The IndiGo airline said that with the launch of these flights, it is now offering its customers a total of 39 connecting flights to Europe via Istanbul. It has also increased the frequency of its existing flights to London, Paris, and Frankfurt, adding more than 20,000 seats a week to its network. The passengers will
Lenders to bankrupt Jet Airways India Ltd. have pushed back on the court-approved resolution plan, further delaying the return of the former No. 1 private airline to the skies. The primary dispute is about whether the new owners of Jet Airways need to pay more money into the pension funds of ex-employees, according to people
India’s youngest airline, Akasa Air, has announced its entry into Uttar Pradesh, with the addition of Lucknow as its eleventh destination to join its fast-growing network. Starting December 25, 2022, Akasa Air will offer daily flights on the Lucknow-Bengaluru route and Lucknow-Mumbai route. The airline will also enhance connectivity between Bengaluru and Kochi by adding
Airbus A-350 has landed in India on 20th March 2022. Airbus is currently on the hunt for more A-350 clients, sending a ‘demonstration model’ out on tour on March 18th. The European planemaker is hoping to convince airlines in India and Bangladesh to choose its flagship widebody for their next high-capacity long-haul aircraft. But will
Ban on Russian Airlines has been extended with USA joining the list. Russian President Vladimir Putin has called the invasion of Ukraine a “special operation” and justified it by saying “neo-Nazis” rule the country and threaten Russia’s security – a charge Kyiv and Western governments say is baseless propaganda. Due this invasion, all the Western
Raipur: Union Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri on Sunday said his ministry has set a target of operationalising 100 unserved and underserved airports and starting at least 1,000 air routes under the UDAN scheme. He also said that privatisation is required in the field of aviation as it is not the government’s specialisation to
Singapore: Singapore is not discussing an air travel bubble arrangement with India as people here understand it to be, said the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore (CAAS) on Thursday (Jan 28). CAAS was responding to media queries regarding a CNBC interview with India’s High Commissioner to Singapore P Kumaran, where he said negotiations were ongoing
The Jewar International Airport in Greater Noida will be India’s largest airport and second largest in Asia after Yogi Adityanath Cabinet okayed 3 runaways for the second phase development of the proposed airport. Currently, Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport is the largest in the country with three runways. The first phase will, however, have only
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.
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
