The Civil Aviation Minister Praful Patel on Monday has ruled out assistance for the private air carriers as well as for the state-owned carrier Air India. This announcement came a day after the strike was called off by the private air carriers.
 
"There is no question of a financial ...

The Federation of Indian Airlines had earlier mentioned that the private air carriers would not fly on Aug 18 if the government did not announce a rescue package to help increasing ongoing crisis which they claim has escalated their collective losses to over $2 billion.
 
But, the ...

The Emirates Airline, is now the world's largest operator of Boeing 777 planes with the arrival of its 78th aircraft of 777-300ER series that is configured for long distance journeys.
 
According to Tim Clark, president of the airline, the Boeing 777s form the backbone of the airline's ...

Jet Airways, the private air carrier of India, will be launching its Mumbai to Riyadh flight on Aug 6.
 
"The airline will launch four services a week on the Mumbai-Riyadh sector - on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays," Jet said in a statement.
 
Riyadh is the ...

Uniglobe Travel, a travel management organization, on Wednesday launched a carbon offset programme in India that will allow air travellers to purchase carbon credits to reduce the environmental impact of their travel.
 
Uniglobe and CarbonNeutral Co, a global carbon management firm, has ...

Budget carrier SpiceJet on Tuesday reported net profits of Rs.263.42 million for the first quarter of this fiscal, against a loss of Rs.1.29 billion in the like quarter of 2008-09, despite some trying times for the aviation sector.
 
The company's total income also registered a 10.55% ...

Even though Boeing Co. has reported better-than-expected second-quarter results it has but failed to answer when its troubled 787 Dreamliner, 27 of which have been ordered by Air India, will fly for the first time.
 
According to Chairman and Chief Executive, Jim McNerney , Boeing has ...

Emirates Airlines, the national air carrier of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), has plans for increasing the number of its flights to Angola and South Africa by the end of this year. The company will organise promotional activities in both the countries ahead of the launch.
 
Flights to the ...

According to Boeing Co, Air India has not deferred or cancelled any of the orders it has placed.
 
"We have not received any such proposals from Air India so far. But Jet Airways has rescheduled the delivery of two Boeing-333 aircraft," Boeing India president Dinesh Keskar told ...

Jet Airways, one of the India’s private air carriers, is all set to launch the daily services on the Kochi-Sharjah route from Sep 1.This will be Jet's fourth daily flight to the Gulf from Kochi.
 
At present, Jet has daily services to Doha, Kuwait and Muscat from Kochi.
 
The ...

Kingfisher Airlines, owned by Vijay Mallya,  has to pay over Rs 950 crore to the government oil companies for the jet fuel bills. This information was given by the Petroleum minister Murli Deora, on Monday.
 
Kingfisher owed "Rs 37.36 crore to Indian Oil Corp, Rs 598.78 crore ...

Praful Patel, the Civil Aviation Minister, said on Tuesday that he would meet Prime Minister Manmohan Singh this week to discuss the appointment of independent directors to the board of Air India in a bid to revive the ailing national carrier.
 
"I will be discussing names of eminent ...

The German air carrier, Lufthansa, has some new plans for Indian travellers. Even though it is waiting for the nod for Airbus A-380, into Delhi, the airline has reduced the number of business seats in the Boeing 747s. This is in response to the giving up business class by the international ...

Emirates Airlines’ super-jumbo double-decker is to make its maiden flight from Dubai to Birmingham in September. The plane will have the world's first on board shower spas.
 
The super-jumbo A380 will serve the passenger in the sector just for a single day - Sep 9, 2009 - in what is ...

The Integrated Defence Systems of Boeing said on Wednesday that it is cutting 1,000 jobs to accommodate the drop in demand in the federal defence budget.T he lost jobs represent about 1.5  of the 70,000 employees in the defence branch.
 
Branch chief Jim Albaugh told Boeing employees ...

Chandigarh will come on the international aviation map from August, said a top Punjab government official here on Wednesday.
 
"International flights from here will begin in August. Additional X-ray machines and other infrastructure will be installed this month," said Punjab Chief ...

With the fall in international prices of crude, nationalized oil companies on Wednesday slashed the aviation fuel prices by almost 6%. The new prices will be effective from Wednesday night and comes after four consecutive hikes.
 
Aviation fuel will now cost Rs.2,220 less per kilolitre. In ...

The realisation that only budget airlines will ensure an enhanced  passenger load, Air India has decided to come up with low cost air carriers which will be functional form September 2009.
 
This strategy of AI is aimed at tapping the peak travel season between the months of October ...

The low-cost carrier IndiGo is the most punctual of all the scheduled flights for the month of June, beating bigger carriers such as Jet Airways, Kingfisher Airlines and Air India, according to official data released on Monday.
 
According to the official data released by Civil Aviation ...

Kingfisher Airlines, the private player in air carriers, has plans for launching flights on 8 international routes in 2009.
 
"We have planned a roadmap for the next phase of international routes. We will start flying on the Mumbai-Hong Kong, Mumbai-Singapore sector by Sep 16," ...

According to the Economic Survey 2008-09 released on Thursday, the government had allocated about 105,298 seats on a weekly basis to the foreign airlines so that the connectivity of India with rest of the world will be enhanced during 2009-10 fiscal year. 


The designated carriers have ...

People going abroad from Punjab and Haryana need not catch flights from Delhi, as Chandigarh airport will be upgraded to an international airport. The first flight for Dubai will take off during end of July.

Sunil Dutt, director of Chandigarh airport, said that they have got confirmation from ...

The special cheap fares will apply for travel to Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai, Hyderabad and Bangalore. Tickets can be booked between June 27 and July 3 and will be valid up to Sep 10, an airline official said.

"This will help us improve our load factor during the monsoon season, which ...

The US- based travel portal Optiontown is offering the unique travel solution where a person having economy class air ticket can upgrade to first class by paying a nominal amount.
 
Optiontown has been quoted saying that the passengers can save up to 75 percent of the actual airfare if they ...

Air India will have to shed its full-carrier status and transform into a low-cost airline on most of the domestic routes to survive. Manmohan Singh on Wednesday met up with aviation ministry biggies to discuss the crunch faced by the national carrier. It is said that he has promised to lend support ...

A US district court in Washington State has summoned Air India in a multi-million dollar lawsuit filed by Anthony Keyter, former manager of Boeing. Keyter, has sought compensation and amends from Air India for allegedly violating aviation laws and affecting safety of the flight.
Keyter was posted ...

Air India is eyeing a bailout package of Rs 10,000-15,000 crore from the Indian Government. Top aviation ministry officials and Air India chief Arvind Jadhav met Civil Aviation Minster Praful Patel on Tuesday to discuss possible remedies to bailout the Maharaja.
Air India is in urgent need of ...

State-run carrier Air India has targeted slashing annual salary costs by Rs.500 crore, it said here Monday. 
 
Air India has appointed a four-member committee to examine existing wage agreements, including flying allowances and productivity-linked incentives, signed with the unions ...

A day after Air India asked its top executives to forgo their salary for July, the chairman and managing director of the state-run carrier, Arvind Jadhav, on Saturday appealed to all staff to "rise up to the challenge" and help the airline in its "fight for survival".

In a ...

The budget air carrier of India, SpiceJet, also increased the fuel charges by Rs. 400. This will be effective on the tickets which are bought from Thursday, the 18th of June, 2009.  The increase by SpiceJet came a day after the domestic airlines Jet Airways and Kingfisher Airlines had ...