After the airline battle in India’s skies, a battle for airports is brewing down on the ground. From having a private airport at Mundra to winning bids for six airports and then check-mating GVK to bag Mumbai and Navi Mumbai, Adani airports has started making a mark. While the Ahmedabad, Lucknow and Mangaluru airports have
Mohali: Private airlines IndiGo will resume its Dubai flight from Chandigarh international airport after eight months. Air India will resume the operations of Sharjah flight, but it will arrive at Chandigarh once a week on Saturdays and will leave from Delhi. An airport spokesperson said IndiGo will be operating Dubai flight every Monday. The flight
New Delhi: Though the Indian drug regulator DCGI is yet to give an emergency-use authorisation for any COVID-19 vaccine, the country’s largest airport in Delhi is gearing up to handle distribution of lakhs of vials under Project Sanjivani as early as next month. On Tuesday, Delhi Airport Chief Executive Officer Videh Kumar Jaipuriya said they
Visakhapatnam: A medical team led by a senior medical officer has been deployed at the Visakhapatnam International Airport since Tuesday night to check the passengers flying in from Mumbai, New Delhi, Chennai and Hyderabad. “We have asked the medical personnel to check tickets of passengers to ensure they did not fly in from England or
Air India is considering refurbishing two of its Boeing 777-300ERs with its latest business class product. The airline will reportedly use the seats from the “Air India One,” the two VIP 777s which were recently upgraded. The seats from the old aircraft have since been flown to an Air India facility, possibly to be retrofitted.
The Centre on Monday denied asking airlines not to fly in Chinese nationals. According to Civil Aviation minister Hardeep Singh Puri, the government has not issued such order and that reports suggesting airlines have been asked to stop flying Chinese nationals are wrong. “It is wrong to make suggestions as to citizen of which country
Mohali: All international passengers who arrived at the Chandigarh International Airport since November 25 would be traced and tested for the Covid-19. The incoming passengers would be tested and isolated in accordance with the protocol for Covid-19. An SOP has been issued by the government in this regard. A team has been deputed for tracing
If Covid is conquered and normalcy returns, the sector should see a lot of action, from the Air India and airport privatisation, to the Tatas’ interests in the sector, to Jet Airways trying a phoenix act. What could be in store in the year ahead? Read on to find out There probably has never been
Lucknow: A man was arrested at Lucknow airport for carrying a country-made weapon and cartridges in his luggage. Divyansh Tiwari, a resident of Ambedkar Nagar district, had a ticket for a Mumbai-bound Air India flight. He was pulled out of the queue at 10am by airport security staff following detection of the weapon in his
New Delhi: In what may bring cheers to millions of people living in the NCR region a senior government executive has told news agency PTI that the first flight is expected to take off by December 2023 or January 2024. Noida International Airport Limited (NIAL) CEO Arun Vir Singh told PTI that work on the
