The US Federal Aviation Administration, after its audit, has mentioned that India is completely fully compliant with international safety standards.
 
"They (FAA) have taken a view to keep us in Category 1. We are now on a level playing field and things have been sorted out," Civil ...

In wake of the statement issued by government that airlines should adopt stringent measure for reducing the expenses and improving the revenues, government-run air carrier, Air India, has decided to announce a 50% reduction in its incentive package.
 
"The board may make an announcement ...

Emirates Airline, based in Dubai, unveiled its new holiday packages to various Asian as well as European destinations on the eve of Ramzan.
 
Asha Subramanian, the sales manager of Emirates Airline, said that Ramzan period generally marks a decline in the number of passengers on the flights, ...

Wipro Ltd has won a three-year outsourcing contract from Japan’s No. 2 air carrier, All Nippon Airways (ANA). The financial details of the contract have not been disclosed.
 
ANA is the first air carrier to own a Boeing 787 Dreamline. The airline is revamping its materials management ...

A bilateral deal has been inked by Air India and Singapore Airlines, according to which the passengers will be provided an opportunity to earn and redeem miles on the both the operators’ flights.
 
The new agreement, which will be effective from Sep 15, is excessively meant for ...

The daily non-stop flights of Kingfisher Airlines between Mumbai and Hong Kong will be available to the passengers from Sep 15. Yet another daily non-stop service will be added to the fleet from Sep 16, which will be between Mumbai and Singapore. The flights on both these routes will employ Airbus ...

Air India, the national air carrier, has disclosed on Tuesday that it is maintaining a reserve crew as well as aircraft, which can be sued by the Jet Airways, in case of emergency.
 
"We are in talks with the government and Jet Airways officials," Air India spokesperson Jitendra ...

The WAM news agency has reported that the national air carrier of the United Arab Emirates, Etihad Airways, has added one more flight to United States, thereby increasing its US operations.
 
The new flights will carry passengers between the UAE city of Abu Dhabi and the US City, Chicago. ...

India’s private air carrier, Kingfisher Airlines, which is owned by Vijay Mallya, has announced on Monday that the company is eyeing to raise $100 million (about Rs. 500 crore) in the Global Depository Receipts (GDRs).
 
In the regulatory statement, which was submitted by Kingfisher ...

A new in-flight menu has been unveiled by the German air carrier Lufthansa for its first class and business class passengers on India. The Indians will be entreated to a rich gourmet experience with a menu that has been designed by two celebrated Indian chefs.
 
Prawn curry masala, Tomato ...

The employees of Air India will be receiving performance incentives which will be 30% to 50% less than what they normally receive. This decision has been taken by Air India because of its “penniless“ condition.
 
The decision taken by the management has been accepted by union ...

The low-cost wing of Jet Airways, Jet Airways Konnect, will be giving a boost to its daily flights. There are plans to increase the number of flights to 180 from Oct 1. Currently, about 135 flights are being operated by Jet Airways Konnect on a daily basis.
 
"Effective September 3, ...

According to the President of Russia's Irkut aircraft building corporation, Britain's Rolls Royce and Canada's Pratt & Whitney will be supplying engines to MS-21 aircraft that has been built by them.
 
Oleg Demchenko said: "The best two firms have been chosen. The technical details ...

A code sharing pact has been signed by American Airlines and Etihad Airways which will be an added advantage to the passengers from UAE.
 
The pact will be effective from this week. Eithad Airways will launch its first flight to Chicago on Sep 2.
 
This pact is also aimed at enhancing ...

iCargo, a cargo management solution from Thiruvananthapuram-based IBS Software, has been implemented Russian airline company S7 Cargo.
 
S7 Cargo, that has its headquarters at Moscow, owns S7 Airlines and Globus Airline.
 
According to IBS, iCargo offers an "integrated, solution ...

India’s private carrier Jet Airways is all set to launch a daily flight on the Hyderabad-Dubai sector from Aug 16.
 
The new flight will use the Boeing 737-800 aircraft. This will be first international service of Jet Airways from Hyderabad and its second daily service between Dubai ...

According to sources, the airline industry has witnessed a dip of 4.9% in the number of passengers during January 2009 to July 2009. This year the total passengers stood at 2.48 crore whereas it was about 2.6 crore in the like period last year.
 
Private carrier Jet Airways and its low-cost ...

Roger Rose has been chosen as the CEO of Lockheed Martin India. He will be responsible for the coordination of global relationships of the aerospace giant and ongoing programme execution in India.
 
Rose will be taking over Douglas Hartwick, who has led the corporation's New Delhi office ...

Nordic carrier Finnair will restart its operations from Mumbai to Europe from Oct 18, with a brand new fleet of Airbus aircraft. This decision was taken after it saw a revival in passenger demand after some trying times over the past year.
 
The inaugural tariff is Rs.29,900 for an ...

Dubai’s first low coast air carrier, Flydubai, has plans to enlarge its network in Africa. For this, it will be announcing flights to Djibouti that will be effective from Sep 1.
 
"Djibouti is an important trading destination with established commercial links with Dubai, most ...

The representatives of India's crisis-ridden aviation industry met Civil Aviation Minister Praful Patel to provide them with a reduction in airport charges and jet fuel taxes.
 
The Federation of Indian Airlines (FIA has been requesting the government to help the industry tide over the ...

According to Union Civil Aviation Minister, Praful Patel, the aviation industry’s demand for reducing the sales tax on aviation fuel is not feasible and he added that that it was an issue which has to be handled by the state governments.
 
"This issue comes under the purview of ...

Air Canada has reported a profit of $155 million for 2009-10 Q1 which is about 27% up from 2008-09 Q2.
 
The airline has also reported the gains on foreign exchange as $355 million which during 2008-09 Q2 was $48 million.
 
The revenue of the air carrier has come down by 16% to $2.06 ...

Air India Express, the low cost carrier wing of Air India, has plans to launch its domestic operations with 27 daily flights from mid-September. According to sources, it has plans to increase it to 75 later.
 
"This will improve our bottomline. We expect to benefit Rs.180-200 ...

Jet Airways launched its first flight from Mumbai to Saudi Arabian capital Riyadh on Thursday.
 
Riyadh became Jet's second destination in Saudi Arabia after Jeddah. This is also Jet’s eighth destination in the Gulf after Kuwait, Bahrain, Muscat, Doha, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Jeddah and ...

Spice Jet, which currently operates flights to 18 cities, has added 23 more connections within its existing network. The airline reported this on Thursday.
 
The new destinations include Ahmedabad, Coimbatore and Bagdogra which can be reached using interconnecting flights within the Spice ...

Etihad Airways will be starting flights between Abu Dhabi and Hyderabad from November.
 
The non-stop flight will be launched by this Abu Dhabi-based airline will for four times a week service from November and it would become daily from 2010.
 
James Hogan, Etihad Airways' chief ...

India’s private air-carrier, Kingfisher Airlines, witnessed a net loss of about Rs.1,608.09 crore for the 2008-09 fiscal, but said it has plans to raise Rs.500 crore from the equity market.
 
The employees cost was Rs.823.85 crore last fiscal, while the expenditure on aviation fuel and ...

An increase of 9% has been witnessed by Etihad Airways, an airline of UAE in July 09, making a total of 616,000 passengers when compared to July 08.
 
The 31st of July 09 was the busiest day in its five year history with about 21,640 passengers flew by Etihad. The last week of July saw an ...

According to Civil Aviation Minister, the government has no plans of retrenchment and early retirement scheme for the employees working in the civil aviation sector.
 
"There are approximately 52,042 employees working in the civil aviation sector in the attached/autonomous/public sector ...