Chennai: A Chinese national was interrogated yester by police here after they seized a drone which he allegedly tried to fly in Marina beach without permission.The man, an employee of a private firm at nearby
New Delhi: The doors are finally going to be shut on the defunct Kingfisher Airlines as the two-year term to renew its Air Operator Permit expires on December 31 midnight.The Vijay Mallya promoted full service
New Delhi: Eighteen pilots, including a female, of various airline services in India were found positive in the pre-flight test conducted in November this year.As a matter of concern, almost all of them were captains
New Delhi: The civil aviation regulator has ordered all the airlines to deploy CAT-III complaint plane and crew trained to fly under low visibility conditions while operating in and out of IGI airport here in
New Delhi: Suffering a total liability of about Rs 2,000 crore, beleaguered no-frill carrier SpiceJet today approached the government and sought urgent financial help to run its daily operations.Top officials of the airline met Minister
New Delhi: Government has ruled out any bail-out measure to cash-strapped budget carrier SpiceJet.Civil Aviation Minister Ashok Gajapathy Raju also justified the actions taken by the Directorate General of Civil Aviation against the airline including
New Delhi: Concerned over the deteriorating condition of SpiceJet and large-scale flight cancellations, aviation regulator Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) yesterday withdrew 186 of its slots and asked it to clear salary dues of
Mumbai: Slamming a DGCA directive to airlines to collect “donations” from passengers for cleanliness drive at airports and aircraft, the apex air travellers body today urged the aviation ministry to withdraw the decree at the
New Delhi: Intensifying evacuation efforts from flood-ravaged Jammu and Kashmir, Air India and other carriers today flew over 500 passengers, including about 200 engineering students, here from Srinagar and Leh and carried tonnes of relief
New Delhi: Hours after AirAsia India launched its maiden flight, Tata Sons, a stakeholder in the carrier, today accused “vested interests, inimical to free and fair competition” of “spreading canards to jeopardise the operations”.The Tatas,
New Delhi: BJP leader Subramanian Swamy today moved the Election Commission urging it to put on hold the issuance of Air Operator's Permit (AOP) by aviation regulator DGCA to AirAsia India till the next government
New Delhi: After a long wait and legal hurdles, new airline AirAsia India was today granted the flying licence by aviation regulator DGCA, subject to the final outcome of cases opposing grant of the permit
New Delhi: Continuing his tirade against proposed carriers AirAsia India and Tata-SIA Airlines, BJP leader Subramanian Swamy has urged the Election Commission to restrain DGCA from giving flying licences to them till a new Government
New Delhi: AirAsia (India) is now expected to start commercial operations from June this year. Regulatory formalities, a “proving flight” with officials of the Directorate General of Civil Aviation onboard the airline's first Airbus A320,
New Delhi: A full-fledged bar aboard a private plane and a bottle in another led to the grounding of the two charter aircraft by the DGCA at the Delhi airport today, with the aviation regulator
New Delhi: ‘Please put your mobile phones on the flight mode'. Now on, you may hear an airhostess announcing this before your flight takes off instead of asking you to switch it off!!This has now
New Delhi: With the DGCA cracking the whip on air charter firms flouting safety norms, the companies busy flying politicians for poll campaign would now report to the aviation regulator on operational issues once every
New Delhi: Concerned over disruption of flights during fog season, aviation regulator DGCA today started examining issues to make Delhi airport a “zero diversionary” one by the year-end.A technical committee, headed by DGCA's Joint Director
Bangalore: Over 100 people on board an Indigo flight from Delhi had a miraculous escape when the aircraft landed here at Bengaluru International Airport amidst heavy rain and hit the runway lights, deflating its tyres.
New Delhi: A series of policy measures by the DGCA have led Indian airlines and airports to significantly reduce carbon emissions despite a major growth in air traffic, according to the latest survey by the
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