21-11-2008
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Bangalore: Capt G R Gopinath, one of the largest individual shareholders in Kingfisher Airlines, has sold a portion of his shares in the company. From November 3 to 7, Gopinath sold 19,29,995 shares as per i...
New Delhi: Indian carriers can pass on some of the reduction in cost due to the dramatic fall in aviation turbine fuel (ATF) prices to customers without taking a major hit on their bottomlines. Airlines have...
Not just lower aviation turbine fuel (ATF) prices, even the government?s proposal to notify ATF as a ?declared good? will not have an immediate impact on air fares, say industry experts. Although some carrie...
New Delhi: Air travel may soon cost less as agents are planning to withdraw transaction fee of Rs 350-500 on each domestic and Rs 1,200-10,000 on international ticket, after facing protests from the passenge...
New Delhi: Finland's flag carrier Finnair, which is into the third year of operations in India, is betting big on Asian market where it saw traffic growing 18.1 per cent last month.
The 85-year-old carrier, w...
Mumbai: The much talked about operating alliance between Jet Airways (India) Ltd and Kingfisher Airlines Ltd will have to wait at least five more months to become a full-fledged one. This is mainly because b...
UB group chief Vijay Mallya?s bid to open the Indian skies for investment by foreign carriers has brought back to limelight the contentious aspects of foreign direct investment (FDI) in civil aviation.
Severa...
Mumbai: International carriers that were continually adding capacity into India in the last one year are feeling the heat of economic downturn and have started pulling out their services from the country.
Eve...
Mumbai: With the country in the midst of assembly polls in a few states and general elections not too far away, the helicopter charter industry in India seems to have left recession several nautical miles be...
New Delhi: Buckling under the pressure of civil aviation industry, the Centre is not likely to implement the new Ground Handling Policy from January 1 2009.
According to well informed sources in the Union Civ...
Mumbai: Mumbai airport has been witnessing smoother air traffic ever since the Performance Based Navigation System (PBNS) was launched two months ago.
However, this has not lead to a reduction in the Air Traf...
Mumbai: Customers of Singapore Airlines (SIA) booking an Economy Class ticket can now have the additional choice of guaranteeing a preferred seat with the launch of Preferred Seat Selection (PSS) by the airl...
A controversial human rights group in Punjab plans to release a report this weekend identifying new suspects it claims have confessed to the 1985 Air India bombing.
Sarabjit Singh Verka, of the Punjab Human R...
Nashik: Passengers of the newly launched air service for Mumbai by Kingfisher airlines have complained of inordinate delays, sources at the Ojhar airstrip said on Wednesday.
The flight (from Nashik), which wa...
Shimla: State-owned carrier Air India will suspend its operations in Himachal Pradesh from Saturday, officials said in Shimla on Thursday. The decision is likely to hit the tourism industry of the state.
Acco...
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Aviation India: CareersSoaring through the skies is the stuff dreams are made of. But for the trainee pilots at the Bombay Flying Club, the skies are filled with ominous clouds, black with looming recession. But, if the young flye...
Mumbai: Vijay Mallya-owned Kingfisher Airlines has benched 50 trainee co-pilots asking them to stay at home till further orders. The company has offered them a monthly stipend of Rs 20,000 against their take...
Even as the 76-year-old landmark Begumpet airport shut down for commercial operations earlier this year, across the runway there is an institution, which has been so much part of India's aviation history. Ho...
Mumbai: At a time when other airlines in the country are stumbling in their effort to cope with recession, the National Aviation Company of India Limited (NACIL) - which runs Air India (AI) and Indian - has ...
Thiruvananthapuram: The flying classes of the Rajiv Gandhi Academy for Aviation Technology began at CISF Ground, Chackai here on Monday. Law and Sports Minister M. Vijayakumar inaugurated the classes.
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New Delhi: At a time when several domestic airlines are looking to prune their staff strength, the Delhi-based low cost airline, IndiGo, is on the look out for more pilots, cabin attendants, customer service...
Mumbai: There may be tremors reverberating through the aviation industry, but one sector seems to be oblivious to the mayhem all around, and that?s aircraft maintenance engineering (AME).
?Yes, the global mel...
Ranchi: The Jharkhand government Saturday announced setting up of an aviation academy to train pilots in the state. ?We pay a hefty amount to other aviation companies to train students from tribal communitie...
New Delhi: This brain drain could strike a blow to India's growing aviation sector. Many pilots, including senior commanders with over 13,000 hours of flying, are applying for jobs in Gulf carriers due to jo...
Chandigarh: In a significant development, the Ministry of Defence, Government of India had given a 'No Objection Certificate' for setting up a flying training institute at Talwandi Sabo in Bathinda district....
Chennai: For Mahalakshmi (name changed), a poor Dalit girl from a village in Madurai district, flying in an aircraft was once a long-cherished dream.
Today, the very drone of a plane gives her nightmares.
Maha...
Mumbai: Airline companies under the Federation of Indian Airlines (FIA) plan to make a presentation to the civil aviation ministry saying they will be forced to axe 8,000 employees if the government implemen...
Mumbai: Private carrier Jet Airways is expected to lay off 100 of its 240 expatriate pilots, airline sources said. As a first step, the private carrier has decided not to renew the service contracts of 27 pi...
Thiruvananthapuram: The Rajiv Gandhi Academy for Aviation Technology (RGAAT) in the city, which has been on a revival path, is gearing up to spread its wings to new horizons.
Confined only to pilot training s...
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