Air Canada has revealed its plans to offer in-flight internet service.
The national airline said it has started tests from Thursday to offer internet service on select flights on its Toronto-Los Angeles and Montreal-Los Angeles routes. With the trial run, Air Canada joins many international ...

Brazil's Azul Airlines will perform a demo flight by 2012 to assess a sugar-based aviation fuel manufactured by a US firm, Amyris Biotechnologies Inc.
 The flight will mark the result of a project to assess the technical and sustainability features of the renewable jet fuel produced by the US ...

Government-run National Aviation Co of India Ltd, which operates the cash strapped air carrier Air India, would be provided the first instalment of equity infusion in January, which is about Rs. 400 crore.
 
"The group of ministers has recently assured support to the national carrier in ...

Airbus, the European aircraft manufacturer, has sold the first A380 airliners to French carrier Air Austral. These airliners have the potential to carry about 840 passengers in a single class.
 
A380, which is the largest of the commercial airliners, comes with standard three-class ...

Rolls-Royce, the global power systems firm, has entered into an accord with the Qatar Science and Technology Park for setting up a research, training and development programme.
 
This step is a support to the Qatar's aim for the setting up of centre for technology development, education and ...

The first Special Economic Zone for aerospace in India, which would be developing and manufacturing aerospace precision engineering products, became operational on Saturday in Belgaum. The SEZ has been launched by the Aerospace and engineering firm QuEST Global.
 
The SEZ was inaugurated by ...

The government-own oil firms have increased the prices of jet fuels by 2.4%, which is about Rs.948 per kilolitre. This is the second time that the prices of aviation fuels have been hiked in this month.
 
The hike, which came into effect from Sunday night, will provide the fuel at Rs.40,423 ...

Civil Aviation Minister Praful Patel has mentioned that about Rs. 800 crore will be infused by the government into the cash-strapped Air India as equity in two months.
 
"We are looking at equity infusion into Air India in two months," he told reporters on the sidelines of the ...

UAE-based Etihad Airways has started its services on Abu Dhabi-Hyderabad route. Hyderabad forms the seventh of the Indian destinations of the air carrier.
 
This is the first flight between Abu Dhabi and Hyderabad. The flights will be operated for four times a week for the first four months, ...

British Airways and the largest air carrier of Spain, Iberia, have agreed to merge.
 
The merger, which is expected to complete by late 2010, would make the alliance the third largest air carrier of the world, in terms of revenue. The alliance would be known under the name of TopCo and would ...

Private carrier Jet Airways has rolled out a new service on Wednesday which will enable the passenger to get information regarding the lowest fares of the air carrier by sending a SMS from mobile phones.
 
The SMS needs to be sent in the "LFS origin-destination-date" format to ...

Finnish flag carrier Finnair has appointed Mika Vehvilainen as a new chief executive. He will be assuming the new role on January 5, the group announced on Wednesday.
 
Vehvilainen will be taking over from Jukka Hienonen.

Vehvilainen, 48, is at present CEO of Nokia Siemens Networks, the ...

India’s private airline Jet Airways has mentioned that it will be launching its new daily service on Mumbai – Kathmandu route from December.
 
The air carrier currently provides two services to Kathmandu from New Delhi – one is a daily flight and another six-times from a ...

Following an increase in fuel surcharges, Kingfisher and Jet Airways upped their domestic fares as much as Rs. 200.
 
The increase in fuel surcharge also applies to Jet Airways’ subsidiary carriers JetLite and Jet Konnect. As is the case with Jet Airways, the surcharge may not exceed ...

The United Arab Emirates-based Etihad Airways will be launching four flights, on a weekly basis, on the Abu Dhabi – Hyderabad route from 2010.
 
Hyderabad will be the seventh Indian destination for the Etihad Airw, with the other destinations being Kozhikode, Kochi, Thiruvananthapuram, ...

National carrier Air India, which posted a loss of Rs.7,200 crore last fiscal, said it was in talks with financial institutions to secure additional funds to pay salaries to its employees by Nov 10.
 
"Air India is in discussion with financial institutions to secure additional funds to ...

Private carrier Kingfisher Airlines has registered a net loss of Rs.419 crore for the second quarter of the 2009-10 fiscal which ended Sep 30 against the net loss of Rs.483 crore registered during corresponding period last fiscal.
 
The net income from operations has dipped by 13% to be ...

Air India has urged government to provide it with Rs 5,000 crore in the form of additional equity with the promise for cutting down its fleet sized as well as the wage bill of its 31,000 employees.
 
According to the cash-strapped national air carrier, Rs 5,000 crore should be provided in ...

The global aviation industry lobby, International Air Transport Association, has urged the governments for approving more tax sops so that more investment can be made in fuel-efficient aircraft.
 
"We ask governments for a global approach towards aviation," IATA director general ...

Civil Aviation Minister Praful Patel told on Tuesday that he will request Civil Aviation Ministry for releasing funds to help cash-strapped Air India as soon as possible.
 
The civil aviation ministry group will hold talks with Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Wednesday on issues related ...

The 137 Air India flights, which are meant for the Hajj pilgrimage, will be operational from Tuesday.
 
Air India will be introducing 117 hub-and-spoke flights so that passengers, who do not get the Air India Hajj flights, have access to special Haj flights of Saudi Arabian Airlines and NAS ...

The civil aviation minister Praful Patel mentioned on Wednesday that government is ready for lending financial help to the cash-strapped Air India. Government will be lending $1.1 billion if Air India will find the same amount in costs cuts and extra revenue.
 
The airline had lost $875 ...

An AirAsia statement, which was announced on Wednesday, mentioned that the air carrier will be operating daily flights between Kolkata and Kuala Lumpur from November.
 
"Today, AirAsia is reiterating its commitment to the Indian market with the launch of a new route - Kolkata," ...

Air India has mentioned that it will be launching two direct flights to US next month – one will be between New York and Delhi and the other is between Mumbai and Washington.
 
According to a spokesperson of AI, “Many people want to fly Washington directly and a need has been ...

Emirates Airline, based in Dubai, has plans for expanding its services in Kerala, by adding nine more flights per week by Dec 1.
 
Asha Subramanian, the Emirates sales manager in South Kerala, who was addressing the media in Thiruvananthapuram, mentioned that with this addition the total ...

Wolfgang Prock-Schauer has quit from the post of the chief executive of Jet Airways, with effect from Oct 15.
 
Schauer, who started his career with Jet in2003, will now start his tenure with British Midland PLC (BMI) as the CEO.
 
Nikos Kardasis, who had been the CEO of Jet Airways ...

The Sharjah-based low-cost air carrier Air Arabia has lowered its air fares for the Indian travellers as a part of its festive offers.
 
"We are happy to unveil the lowest fares for this region. Air Arabia has 46 destinations in the Middle-East, North-Africa, India and Eastern Europe. ...

GoAir, a low cost Indian air carrier, has mentioned ion Sunday that it does not have any plans for “offloading” stakes, which had been reported by the media. It also added that it has plans for expanding its fleet.
 
According to Jeh Wadia , the managing director of GoAir, ...

Union Civil Aviation Minister Praful Patel has requested the Air India pilots to call off their agitation and resume their work. He has given them the assurance that they salaries of the employees will not be deducted without consulting with them.
 
"No formal decision regarding cut in ...

India’s national carrier Air India has announced a 25% to 50% cut in the productivity linked incentives of its employees.
 
The decision was taken at a board meeting of the carrier held in New Delhi.
 
Air India has mentioned that the cut will be with effect from the August ...