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  • Fewer flights, higher fares: Should DGCA make airlines fly more? May 30, 2023 09:34 AM IST

    Fewer flights, higher fares: Should DGCA make airlines fly more?

    While the DGCA cannot ask the airlines to review fares, it can ensure that the capacity deployment conforms to the schedules submitted and approved by the regulator

  • Go First and beyond: Is Indian aviation going the telecom way? May 30, 2023 06:29 AM IST

    Go First and beyond: Is Indian aviation going the telecom way?

    Historically, any airline that has suspended operations in India has never restarted.

  • Go First offers pilots Rs 1 lakh in addition to monthly salary in bid to retain them May 29, 2023 04:20 PM IST

    Go First offers pilots Rs 1 lakh in addition to monthly salary in bid to retain them

    The airline has also offered to roll out the retention allowance for pilots who have recently resigned, but are willing to withdraw their resignations by June 15.

  • Go First working on plan to resume flights at the earliest: Official May 24, 2023 07:30 AM IST

    Go First working on plan to resume flights at the earliest: Official

    The carrier is undergoing insolvency resolution proceedings following admission of its voluntary plea by the NCLT on May 10.

  • Air India, Air India Express to operate special Haj flights May 22, 2023 03:57 PM IST

    Air India, Air India Express to operate special Haj flights

    The two carriers will fly close to 19,000 pilgrims to Jeddah and Medina in Saudi Arabia from the four cities.

  • Go First extends suspension of flight operations till May 26 May 17, 2023 10:18 PM IST

    Go First extends suspension of flight operations till May 26

    Go First, which is undergoing insolvency resolution proceedings, stopped flying from May 3.

  • Go First to resume flights on May 24 with reduced schedule, aircraft: Report May 10, 2023 11:11 PM IST

    Go First to resume flights on May 24 with reduced schedule, aircraft: Report

    The airline has worked on a business plan to restart with 23 aircraft but with a smaller operation.

  • Delhi-bound flight cancelled due to technical snag, TN CM Stalin postpones visit to New Delhi April 27, 2023 11:00 PM IST

    Delhi-bound flight cancelled due to technical snag, TN CM Stalin postpones visit to New Delhi

    The private carrier was cancelled due to the technical snag following which the Chief Minister returned home.

  • Etihad CEO counts on India as third largest aviation market in 4 years April 28, 2023 06:49 AM IST

    Etihad CEO counts on India as third largest aviation market in 4 years

    The plan is "chart 20 percent growth in India in the next year, and then grow further", said Antonoaldo Neves, who has been heading the UAE national airline since October last year.

  • High import duty, resumption of flights lead to rise in gold smuggling April 27, 2023 04:45 PM IST

    High import duty, resumption of flights lead to rise in gold smuggling

    Government agencies have detected numerous cases of attempts being made to smuggle in gold and silver. Between April 2022 and February 2023, 3,992 kg of smuggled gold was seized as compared to 2,172 kg in 2021-22.

  • Why flying is so expensive and likely to remain that way April 27, 2023 08:39 AM IST

    Why flying is so expensive and likely to remain that way

    For one, there’s a lack of planes. Airlines idled large portions of their fleets because travel demand was so lackluster during the pandemic that they weren’t needed. Now they can’t bring them back fast enough — it takes 100 working hours to ready the biggest jets for service after being parked away.

  • Air India adds more flights to Dubai from Delhi and Mumbai April 26, 2023 01:58 PM IST

    Air India adds more flights to Dubai from Delhi and Mumbai

    Air India will operate up to 10 daily flights between Delhi and Dubai, including a new flight that starts on April 29. Between Mumbai and Dubai, the carrier will operate up to six daily flights

  • Fly Dubai flight catches fire after take-off from Kathmandu April 24, 2023 10:58 PM IST

    Fly Dubai flight catches fire after take-off from Kathmandu

    Shortly after the mid-air fire incident was reported, the Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal said the flight "is normal now" and "proceeding towards its destination Dubai".

