Low cost airline, Indigo has started a joint venture with Gondia flying Club to meet its requirement of pilots and co-pilots. Indigo has plan to induct one aircraft every month for the next 13 years. Currently Indigo has 39 aircrafts in the fleet. The course for CPL along with type rated on A-320 is of
Air India is expecting another bailout package of Rs 2000 Crores in upcoming budget. The cash crunched airline is still bleeding despite other airlines are on a green mark. Air India already received Rs 2000 crores in past two years. Presently,Air India is getting Rs 22 Crores daily,while its expenditure is more than Rs. 30
With the onset of new year, Indigo gave the record deal of 180 aircrafts to Airbus for A320. Indigo has announced to start International flights to Singapore,Dubai,Bangkok and Muscat in few months. Indigo has given positive signs of coming into stock market with a rocking IPO.
Air India to start its non stop routes between Shanghai-New Delhi and Shanghai-Mumbai. New B-777-200 LR are going to serve the routes very soon. Air India has decided to start these routes because of high rate of business travellers and increased tourists.
Chennai based airlines “Paramount Airways” has got their license cancelelled by DGCA because of less fleet size.According to DGCA a scheduled airlines need atleast 5 aircrafts in running condition to operate in India ,but Paramount is having only one aircraft in running condition at present.
For expanding the international operations,Kingfisher has flagged off its new route from New Delhi-Hong Kong. New Airbus 330 are going to serve for this route. The service will be six times a week.
On 21st March, a small bomb was found in a Kingfisher flight IT-4731 that arrived form Bangalore to THIRUVANANTHAPURAM. It was a low explosive bomb found in the cargo compartment, it was in the size of a small ball and was wrapped in a newspaper.The Bomb Disposal Squad reached the airport to check the nature
KINGFISHER is going to start 7 new international routes in this summer.The flights will be like New Delhi- London,New Delhi- Hongkong, New Delhi- Bangkok, New Delhi-Dubai,Mumbai -Dubai, Mumbai-Colombo,Mumbai- Bangkok. The first flight is going to from March 28 between New Delhi -London.
