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04-07-2009

Indian Aviation News

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  • Airlines lower festive fares to retain fliers
    Kolkata: Airlines are aggressively marketing promotional fares in their bid to ensure their traditional festive fliers aren't wooed by Mamata Banerjee's budget goodies to switch to the railways. In fact, app...

  • Air India staff stage walkout
    Mumbai: A large number of employees of Air India staged a walkout for two hours on Friday in protest against the delay in payment of June salaries. Around 300 employees staged a demonstration outside the Mum...

  • Top bosses fly high as AI struggles to survive
    New Delhi: Air India may find itself nose down and out of the reckoning, but that isn't stopping its top bosses from living life maharaja style and literally taking the airline for a ride. Former Air India C...

  • Two-hour strike by Air India staff, management unfazed
    New Delhi: Employees of national carrier Air India went on a two-hour strike at airports across the country on Friday to protest the delay in salary payments, but it failed to move the airline management.
    "No...

  • AI strike will test the nerves of passengers and management
    New Delhi: AI strike will test the nerves of passengers and management. Despite Air India threatening to cut wages, employees have gone on strike. But this strike is different than previous indefinite strike...

  • More trains, but confusion in skies
    New Delhi: Airlines and travel agencies are divided on whether the new train services announced by Mamata Banerjee in the Railway Budget 2009-10 will see a shift of passengers from airlines to trains.
    Banerje...

  • IGI fiddles with swine flu tests
    New Delhi: While Rajya Sabha has witnessed stormy scenes over the past couple of days with several members pointing out that surveillance for H1N1 influenza at Indian airports is still not satisfactory, many...

  • Fliers will have to gear up for 3 months of chaos
    Mumbai: Come October and Mumbai airport is likely to be shut for six hours every Tuesday for runway repair work. Following the re-carpeting work on the intersection between the two runways, the airport may b...

  • Kerala CM, ministers have narrow escape on snag-hit flight
    Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala Chief Minister V S Achuthanandan and two of his Cabinet colleagues had a narrow escape when an Indian Airlines flight landed safely at Nagpur last morning after one of its twin eng...

  • US national caught with gun at airport gets bail
    Chennai: A US national, Larry Selimeyer, who was arrested at the Chennai airport on June 11 for being in possession of a gun and live ammunition, was granted conditional bail by the Madras High Court on Frid...

  • GE Aviation plots India sourcing
    Mumbai: GE Aviation, one of the world's leading manufacturer of jet engines for both commercial and military aircraft, is looking at sourcing $100 million of aero parts from India.
    Nalin Jain, country directo...

  • Now, junior women suffer apathy
    New Delhi: In January, they were left to fend for themselves on the streets of Sydney. A week back, the Indian women's hockey development (junior) team was forced to run from pillar to post, either trying to...

  • Let the mouse be your pilot
    New Delhi: If you are new to the Capital and don't know your way to or from the airport, help is now just a click away.
    The official website of Indira Gandhi International Airport -- www.newdelhiairport.in --...

  • SpiceJet may merge with JetLite
    Consolidation is in the air, and there is buzz that SpiceJet may fly together with JetLite. CNBC-TV18?s Gopika Gopakumar reports that SpiceJet is most likely to go in for a merger or an acquisition with JetL...

  • Jet Air-Kingfisher pact finally takes off
    Mumbai: After an eight-month delay, the alliance between the country?s two largest private carriers, Jet Airways and Kingfisher Airlines, finally took off on July 1. ?To start with, both the airlines have st...


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  • AME Licence Exam Admitted List Revised
    DGCA has revised the list of candidates admitted for AME Licence Examination (Jun2009-Regular Session). The examinations are on 7 & 8 July, 2009.

    The revised list for various centers:
    Bangalore Chennai Kolkata...

  • Students hold on to hope of refunds from defunct flight school
    Little has been resolved a year after American School of Aviation hastily closed amid a growing stack of unpaid bills, leaving about 100 aspiring pilots without their wings.Gemini Flight Service, which sold ...

  • UPES & Center for Aviation Studies launching B Sc (Aviation Studies) program
    The University of Petroleum & Energy Studies, Gurgaon (UPES) through the Center for Aviation Studies (CAS) is launching a B Sc (Aviation Studies) degree program specifically designed and administered for the...

  • Courses that can take you up
    Thiruvananthapuram: Want to cash in on the boom in the aviation industry and do a course that can definitely take you up? The aircraft maintenance engineering (mechanical stream), aircraft maintenance engine...

  • 72 group A posts vaccant at DGCA
    DGCA has invited applications in the prescribed form from candidates for filling up of 72 Group ?A? posts in the Civil Aviation Department on short-term Contract basis. Retired Govt. Employees who are below...

  • AME exams schedule, flight crew exam computer number and pilot licence exam r...
    DGCA has published the schedule of AME licence exam (June 2009). The exams are o 7th & 8th of July, 2009 at New Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Kolkata, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Lucknow, Guwahati, Bhopal, Bhubaneshwar,...

  • MoU signed between PHHL & Navy for inducting Pilots
    Pawan Hans Helicopters Limited (PHHL) has today signed an MOU with Indian Navy for inducting Naval Pilots into PHHL. The MOU was signed in presence of Real Admiral S.M. Vadgonkar, Assistant Chief of Naval St...

  • Flight Training Adelaide in talks to launch MPL programme
    Australian flying training provider Flight Training Adelaide is in discussions with an unidentified Asian customer and the operator's local regulator on launching a multi-crew pilot licence programme.
    Chief e...

  • MiG-23s become the new lab rats for aeronautics students
    Bangalore: Russian-made MiG-23 fighter jets, phased out in March by the Indian Air Force (IAF) after nearly 30 years in service, haven?t entirely outlived their utility. The aircraft are being converted into...

  • 'Air India playing foul'
    Delhi: Twenty-four-year-old Navin Singh couldn't believe his luck when in August 2008 he received an interview call from Alliance Air, the low-cost wing of Air India, for the post of trainee pilot. Singh had...

  • Karnataka?s Prestigious Flying School to `Fly? Again
    Bangalore: Karnataka?s prestigious flying school, started way back in 1948 by the then Mysore Government soon after Indepedence and closed down since 2006 following a legal hurdle, is set to take wings yet ...

  • Alliance Air looking for Boeing 737, CRJ 700 and ATR 42-320 pilots
    Alliance Air has invited applications for the posts of type rated / rated pilots on Boeing 737, CRJ 700 and ATR 42-320. It seems the requirement of the regional airline wing of NACIL is urgent.

    Eligibility:
    Al...

  • Training academies back in action after budget carriers start hiring
    Even as full service carriers like Jet Airways and Kingfisher are implementing an agenda to trim down capacity, low cost carriers like IndiGo and SpiceJet are taking the lead in the market and hiring people....

  • AI calls off pilot recruitment over 'bias' charge
    New Delhi: Air India chairman-cum-managing director Arvind Jadhav, 53, has cancelled the recruitment of 40 trainee pilots and ordered the HR department of the airline to start the recruitment process afresh....

  • Air India undoes years of bias against air hostesses
    New Delhi: Between 1950 and 2003, AI airhostesses' flying age limit had been hiked in phases from 30 to their male counterpart?s 58. But each time this was done with a condition of regular medical checks to ...


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