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According to officials, the airline has around 9,000 employees and is now looking at reducing the strength by 10-15 per cent.

The first flight departed from Chennai on February 2, part of the three flights per week service.

Reviewing the Maldivian misadventures, our Defence expert veteran *Maj. Gen. (R) C P Singh underlines the strategic importance of Lakshadweep Islands for Indo-Pacific region more than a tourism opportunity

An Aircraft Maintenance Engineering (AME) school, offering comprehensive training for engineering cadets, is also being planned.

The airlines were also asked to establish robust mechanisms for prompt resolution, to minimise food safety incidents.

Both IndiGo and MIAL were not proactive in anticipating the situation and making the appropriate facilitation arrangements for passengers at the airport, as per BCAS

GMR Airports, which operates key Indian airports such as those in Delhi and Hyderabad, saw a sharp increase in its passenger traffic in December as more people took to the skies. Air fares in India have been declining in the last couple…

"If you look at the average fare a person paid in the early 2000s and compared to how much they pay today, you will find there is not much of a change, but costs have gone up," Vinod Kannan noted.

While the regulator didn’t mention the name of the airline, SpiceJet, Akasa Air and Air India Express use the 737 Max planes.

DGCA also cut the maximum flight duty period to 10 hours from 13 hours for pilots working nights and limited the number of flight landings to two, from six, during night operations.

In November 2022, Tata group announced the merger of Vistara with Air India under a deal wherein Singapore Airlines will also acquire a 25.1 per cent stake in Air India.

पूर्वोत्तर भारत:  एक दशक पहले, विशाल वन क्षेत्र और भूमि से घिरी भौगोलिक स्थिति के साथ पूर्वोत्तर क्षेत्र की चुनौतीपूर्ण स्थलाकृति को क्षेत्र के विकास और परिवहन संपर्क के लिए एक प्राकृतिक बाधा के रूप में माना जाता था। दस साल बाद, पूर्वोत्तर…

India's largest airline, holding a whopping 61.8% market share, is cutting airfares by removing the added fuel surcharge it slapped on tickets last October due to expensive aviation fuel.

The aircraft that operated Kochi to Dubai flight made a hard landing in Dubai on December 20 and the plane remained grounded there for almost a week,, said a Sr DGCA official

The aircraft is the first of Air India's 20 Airbus A350-900 on order, with five more scheduled for delivery through March 2024, the airline said.

“Passengers from Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan,Uttar Pradesh, and Uttarakhand travel to IGI by interstate buses to catch international flights.

In calendar year 2022, IndiGo carried 78 million passengers on board (slightly above pre-Covid19 levels).

The new uniform designs were developed in close consultation with its cabin crew representatives and the airline's in-flight team, who conducted extensive testing

The board of SpiceJet has approved the issuance of equity shares/equity warrants under a private placement basis to various investors, subject to requisite approvals.