DGCA begins 2-month special audit of airlines following technical malfunction incidents
India | July 24, 2022 11:21 ISTThe DGCA officials said the special audit will be completed within the next two months.
The DGCA officials said the special audit will be completed within the next two months.
DGCA said that after frequent reports of engineering-related occurrences in several airlines, it has conducted several spot checks in order to ensure that airlines are adhering to the laid down standards.
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In a statement on Monday, Akasa Air said the uniform fit focuses on providing the best possible stretch to ensure their comfort over their busy flight schedules.
International Air Transport Association (IATA) represents some 290 airlines comprising 83 per cent of global air traffic.
The cancellations came less than three weeks after airlines kicked off the summer travel season by canceling about 2,800 flights in a five-day stretch around the Memorial Day holiday weekend.
The airline's chief executive Vijay Dube said on Friday that they are working with the Ministry of Civil Aviation (MoCA) and Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) to get the required clearances for commencing the air operations.
The Mumbai-based airline, Akasa Air, received the mandatory no-objection certificate from the civil aviation ministry in October last year. Once the aircraft is inducted, then the airline has to conduct a set of successful proving flights.
Passengers sustained injuries as cabin baggage fell on many of them, leading to head injuries to several flyers.
It wasn't clear what the rules are and what prompted the change, but it comes as China tightens its already strict COVID-19 travel restrictions in the face of a growing outbreak in the city of Xi'an.
Japan banned all foreign visitors starting Tuesday. The government also asked its citizens arriving in the country to quarantine for up to 14 days.
This comes a day after PIA, the national carrier of Pakistan, had suspended its operation in Kabul citing "security reasons".
The order released by the Aviation ministry also stated that the fare band will only be applicable for 15 days and that the airlines are not required to stick to the fare band for the remaining 15 days of the month.
The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) said on Twitter that metasearch engines at times do make combinations of multiple airlines -- when a passenger is looking for point-to-point travel -- and end up with an exaggerated figure of airfare.
Star Air said it will be its "privilege to offer our Tokyo Olympic champions a lifetime of free air travel".
Billionaire investor Rakesh Jhunjhunwala investor will be launching an ultra-low-cost airline to be called Akasa Air, with an investment of $35 million.
The carriers have been operating only 50 per cent of their pre-Covid domestic flights since June 1 in accordance with a May 28 order of the ministry.
A brief timeline of the insolvency resolution process of Jet Airways, which started off as an air tax operator in 1993 and became a scheduled carrier in 1995.
The Union Home Ministry said that due to the non-availability of normal commercial flight operations on account of the pandemic since March, 2020, a number of foreign nationals who came to India prior to that date on valid Indian visas got stranded in the country.
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