Qatar Airways, a renowned airline of the middle-east has resumed flying services to Multan, Pakistan. Multan is the sixth destination of Qatar Airways in the country. The airline said in a statement that it will resume flying to Multan from February 22, 2022, with three weekly flights increasing to four weekly flights from March 27, 2022. Qatar Airways will be using the Airbus A320 for the route which has a... Read More
The apron and taxiway extension work at Rourkela airport is getting delayed raising apprehensions about whether the facility will be ready for operations before Men’s Hockey World Cup, scheduled to be held from January 13-29 2023, at Odisha. A tender of an estimated value of Rs 5.69 crore was awarded to Ranchi-based RK Mishra and Co in June 2021 to construct a new apron and taxiway at Rourkela airport. Since... Read More
Vistara has announced that Vinod Kannan has taken over as the airline’s Chief Executive Officer (CEO). Kannan succeeded Leslie Thng, who served as CEO from July 16, 2017, to December 31, 2021, according to a statement from the carrier. “I am honoured to be given the opportunity to carry forward the momentum that Mr Leslie Thng has built during his time at Vistara. I look forward to continuing strengthening Vistara’s... Read More
Following the footsteps of AirAsia and SpiceJet, IndiGo has also announced a special all-inclusive tariff for tickets starting at Rs 1122 for domestic flyers. “We heard about your travel plans for 2022! And we’re celebrating with the best offers for you,” IndiGo tweeted about special ticket sales from its official Twitter handle. IndiGo's New Year offer is applicable for the bookings done from December 27, 2021, and December 31, 2021.... Read More
Singapore Airlines (SIA) will re-deploy its Airbus A380 Superjumbo aircraft to India in a phased manner. Starting January 10, 2022, airline’s Airbus A380 Superjumbo will replace the Airbus A350-900 flight that operate between Mumbai – Singapore. From February 14, 2022, Singapore Airlines will operate Airbus A380 aircraft in place of the Boeing 787-10 flight flying between Delhi and Singapore. The flag carrier airline of Singapore conducts passenger services from eight... Read More
Qatar may lease Boeing 777-300ERs from Cathay Pacific in early 2022, according to a tweet from a tipster @AirlineFlyer. Qatar Airways has to ground its twenty A350 fleet due to fuselage issues, and it owns a stake in Cathay Pacific, so the scenario is highly possible. The airline may fly these aircraft from Doha to Hong Kong and Male. A seat map revealed by the tipster shows a four-class seat... Read More
OGMA, an Embraer Group company has just signed a new contract with Pratt & Whitney for providing GTF engine maintenance service. With this agreement, it has been settled that Portugal will provide maintenance for the PW1900G engine that currently powers the Embraer E190-E2 and E195-E2 aircraft. It is worth noting that this is not the first partnership between the two companies. Back in November 2020, OGMA was declared as an... Read More
Qatar Airways, one of the renowned airlines across the globe operated its first flight from Doha to Almaty, Kazakhstan on November 19, 2021. The airline used an Airbus A320 aircraft for the route. Going forward, the new direct service of the airline in the concerned route will be operated with the Airbus A320 only. In the said aircraft, there are 120 Economy Class seats as we as 12 Business Class... Read More
The ongoing Dubai Airshow seems to be turning out more and more fruitful for aircraft manufacturing giant Airbus as it seems to be getting a lot of business from around the world. One of the latest deals with Kuwait’s Jazeera Airways has reportedly been made to sell 28 aircraft to the airlines and the deal is valued at around $3.3 billion. A per the reports the deal includes the acquisition... Read More
IndiGo, India’s number one low-cost airline is gearing up to compete with the other airlines. Especially in the wake of Tata Group acquiring Air India (AI), IndiGo has become cautious of the competition that’s going to rise furiously. With time, another ultra-low-cost airline backed by Rakesh Jhunjhunwala, Akasa, will make its entry into the market. To keep competing furiously with these airlines, IndiGo is working on upgrading its aircraft. The... Read More
Vistara, a premium full-service airline owned by Tata Sons and Singapore Airlines, won’t be able to operate flights to the United States (US) any time soon. Had Vistara flew to the US, it would have become the second airline in India to fly to the destination. But the airline’s plans have hit a snag. According to a Livemint report, the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has not given its approval... Read More
While the aviation sector slowed down in 2020 because of the pandemic, India became the biggest customer for Airbus. The credit will largely go to IndiGo which replaced multiple old A320/21neos with newer engines and didn’t default on the payments. India was only behind China in terms of recovering domestic travel in the country. Lakhs of passengers and flights took to the skies following the pandemic protocol set by airlines... Read More
A few days back, Vistara announced that it would start flying to Sharjah, United Arab Emirates (UAE) from January 20, 2021, and it has kept that promise. In a release, the airline confirmed its first flight in the Delhi-Sharjah route today. All the flights in the upcoming days on the route will be operated under the air bubble agreement between India and UAE. Sharjah will mark the airline’s second destination... Read More
While the pandemic resulted in airlines shutting down all over the world, it also made way for new companies and airlines to jump in the aviation industry. Now, India is all set to get another domestic airline, namely ‘Flybig’. Flybig will start its domestic operations in the country from tomorrow, i.e., January 3, 2021. The first flight of Flybig will depart from Indore, the base of the airline, at 2:30... Read More
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