The government is giving a new thrust to strengthen Air India‘s management practices and operational efficiencies while the disinvestment plan would depend on various circumstances, Finance Minister Piyush Goyal said today. The strategic disinvestment plan for debt-laden Air India did not take off after it failed to attract any bidder when the deadline for submitting
Wingtip vortices are circular patterns of rotating air left behind a wing as it generates lift. One wingtip vortex trails from the tip of each wing. Wingtip vortices are sometimes named trailing or lift-induced vortices because they also occur at points other than at the wing tips. Indeed, vorticity is trailed at any point on the wing where the lift varies span-wise (a fact described and quantified by
Contrails are line-shaped clouds produced by aircraft engine exhaust or changes in air pressure, typically at aircraft cruise altitudes several miles above the Earth’s surface. Contrails are composed primarily of water, in the form of ice crystals. The combination of water vapor in aircraft engine exhaust and the low ambient temperatures that exist at high altitudes allows the formation of
Airliner toilets use either a “closed waste system,” which works much like a common house toilet and flushes the wastewater into an onboard sewage tank, or the more modern “vacuum waste system,” which sucks wastewater into the tank. While up in the air, the latter is powered by the difference between the air pressure outside
Five persons were killed when a private plane crashed near an under-construction building in Mumbai’s Ghatkopar area while trying to make an emergency landing. The Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau will conduct a detailed probe into the crash, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) said. According to the information given by Bengal Law: a team
IndiGo said its Chief Commercial Officer Sanjay Kumar is leaving the airline and would be replaced by William Boulter. Kumar, who has been associated with the no-frills carrier for the last 12 years, has put in his papers to pursue other career interests, IndiGo said in a release. His resignation would be effective from July
Two planes of SpiceJet and Indigo suffered bird hits during landing at Patna’s Jai Prakash Narayan International Airport two weeks ago, and both had to cancel their onwards journey. The incident, though, is nothing out of the ordinary for the Patna airport. There are several factors that contribute to make the airport one of the most
Airbus A320 Neo The A320 aircraft family, which includes the A318, A319, A320 and A321, will become more fuel-efficient with the use of new engines. In this rating of the efficiency of different aircrafts, the A320neo comes in the first place. It will be the first of the re-engined series, scheduled to enter service in
VRL Airlines : India’s renowned logistic group i.e. VRL Group, which was founded 40 years ago in Gadag in North Karnataka, is planning to start a regional airline (VRL Airlines) which will be Bangalore based. Those who are interested to know more about logistics can click to read more from relevant websites,or continue reading to
The two strangers were thrust into a scene right out of the popular adult novel series “Fifty Shades of Grey” when they discovered their room was decorated with chains and handcuffs. A delayed passenger claims she was left embarrassed after an airline arranged for her and another woman to be put up in a “sex
