Jyotiraditya Scindia

While launching the National Air Sports Policy 2022 (NASP), India’s first such mechanism, Scindia said the air sports market in the country generates revenues of around Rs 80 crore to Rs 100 crore at the moment

The newly-inaugurated flights include Delhi-Jabalpur-Bhopal-Gwalior (three days in a week) and Delhi-Jabalpur-Bilaspur-Bhopal (four days in a week).

New Delhi, May 17 Fees for drone pilot training course will decrease within the next 3-4 months as the number of schools providing this course are g..

Scindia said the civil aviation ministry has urged 12 ministries to use drones for various activities like mine and land surveys and agriculture

Aviation minister Jyotiraditya Scindia has promised to look into the matter of airlines charging extra to provide a hard copy of boarding pass to passengers.

Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia said he is examining the matter of airlines charging passengers a fee for issuing boarding passes at check-in counters inside the terminals.

The civil aviation minister has said drone manufacturing and services can grow to be an over Rs 30,000-crore industry

Jyotiraditya Scindia, who comes from the royal family of the Scindias, on Monday performed puja of the renovated bungalow allotted to him a few months back, along with his wife Priyadarshini Raje and son Mahanaryaman, BJP spokesman Pankaj Chaturvedi said.

Union Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia, who is on a nine-day visit to the US and Canada, met Canadian Transport Minister Omar Alghabra on Wednesday.

Under the PLI scheme that was announced last year, the incentive for a manufacturer of drones and drone components will be 20 per cent of the value addition made by the company during the next three years.

"Eight months ago, only 11 states had VAT rate ranging from 1-4 percent and a bulk of the states had rates ranging from 20-30 percent. Now 24 states levy VAT between 1-4 percent only," the minister said.

The Bureau of Civil Aviation Security (BCAS) had issued a circular on February 24, 2000 to enforce the rule, he said during the Question Hour.

Jyotiraditya Scindia also said that two new airlines -- the new avatar of Jet Airways and Akasa Air-- will take to the skies this year.

In a speech at an event of industry body CII, Jyotiraditya Scindia said, "I have very clearly mandated that we need to do a carbon-mapping exercise to understand what are our emissions — both direct and indirect.”

The travel recovery in India has already helped IndiGo, India’s top airline, and SpiceJet Ltd., both of which posted surprise profits in the quarter through December.

Exuding confidence about air traffic figures rebounding, Jyotiraditya Scindia said the number of domestic passengers is expected to touch 4.10 lakh per day by next year and will surpass that number by 2024-25 as the airline industry is in a "V" shaped recovery.

Responding to the debate on the Demands for Grants of the Civil Aviation Ministry in Lok Sabha, Jyotiraditya Scindia listed out the merger of Air India and Indian Airlines, purchase of 111 new aircraft and liberalisation of bilateral rights as the reasons for the downfall of the national carrier.

Replying to the Demands for Grants, 2022-23, for the Ministry of Civil Aviation Jyotiraditya Scindia said that the government has brought about a paradigm shift, a structural change in the sector in the last two years and it will focus on inclusion, access and affordablity to increase demand among common man.

Jyotiraditya Scindia also batted for increasing the share of women pilots in the country from 15 per cent to 50 per cent.

Due to the outbreak of COVID -19, scheduled international flight services were suspended on March 23, 2020. However, special international flights have been operating between India and about 35 other countries since July 2020 under air bubble.