The state-run airline, Air India will soon resume its flight services between Mumbai and Hubballi. The airline started its flight service in this route back on January 20, 2020, but two months down the line, the service had to stop because of the global pandemic. But according to a PTI report, Air India is all set to resume the flight service from February 16, 2021. The airline will be using... Read More
India’s number one low-cost airline, IndiGo has announced multiple new direct flights for the residents of Kurnool. For the unaware, Kurnool is a district of Andra Pradesh. The new direct flights will connect the citizens of Kurnool with three major cities of India namely Bangalore, Chennai, and Andhra Pradesh. The Andhra Pradesh government has decided that Kurnool will be the Judiciary capital of the state. All the three new direct... Read More
IndiGo operates flights to multiple destinations across India. Earlier when the government asked the airlines to shut down their operations temporarily because of lockdown, IndiGo had to stop all of its flight services completely. It included the Mysore-Hyderabad flight. When the domestic flights were resumed after a break of two months; on May 25, 2020, airlines were only allowed to operate a small number of flights. Thus IndiGo couldn’t provide... Read More
The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) recently gave a green flag to the Vijayawada Airport for utilising its expanded runway for landing and taking-off of flights. The Vijayawada International Airport located in Gannavaram will now be able to use the expanded runway for operating flights which was completed after undergoing construction for 24 months. However, the flight take-off and landing won’t start right away at the concerned runway. As... Read More
SpiceJet has announced six new flights to ‘Darbhanga’. It is the airline’s 13th destination under UDAN, a government’s scheme to connect India. These are all daily flights which will connect Darbhanga from Delhi, Mumbai, and Bangalore. It is worthy to note that SpiceJet is the first and online airline to connect Darbhanga from Delhi, Mumbai, and Bangalore. These new flights will start on November 8, 2020. Bookings for the new... Read More
The number one airline of India, IndiGo is giving passengers discounts when they book their meals beforehand from the airline’s website. Passengers can enjoy up to 15% discount when they pre-book their meals with IndiGo 6E tiffin. There are meals starting from Rs 150 which can be bought directly from the website of the airline. The thing to note here would be that these meals can’t be booked from any... Read More
Trujet, a regional carrier promoted by Hyderabad-based Turbo Megha Airways, last month has announced the addition of Bidar in Karnataka to its network of 'UDAN' services. It has become the first air carrier to connect to Bidar airport in Karnataka on 7 February. This take’s Trujet’s flight connectivity to Regional Connectivity Scheme (RCS) airports upto 65 percent and Bidar becomes the 24th station in Trujet’s network. Karnataka Chief Minister Yeddyurappa inaugurated the... Read More
Commercial operations at Delhi’s Hindon air base to begin from July first week. Night operations will remain banned for now due to the movements of Nilgai on the airstrip, a report by Zee Business claimed. The flights from Hindon airport will mostly serve regional destinations and will be functioning under the Regional Connectivity Scheme of the Government ‘’Ude Desh Ka Aam Nagrik’ (UDAN). Under the rules of the UDAN scheme,... Read More
Last financial year wasn’t necessarily the best one for the Indian aviation industry. The sector saw some serious losses and hurt financials because of the fuel and operating costs. The situation was severe enough to push a major airline out of operations as well. The full-service carrier, which is the joint venture between Tata and Singapore Airlines, Vistara has also joined the the league in reporting slightly disappointing financials. Vistara... Read More
The budget airline SpiceJet is adding 100th aircraft to its fleet, making it the fourth airline to do so after Air India, IndiGo, and the now-defunct Jet Airways. According to a media release from the airline, SpiceJet has added 23 airlines in the last month. Who could have thought that from the brink of closure in December 2014, SpiceJet would have a 100-aircraft fleet in 2019, SpiceJet Chairman and Managing... Read More
Lok Sabha members from North Kerala has raised various concerns regarding the ticket pricing, non-availability of flights to certain areas, etc. to the aviation minister Hardeep S. Puri in a meeting held in Delhi. One of the major issues discussed was the pricing anomaly practised by Air India. The airline adopts a dynamic pricing system for the tickets, where the airline will charge higher fares if the journey date is... Read More
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
The Chief Minister of Himachal Pradesh Jairam Thakur has requested the N. K. Singh, the Finance Commission Chairman, to sanction Rs 2000 crores grant for the state, for construction of the international airport at Mandi district. He also discussed other priorities and need for funds for various development activities at the state. According to Thakur, the Airports Authority of India (AAI) has already completed the technical survey related to Obstacle... Read More
Turbo Megha Airways that operates Trujet plans to increase its fleet size and expand service areas by the end of 2019. The airline has decided to add ten ATR 72 aircraft and ten more destinations by the end of this year. Currently, TruJet operates five ATR-72 planes to 20 destinations across India. The airline holds the largest share of its capacity deployed on UDAN routes. Over the past four years,... Read More
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