Category: Aviation News

MHA, aviation min to decide on global flights

The aviation and home affairs ministries will jointly decide on “further opening up of international air travel of passengers,” the Covid guidelines issued by the ministry of home affairs on Wednesday said. The guidelines will come into effect from February 1. Scheduled international flights were suspended on March 23 last year due to the pandemic.

Can the Budget help India’s aviation sector?

It has been a tough year for India’s aviation sector.  Hit hard by the Covid-19 turbulence, it quickly went into a tailspin early in March 2020, with the sector seeing zero passenger movement for almost two months. Since then, the government has gradually raised the scheduled flight capacity, even as India remains the second-worst-hit Covid-19

MHA, aviation min to decide on global flights

The aviation and home affairs ministries will jointly decide on “further opening up of international air travel of passengers,” the Covid guidelines issued by the ministry of home affairs on Wednesday said. The guidelines will come into effect from. Scheduled international flights were suspended on March 23 last year due to the pandemic. Since then,

Security tightened at airport for R-Day

Security arrangements has been tightened at the Kamaraj domestic and Anna International airport here in view of the 72nd Republic Day celebrations tomorrow.   Airport sources said the security was enhanced and several restrictions were put in place for passengers following intelligence inputs from the Centre alerting the States of possible disruption of celebrations by terror

Airlines issue travel waivers as winter storms drops ‘historic’ snow in parts of Midwest

Airlines are issuing a flurry of travel waivers allowing travelers to change their travel plans amid a winter storm in the Midwest. A major winter storm blanketed parts of the middle of the country with snow that was forecast into late Tuesday in some areas, disrupting traffic and closing some coronavirus testing sites. The National Weather

Domestic air traffic down 45% to 71 lakh

India’s domestic traffic declined around 45 per cent to about 71 lakh passengers in December last year over December 2019 even as passenger traffic was up 12 per cent sequentially over November 2020, ratings agency Icra said in a release. The capacity deployment in December 2020 at around 67 per cent (vis-a-vis December 2019) is

European aviation agency clears Boeing 737 Max to fly again

BERLIN — A modified version of the Boeing 737 Max, incorporating multiple safety upgrades, has been approved to resume flights in Europe, following nearly two years of reviews after the aircraft was involved in two deadly crashes that saw the planes grounded worldwide, the European aviation safety agency said Wednesday. Changes mandated by the European Union Aviation
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