Pune: MP Girish Bapat, who heads the city airport advisory committee, has said that Airports Authority of India (AAI) will not be creating its own vaccine storage facility at the airport but private parties willing to set up such a facility can approach the AAI. “Last week, I sent a reminder letter to senior AAI
When 50% passengers book their air tickets over two weeks in advance, when one in every two booking involves a return flight, and when flights to metros like Chennai and Hyderabad regain their ranking among the top five domestic routes out of Mumbai, then it could be concluded that domestic air travel in India has
Wizz Air’s new Abu Dhabi unit will operate its first flight on 15 January, to Greek capital Athens, part of an initial network of destinations across the Mediterranean and Caucasus regions. Services to another Greek city, Thessaloniki, will begin on 4 February, to be followed in the coming months by flights to Alexandria in Egypt,
The Airports Authority of India (AAI) will hand over Jaipur, Guwahati and Thiruvananthapuram airports to the Adani Group next month. Apart from the above three, the group had won bids to operate three more AAI airports including Mangaluru, Lucknow and Ahmedabad for 50 years on PPP basis. While it has taken over Mangaluru, Lucknow and
While 2020 turned one of the worst years for civil aviation, there is something to cheer about. From Sunday, a new international airline will be operated to the Kempegowda International Airport (KIA), making it one of the first to start services in the Covdi-19 era. Flydubai, the UAE government-owned budget carrier, has started daily flights
Mangaluru: The airport areas are beyond the limits for videography, photography and flying objects. The airport here has a multi-layered security system to ensure this. However, at around midnight on Saturday, an object got airborne, flew into the airport territory and suddenly landed near the old runway. This incident gave rise to tense moments in
New Delhi: The Tata Group is hiking its stake in AirAsia India (AAIPL) from 51% to 83.67%. Tony Fernandes’ AirAsia group will have its stake reduced in this JV from 49% to 16.33%, accordingly. AirAsia Berhad informed the Malaysian stock exchange on Tuesday about selling its 32.67% stake in AAIPL to Tatas for about $37.7
New Delhi: The second phase of the strategic disinvestment of Air India will start on January 5, 2021 with the announcement of the names of the qualified bidders. The process has been divided into two stages. In stage I, expressions of interest (EoI) have been submitted by interested bidders and they will be shortlisted based
Member of Parliament of Rajya Sabha, Subramanian Swamy has written to civil aviation minister Hardeep Singh Puri, urging the government to disqualify Tata Sons from the Air India disinvestment process till a final decision on his plea against Tata Sons & Air Asia India is taken by the court. Swamy had first Tweeted the details
New Delhi: Finally, the debt-laden Air India sale is showing signs of taking off. The Tata Group, which has submitted an expression of interest (EoI) for Air India, is reportedly in serious discussion with Singapore Airlines (SIA), its joint venture partner in Vistara, as the $113 billion (about Rs 8.34 lakh crore) salt-to-software conglomerate is
