Page 18 - Indian Aviation

Stock options for staff, 'happy homes': Akasa airline makes flight plan

Akasa has hired around 50 employees for back office functions and is now recruiting pilots, flight attendants and airport staff.

Rakesh Jhunjhunwala's Akasa airline to lure staff with stock options

Akasa has hired around 50 employees for back office functions and is now recruiting pilots, flight attendants and airport staff.

Jet Airways 2.0 faces turbulence before take-off?

The acting CEO of Jet Airways quit this week. The date to seek regulatory permissions for restarting the airline has also been extended twice. Why is the re-launch of Jet Airways looking turbulent?

Will Indigo EGM settle spat between co-founders for good?

The spat between IndiGo's Rahul Bhatia and Rakesh Gangwal may be coming to an end. The airline has called an EGM to amend clauses in Articles of Association which has been a thorn in their relations

The many fortunes riding on Noida's Jewar airport

PM Modi recently laid the foundation stone of the Noida International Airport. Touted to be Asia's largest, it has the fortunes of Switzerland-capital Zurich linked to it. Let us understand how

The tale of two airlines

The pandemic may have willy-nilly created an opportunity to correct the anomalies of the past

Akasa Air inks $4.5-bn pact to buy CFM engines for its Boeing planes

CFM LEAP-1B engines will power the airline's recently acquired Boeing 737 MAX airplanes

IndiGo weighs charging fliers for check-in baggage as market heats up

IndiGo joins Go Airlines India Ltd., which is also looking to unbundle baggage charges from air tickets to position itself as an ultra-low cost carrier

Helicopter sector set to take off as govt smoothens flight approvals

A beta version of the application called 'HeliSewa' was unveiled at Ficci helicopter summit earlier this month; system will be rolled out over the next few weeks

TMS, Ep 20: Revival for aviation and cinemas, markets, and fuel-cell EVs

Is the Indian aviation sector showing clear signs of recovery? Is this the rebirth of the film industry after a pandemic pause? How are fuel-cell electric vehicles different from EVs? Get all answers

Air India sale will energise aviation: Modi at Kushinagar airport opening

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday inaugurated a new international airport at Kushinagar in Uttar Pradesh

India's aviation sector on the verge of a turnaround?

Indian airlines' passenger traffic is rising steadily. And, in time for the festival season, airlines in India are allowed to operate at 100% capacity. What else is in favour of the sector?

Govt unveils 100-day plan for civil aviation sector, focus on 16 areas

Union minister Jyotiraditya Scindia on Thursday announced a 100-day plan for the country's civil aviation sector, including policy measures and development of airports as well as heliports. The civil aviation minister said the plan would focus on 16 areas. Addressing a press conference here, Scindia said the plan has been prepared after "combined consultations". Out of the 16 areas, 8 relate to policy and 4 pertain to reforms. Among others, six heliports would be developed in Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand under the regional air connectivity scheme UDAN. A new policy for Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul (MRO) activities has also been announced. The civil aviation sector has been adversely impacted by the coronavirus pandemic and is slowly coming on the recovery path.

Sitting on Rs 1 trn in assets, pvt airports want cash support from govt

Experts say the demands of airports controlled by big corporate groups sitting on piles of cash are unlikely to be entertained by the Modi govt

Analysts see up to Rs 2,700 crore loss for IndiGo in June 2021 quarter

High oil prices and weaker rupee is likely to hit financial performance in Q1FY22

How Indian aviation sector braved Covid turbulence better than global peers

Compared with other major countries during Covid-19, domestic airlines have precariously stayed the course

Domestic air passenger traffic nosedives to 1.92 million in May: Report

Domestic air traffic nosedived to 19.20 lakh passengers in May from around 57.3 lakh in April, registering a sharp 65-67 per cent month-on-month contraction on account of the second wave of the pandemic, a report said on Thursday. With such a sharp fall, the domestic passenger traffic reached lower than the June-July 2020 levels, rating agency Icra said. At the same time, the airlines' capacity deployment for May was lower by around 54-55 per cent 27,700 departures, compared to about 60,300 departures in April this year, indicating the lower demand stemming from averseness of consumers to travel due to the rise in infections, it said. For May 2021, the average daily departures were around 900, significantly lower than around 2,000 in April 2021. The average number of passengers per flight during May was 72, against an average of 93 passengers per flight in April 2021, said Kinjal Shah, Vice President and Co-Group Head at Icra. The gradual decline depicts the continuing stress on ..

United Airlines to scale back India flying, delay B'luru launch amid Covid

United Airlines said on Friday it is temporarily pausing service between Chicago and New Delhi in June and delaying the planned launch of flights between San Francisco and Bangalore

India's air passenger mkt may double by 2030 from pre-Covid level: Boeing

India's domestic air passenger market is expected to double its size by 2030 from the pre-pandemic level, aircraft manufacturer Boeing said on Wednesday

5,808 flights cancelled or delayed due to weather in Nov-Dec 2020: Govt

A total of 5,808 flights were delayed or cancelled in India due to adverse weather conditions, during November and December last year, Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri said on Thursday.