  • Increasing number of brick kilns around Srinagar airport pose risk to flights April 05, 2023 03:34 PM IST

    Increasing number of brick kilns around Srinagar airport pose risk to flights

    The black fumes emanating from the furnaces of these brick kilns have prompted the authorities at the Air Force Station, Srinagar, to shoot a letter to the civilian administration to stop these activities.

  • India's astonishing rise in foreign travel spending: From $11 million a year to a billion a month March 23, 2023 10:58 PM IST

    India's astonishing rise in foreign travel spending: From $11 million a year to a billion a month

    Despite an overall increase in travel costs, the easing of the Covid pandemic has led to a surge in demand for foreign travel. Indians are on track to spend twice as much as this year they did over the whole of the 2021-22 financial year.

  • Turkish Airlines CEO requests govt to increase flights between India and Turkey March 21, 2023 03:01 PM IST

    Turkish Airlines CEO requests govt to increase flights between India and Turkey

    Turkish Airlines is looking to start flights to six new destinations in India, including Ahmedabad and Chennai.

  • Air India to temporarily reduce flights on some US routes: CEO March 20, 2023 03:17 PM IST

    Air India to temporarily reduce flights on some US routes: CEO

    Six weekly flights to the US, three each to Newark and San Francisco will be trimmed.

  • DGCA announces 4.4% increase in summer schedule flights to 22,907 March 17, 2023 07:12 PM IST

    DGCA announces 4.4% increase in summer schedule flights to 22,907

    Of the 110 airports, Jeypore, Cooch Behar, Hollongi, Jamshedpur, Pakyong and Mopa (Goa) are the new airports proposed by the scheduled airlines.

  • Airline sectors that could face pressure from the expressway network March 02, 2023 03:30 PM IST

    Airline sectors that could face pressure from the expressway network

    A share of the traffic could shift to alternative modes, leading to reduced frequency of flights. At the same time, this will free up slots to expand to newer markets, which may not have been possible earlier due to slot constraints.

  • After IndiGo, Go First special fare sale—domestic flights starting at Rs 1,199, international at Rs 6,139 February 23, 2023 05:38 PM IST

    After IndiGo, Go First special fare sale—domestic flights starting at Rs 1,199, international at Rs 6,139

    The sale ends February 24, while the travel period will run from March 12 to September 30, 2023

  • Airlines cancel over 1,300 US flights as winter storm grips states February 23, 2023 07:01 AM IST

    Airlines cancel over 1,300 US flights as winter storm grips states

    A total of 1,327 flights within, into and out of the United States were canceled by 12:30 p.m. ET, according to flight-tracking website FlightAware, which also showed 2,030 flights were delayed.

  • Seven flights cancelled in Northeast due to poor visibility February 22, 2023 09:45 PM IST

    Seven flights cancelled in Northeast due to poor visibility

    The flights from Guwahati to Tezu and Tezu to Guwahati were cancelled due to low visibility, mainly over Guwahati sky, the official told PTI.

  • Air passengers face flight diversions, delays as thick fog engulfs Delhi February 22, 2023 05:42 PM IST

    Air passengers face flight diversions, delays as thick fog engulfs Delhi

    A total of seven flights have been diverted from Delhi so far; departures have also been slow since morning as only CAT 3-equipped airplanes can fly in this weather.

  • Air India's New York-Delhi flight diverted to London due to 'medical emergency' February 20, 2023 09:14 PM IST

    Air India's New York-Delhi flight diverted to London due to 'medical emergency'

    The flight, AI-102, was above the Norwegian airspace when the pilots had to direct it towards London's Heathrow airport for an emergency landing.

  • Thousands of flights canceled as German airport staff strike February 17, 2023 03:13 PM IST

    Thousands of flights canceled as German airport staff strike

    The strikes at seven German airports, including Frankfurt, Munich and Hamburg, affected almost 300,000 passengers and forced airlines to cancel more than 2,300 flights.