The first week of 2021 will see the Indian aviation industry get its newest airline Flybig, which will begin operations on January 3. The inaugural flight will take off from Indore, the airline’s base, at 2.30 in the afternoon to Ahmedabad. The total flying time will be an hour and five minutes. In the initial
Mumbai: The Kempegowda International Airport at Bengaluru (KIB) has become compliant for CAT-IIIB operations, which will allow the airlines to land aircraft at a runway visual range of as low as 50 metres besides take-offs at 125 metres, a release said on Thursday. The mechanism is functional at the south runway of the airport since
United Airlines launched a Delhi-Chicago nonstop flight, seamlessly connecting the Indian capital to three American cities. A Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner aircraft will operate between the Indira Gandhi International Airport, at Delhi and O’Hare International Airport, Chicago. The O’ Hare International Airport is the hometown hub of the airline. The daily non-stop service between Delhi and
SkyCargo, the cargo arm of Gulf carrier Emirates, has successfully flown a Brazalian satellite in a charter freighter from Sao Jose dos Campos (Brazil) to Chennai, which is to be launched into space from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in February next year, the airline said on Wednesday. Emirates SkyCargo has expertise in transporting satellites
Kuwait will resume flight operations at the Kuwait International Airport from January 2, 2021, the country’s Directorate-General for Civil Aviation (DGCA) said. In a statement on Tuesday, Saad Al-Otaibi, the DGCA spokesman, said the resumption of flights will begin on Saturday at 4 p.m., Xinhua news agency reported. Meanwhile, he added that all decisions might
The Indian Pilots Guild and the Indian Commercial Pilots Association have directed Air India pilots not to give any extension on ‘Flight Time’, ‘Flight Duty Time’ or ‘Landing’ till further notice. In a letter to their members, the associations said that the hostile work environment prevailing in the company for the last few months has
he COVID-19 pandemic had a massive impact on the Indian aviation sector in 2020 and major airlines facing losses and challenging times laid off employees, sent them on leave without pay, or cut their salaries. The government also had to extend the deadline for submitting bids for Air India five times during the year. When the pandemic
Jammu: Four flights to and from the Jammu airport were cancelled and seven more delayed as dense fog engulfed the region on Tuesday, a day after high-altitude areas, including the Vaishno Devi shrine, received the season’s first heavy snowfall, officials said. Jammu Airport Director Pravat Ranjan Beuria said flight operations were yet to begin due
Low-cost carrier SpiceJet on December 28 expressed its inability to use amphibian planes for Andaman and Nicobar routes, sources told CNBC-TV18. The airline, led by CMD Ajay Singh, has requested the Airport Authority of India to set up the infrastructure for water-to-water flight operations. The AAI, which has planned for a water aerodrome at Port
Gaya: The Mumbai-Gaya inaugural flight of IndiGo airlines, Airbus 320 landed at the runway of Gaya airport at 12.28 pm on Friday. Gaya airport director (APD) Dilip Kumar said, “The inaugural flight had 62 passengers on board, who flew to Gaya from Mumbai. On return, the Gaya-Mumbai flight had 160 passengers on board, who flew
