The Jewar International Airport in Greater Noida will be India’s largest airport and second largest in Asia after Yogi Adityanath Cabinet okayed 3 runaways for the second phase development of the proposed airport. Currently, Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport is the largest in the country with three runways. The first phase will, however, have only
The Uttar Pradesh Defence Corridor is going to be part of the upcoming Aero India 2021 in Bengaluru for the first time. The event is to take place from February 3 to February 5. Aero India is organised every alternate year in India which is also regarded as one of the major exhibitions for aerospace
The aviation and home affairs ministries will jointly decide on “further opening up of international air travel of passengers,” the Covid guidelines issued by the ministry of home affairs on Wednesday said. The guidelines will come into effect from. Scheduled international flights were suspended on March 23 last year due to the pandemic. Since then,
Two new airlines have begun flights to Sri Lanka while five others await approval, Manager Air Services and Traffic Rights at the Civil Aviation Authority of Sri Lanka (CAASL) Ishara Gunawardana said. He said Ethiopian Airlines and Maldivian Airlines started operations to Sri Lanka last month. Ethiopian Airlines mainly carry cargo and will also bring
Kochi: The suspension of the Kochi-London direct flight, introduced in August, has turned out to be a setback for Cochin International Airport Limited (CIAL), which is receiving a lot of enquiries about the resumption of the service. The service was popular, and the Kochi-London flights were almost filled to capacity, airport sources said. The direct
Security arrangements has been tightened at the Kamaraj domestic and Anna International airport here in view of the 72nd Republic Day celebrations tomorrow. Airport sources said the security was enhanced and several restrictions were put in place for passengers following intelligence inputs from the Centre alerting the States of possible disruption of celebrations by terror
India’s domestic traffic declined around 45 per cent to about 71 lakh passengers in December last year over December 2019 even as passenger traffic was up 12 per cent sequentially over November 2020, ratings agency Icra said in a release. The capacity deployment in December 2020 at around 67 per cent (vis-a-vis December 2019) is
New Delhi: The Indian Air Force (IAF) has sought financial quotes from American aviation giant Boeing and the European aerospace major Airbus for leasing of at least two tankers to overcome India’s critical shortage of mid-air refuelling capability. While the IAF has sought leasing quotes for two mid-air refuellers from Airbus, it has requested quotes
Panaji: Cargo movement at Goa International Airport continued to show a steady rise in December with the airport handling 576 tonnes of freight. Domestic cargo in December stood at 509 tonne, while international freight stood at 67 tonne. Exports to England stopped once the Centre banned flights to the UK during mid-December because of a
On Monday, the longest direct flight of Air India (AI-176), from San Francisco to Bengaluru’s Kempegowda International Airport successfully landed with an all-woman cockpit crew. The cockpit crew consisted of four women pilots- Captain Zoya Aggarwal, Captain Papagari Thanmai, Captain Shivani Manhas and Captain Akansha Sonaware. This is the world’s longest commercial flight to be
