Indian airlines are expected to place orders for 1,500-1,700 aircraft over the next 12-24+ months, according to aviation consultancy CAPA. This is driven by the immense potential of the Indian market, which is considered to be one of the most promising aviation markets post-COVID. Air India is expected to make the first move, with reports

Domestic air passenger traffic in India touche 1.25 crore in January this year, an increase of 96 per cent compared to the year-ago period, according to rating agency Icra. Although the traffic remained around 2 per cent lower compared to the pre-Covid levels in January 2020, Icra maintained a negative outlook on the Indian aviation

Air India and AirAsia India are merging their route networks in an effort to create a low-cost airline. AirAsia India will be taking over flights to and from three local destinations – Bhubaneswar, Bagdogra and Surat – while Air India will be operating exclusively on Delhi-Visakhapatnam and Mumbai-Lucknow routes. Flight frequency will remain the same.

Passenger traffic at Bangalore International Airport surged 71 per cent to 27.5 million in CY2022, due to a strong recovery in domestic passenger volume. This figure reached 85 per cent of the 2019 (pre-pandemic) level and stood at 24.36-million during the year. A host of factors including relaunching of key routes, introduction of new routes

Indian engineers at GE’s largest R&D facility in Bengaluru are at the forefront of a global effort to design an aircraft engine that could reduce fuel consumption by up to 20 per cent. The project, Revolutionary Innovation for Sustainable Engines (RISE), is a joint effort between GE Aviation and the French firm Safran and includes

Air India, India’s leading airline and a Star Alliance member, has resumed non-stop flights between Milan (MXP) and Delhi (DEL). Yesterday, the inaugural flight, AI138, departed Milan’s Malpensa Airport at 20:00 hours (local time) with 249 passengers on board, and is expected to land at Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport at 08:00 hours (local time).

Domestic airline Go First announced on Monday that it will be operate charter flights for the G20 Summit hosted by India this year. The summit, with the motto “Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam” or “One Earth, One Family, One Future”, will take place in India from September 9th to 10th. Over 200 meetings related to the G20 have

Vistara, the full-service airline jointly owned by the Tata Group and Singapore Airlines, announced on Monday that it had received its Airbus A321LR plane from Germany on February 4. This is the first time an Indian carrier has operated this long range variant of the A320Neo plane. In 2018, Vistara had placed an order for

In the past year, 63 people in India have been placed on the aviation no-fly list due to unruly behaviour. This is according to the Minister of State for Aviation, VK Singh, as he informed the Rajya Sabha today. The list includes two recent cases of urinating on a flight. The Civil Aviation Requirements (CAR)

The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has imposed a fine of Rs 70 lakh on Tata-owned airline Air Vistara for failing to meet the minimum number of flights operated to underserved areas in the Northeast in April 2022. The airline had paid the fine under protest, claiming that it had deployed the requisite number