report said on Wednesday. As per the ...
Civil Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia on Monday visited Delhi airport and held discussions with all stakeholders on ways to address the congestion at the airport. Scindia, along with senior ministry officials, visited Terminal 3 of the airport amid complaints from passengers ...
Tata group-owned Air India has put in place an ethics governance structure and is also establishing committees at the apex and regional levels to bolster the ethics culture at the airline, according to an internal document. The apex ethics committee has ...
Indian airlines carried 1.14 crore passengers in October, 10 per cent higher than the number of people flown in September. Data released by the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) on Tuesday showed that domestic air traffic jumped nearly 27 per ...
The civil aviation ministry is planning to amend the guidelines for the allocation of slots for airlines, wherein it has proposed to review the allocation every six months. A slot authorises an airline to operate a flight at a particular airport ...
The civil aviation ministry on Wednesday said the use of masks is not compulsory during air travel but passengers should preferably use them, a decision that comes amid declining number of coronavirus cases. Till now, the use of masks or face ...
The government is working on mandating blending of jet fuel with sustainable aviation fuel as the country works on ways to reduce emissions, Civil Aviation Secretary Rajiv Bansal said on Tuesday. "We are committed to reducing emissions by fossil fuels... the ...
Aviation regulator DGCA has allowed IndiGo to wet lease wide-body Boeing planes from Turkish Airlines for up to six months and has rejected the domestic carrier's request for leasing the aircraft for up to two years, according to sources. The Directorate ...
Scheduled airlines will operate 21,941 flights on domestic routes every week in the winter schedule starting from October 30. The number of weekly flights will be 1.55 per cent lower than 22,287 flights operated in the previous winter schedule. The winter ...
Indian airlines carried 1.01 crore passengers in August, reflecting a more than 4 per cent growth in domestic air traffic compared to the previous month. The carriers flew 97.05 lakh passengers in July. "Passengers carried by domestic airlines during January-August 2022 ...
