July 16th, 2020 6:02 AM 3 COMMENTS

Air India and IndiGo Finish Trial Landing at Kannur International Airport

On Thursday, an Air India Express flight - Boeing 737/800 aircraft successfully landed at Kannur International Airport as part of its trial landing. Today, on Friday, IndiGo followed suit and landed its ATR 72 aircraft with 6 approaches for the DOVR check. Notably, Kannur airport had been undergoing preparations for the trial landing for quite a few weeks. After the initial rounds of testing and trials, the Kannur International Airport... Read More

July 16th, 2020 6:02 AM 0 COMMENTS

IndiGo Pilots Pushing the Engines to Full Throttles Might Be Causing Mid Air Glitches

IndiGo and GoAir are two of the most popular low cost carriers in India right now. IndiGo is of course the market leader and boasts of having the most market share right now, but there is one thing in which GoAir beats IndiGo and that is in the maintenance of its engine if a new report is to be believed. Both of these budget carriers use the same Pratt and... Read More

July 16th, 2020 6:02 AM 0 COMMENTS

Vistara Delhi and Dehradun Daily Flight Service From 29th March

Vistara, India's full-service carrier, added Dehradun, Uttarakhand to its network of operations. With this addition of a new city to its network, Dehradun becomes the 36th destination for the airline to operate. Customers from Dehradun can also take seamless connections through Delhi to other cities on Vistara's airway network. Frequency & Pricing of Operations The airline will operate daily flights between Delhi and Dehradun starting 29 March 2020. For customers... Read More

July 16th, 2020 6:01 AM 0 COMMENTS

IndiGo Adopts Eco-Friendly Initiatives to Save Fuel and Reduce Carbon Emission

IndiGo’s flight 6E 303 flying from Delhi to Hyderabad on April 29, 2019, flew using the concept of ‘Dispatch with no destination alternate’ saving fuel as well as the carbon emission, says a statement released by IndiGo Airlines. There is a regulation under the aviation laws that the airlines have to plan an alternate destination in addition to its actual destination, and carry additional fuel to fly to both the... Read More

July 16th, 2020 6:01 AM 0 COMMENTS

Air India Adds Two Additional Flights to Dubai From June 1

Air India has announced its plan to add two additional flights to Dubai from June 1. The new flights will benefit the passengers flying from India as there is a significant scarcity of flights to Dubai after the grounding of Jet Airways. Among the two new flights, one trip will operate from Delhi, and the other will be from Mumbai. Air India already has two flights to Dubai – a... Read More

July 16th, 2020 6:01 AM 0 COMMENTS

Scoot Launches Services To Singapore From Visakhapatnam And Coimbatore

Scoot Tigerair Pte Ltd, operating as Scoot, has launched services on Visakhapatnam – Singapore and Coimbatore – Singapore routes. There are five weekly services on Visakhapatnam – Singapore route, and daily flights between Coimbatore and Singapore. The service between Coimbatore and Singapore commenced on October 27, 2019. Scoot deploys narrow-body aircraft Airbus A320 on the routes. Ticket fare lower than most full-service carriers Besides the newly launched routes, Scoot’s service... Read More

July 16th, 2020 6:01 AM 0 COMMENTS

GoAir Begins International Service from Bangalore to Male and Phuket

Wadia group owned carrier, GoAir had recently announced the beginning of its international services from Bengaluru, and Sunday, December 9th marked the first day of GoAir’s international flight to Phuket and Male. The no-frills carrier, GoAir has been proclaimed to be the fastest growing carrier in the world right now and has also recently added the newly operational Kannur International Airport in its existing network as its 24th domestic destination.... Read More

July 16th, 2020 6:01 AM 0 COMMENTS

AirAsia India Goa, Chennai Flights From Mumbai To Start From October 27

India’s budget carrier AirAsia India has announced flight services to Goa and Chennai from Mumbai, starting from October 27, 2019. The airline has also increased the frequency between Mumbai and Delhi to four times a day. Commenting on the new service, Sanjay Kumar, Chief Operating Officer of AirAsia India said, “We recently set up Mumbai as our fourth hub and have now increased frequency to Delhi from the city to... Read More

July 16th, 2020 6:01 AM 0 COMMENTS

GoAir Starts Deploying TaxiBots at IGI Airport New Delhi for Better Fuel Efficiency and Checking Sound Pollution

In order to save on fuels and also keep a check on sound pollution, more and more airlines are opting for TaxiBots as their choice of towing vehicle. In a new development in this regard, GoAir, the no frills carrier has decided to deploy the semi-robotic-pilot-operated TaxiBots as its choice of towing vehicle at the Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGIA) in New Delhi. Currently, the conventional method dictates that the... Read More

July 16th, 2020 5:59 AM 0 COMMENTS

Air India Adopts Steps to Make Its Grounded Planes Operational, Earmarks INR 500 Crore for the Purpose

To raise the market share and to take advantage of the holiday season, Air India has decided to make its grounded aircraft operational. For the purpose, the national air carrier has earmarked a total of INR 500 crores. Air India has around 19 aircraft grounded due to various reasons. Many of them require expensive spare parts and solving of technical glitches. About ten of the grounded aircraft are Airbus A320... Read More

July 16th, 2020 5:59 AM 0 COMMENTS

Air India Express to Adopt Taxibots in IGI Airport

Air India Express has completed the trials for using Taxibots at the Indira Gandhi International (IGI) airport on Monday. As a part of the trial, Air India Express Boeing 737-800 NG series aircraft was taxied from Apron 3 towards Runway 29. Each taxiing event of about 15 minutes with Taxibot attached saves about 200 litres of Aviation Turbine fuel. In addition to this, it saves engine life plus emission of... Read More

July 16th, 2020 5:59 AM 0 COMMENTS

Vistara Announces Its 4th International Destination With Mumbai-Colombo Route

India’s full-service airline, Vistara has set new standards in the aviation industry in India. The airline operates in 34 destinations, flies more than 200 flights a day with a fleet of 23 Airbus A320s and 9 Boeing 737-800NG aircraft, and has already flown more than 18 million customers since starting operations. Today the airline has announced Colombo as its 4th international destination in their rapidly growing operations. As part of... Read More

July 16th, 2020 5:59 AM 0 COMMENTS

After DGCA, European Aviation Regulator Also Issues Warning on P&W Engines

India’s Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) is not the only aviation regulatory authority to have found snags with the A320neo and A320 Pratt & Whitney engines which have been making headlines for all the wrong reasons. Across the world, the Pratt & Whitney engines have been facing mid-air engine failures and the authorities are looking into the matter. As per a new mint report, the European Union Aviation Safety... Read More

July 16th, 2020 5:59 AM 0 COMMENTS

No Dilution of Air Safety and Standards, Says Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri

The Ministry of Civil Aviation will not tolerate anything that compromises on air safety and standards, Union Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri said. Minister was speaking at the 12th International Conference on Civil Aviation and Cargo, organised by ASSOCHAM (Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry) in New Delhi. “The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) knows its job. I do not know what the DGCA had been doing earlier,... Read More

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