Category Archives: Aviation

• Second phase of RCS to connected unserved routes

  Posted on May 24, 2017 by Diligentia News in Aviation.

  The ministry has proposed to expand the regional connectivity scheme to unserved routes in the second phase of regional connectivity scheme. “There are various routes like Lucknow-Varanasi, where there is no connectivity. During the second phase, we are expanding it to unserved routes too,” said aviation secretary R N Choubey. He further added that the […]

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• Holiday travel turns cheap, airlines offering flights for as low as Rs 11

  Posted on May 24, 2017 by Diligentia News in Aviation.

  To counter SpiceJetBSE 0.67 % anniversary sale, Indigo, Jet AirwaysBSE -1.15 % and other airlines have also announced discount fare offers for the flier on select destinations and select period. Here are the details of the sale offers by airlines: SpiceJet : The airline has announced a sale with ticket price starting as low as […]

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• GMR Hyderabad airport to see ₹2,500-cr capacity expansion

  Posted on May 23, 2017 by Diligentia News in Aviation.

  GMR Hyderabad International Airport Ltd is poised for a capital expenditure of about ?2,500 crore towards expansion of the greenfiled airport from the present capacity to handle 12 million passengers per annum to 20 mppa. The airport is already functioning at more than its capacity to handle about a million passengers a month with 2016 […]

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• Airlines’ on-time performance data on DGCA radar

  Posted on May 23, 2017 by Diligentia News in Aviation.

  The Directorate General of Civil Aviation will direct Indian carriers to install the Aircraft Communications Addressing and Reporting System (ACARS) on all their planes to ensure that the on-time performance (OTP) they report is authentic. The step is being recommended by a committee headed by joint director-general Lalit Gupta that was formed to look into […]

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• View: Forget disinvestment, government should privatise Air India

  Posted on May 23, 2017 by Diligentia News in Aviation.

  Even as several analysts have recommended the privatisation of Air India, it has been reported that the Union government is considering disinvestment as a means of improving the finances of the so-called ‘national carrier’. ET’s columnist Swaminathan Aiyar, writing in the Times of India ( ‘The Maharaja’s Worse Than Mallya’ ) has very aptly suggested […]

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• Air India plans to raise Rs 80 crore through sale of assets

  Posted on May 23, 2017 by Diligentia News in Aviation.

  Government-run Air India plans to raise around Rs 80 crore through sale of its seven properties, including some land parcels, as a part of its asset monetisation plan. The national carrier has mandated the state-run auctioneer MSTC to put these properties under the hammer. “Air India proposes to sell its exclusive properties in the form […]

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• Indo-Russian project to develop aircraft hits roadblock over price, technology

  Posted on May 23, 2017 by Diligentia News in Aviation.

  An ambitious Indo-Russian project to co-develop fifth generation fighter planes has hit major roadblocks over the issues of price and technology even as New Delhi has scrapped a programme to jointly produce multirole transport aircraft with Moscow over similar issues. India and Russia had signed an agreement around 2007 to co-develop both the transport plane […]

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• Mumbai now has the world’s busiest single runway airport

  Posted on May 23, 2017 by Diligentia News in Aviation.

  With its operations of 837 flights in a day or one every 65 seconds on an average, the airport at Mumbai is now the world’s busiest amongst the single-runway facilities. With one flight every 65 seconds to and from the financial capital of India, the Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport in Mumbai has become the world’s […]

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• DGCA plans to strengthen its regional offices

  Posted on May 23, 2017 by Diligentia News in Aviation.

  The civil aviation regulator in the country is decentralising its functions by strengthening its regional offices in Mumbai and Bengaluru as well as the one in New Delhi, in an effort to prepare itself for the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) audit scheduled for November. “We are in the process of hiring, and will fill […]

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• Despite 3-runways IGI has fewer flights than Heathrow, Dubai

  Posted on May 19, 2017 by Diligentia News in Aviation.

  Indira Gandhi International Airport has three runways, but trails those abroad with as many or fewer landing strips in hourly flight handling capacity .It isn’t surprising then that the airport catering to India’s capital is currently unable to meet the airlines’ growing demand for slots to operate additional flights, thus restricting the flyers’ options. Delhi […]

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