A government-appointed committee has dropped the proposal floated by the civil aviation ministry to restrict the number of airports a private operator can bid for under the public-private partnership model. Sources in the government said the committee, after examining the market, came to the conclusion that there are not enough players in the sector to

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) released its financial outlook for the global air transport industry, showing that airlines were expected to lose $84.3 billion in 2020 for a net profit margin of -20.1%. Revenues would fall 50% to $419 billion from $838 billion in 2019. In 2021, losses are expected to be cut to

Indian carrier SpiceJet has expanded its operations from Ras Al Khaimah International Airport (RAK Airport) to five more cities including Mumbai, Cochin, Amritsar, Lucknow and Jaipur, besides increasing frequencies to its existing Delhi-Ras Al Khaimah-Delhi route. The addition of the new destinations comes less than two months after the low-cost carrier began operations to RAK

Pune: Heavy fog in northern India delayed several inbound and outbound flights from/to Delhi and other places on Saturday morning. A Delhi-bound SpiceJet flight slated to take off from the city around 8:05 am was delayed by over two hours. Similarly, an Air India flight scheduled to land in Pune from Delhi at 8.40am was

New Delhi: Jet fuel or ATF price on Saturday was hiked by 3 per cent – the fourth increase in two months on firming international oil prices, while petrol and diesel rates remained unchanged after hitting new highs. Aviation turbine fuel (ATF) price was raised by Rs 1,512.38 per kilolitre, or 2.96 per cent, to

Now, travel from Hisar to Chandigarh in just 45 min! Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar recently flagged off the first flight from Chandigarh to Hisar under the Center’s UDAN (Ude Desh ka Aam Naagrik). The inauguration was attended by the senior officials of Airport Authority of India (AAI) and the Ministry of Civil Aviation

Kolkata: The Kolkata airport has turned into a hub of Covid-19 vaccine distribution with consignments being flown from Pune and later loaded on to flights headed for various cities in the north-east. On Tuesday, the SpiceJet flight that flew in from Pune with nearly 1 lakh doses later flew to Guwahati with 2,40,000 doses of

Pune: Heavy fog in northern India delayed several inbound and outbound flights from/to Delhi and other places on Saturday morning. A Delhi-bound SpiceJet flight slated to take off from the city around 8.05am was delayed by over two hours. Similarly, an Air India flight scheduled to land in Pune from Delhi at 8.40am was delayed

New Delhi: India’s and possibly the world’s most beautiful airport — Pakyong in Sikkim — will soon be a direct flight away from Delhi. SpiceJet will start a daily Delhi-Pakyong direct from January 23, 2021 SpiceJet was the only airline that used to fly there with a daily Kolkata-Pakyong-Kolkata flight after the airport opened in

New Delhi: IndiGo, India’s biggest airline, could start slowly rehiring staff in three months as capacity rebuilds from “the background of carnage” caused by Covid-19, with domestic services likely to return to pre-pandemic levels by January or February, chief executive officer Ronojoy Dutta said. “Doom and gloom is off the table and we are recovering