Category Archives: Aviation

• India now #4 country for air travel; passes Germany for airport traffic with over 250m passengers in 2016; IndiGo’s 40% domestic share

  Posted on March 1, 2017 by Diligentia News in Aviation.

  The latest passenger statistics from the Airports Authority of India confirm that the country’s airports handled over 254 million passengers in 2016, an increase of 20% over 2015. This means that India moves into fourth place in the global rankings, overtaking Germany, and behind only the US, China and the UK. While the US and […]

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• Govt to sell 51% stake in Air India? Aviation secy says not true

  Posted on March 1, 2017 by Diligentia News in Aviation.

  Union Civil Aviation Secretary RN Choubey on Tuesday denied that the government was looking to sell a majority stake in Air India. A report had claimed that the government was looking to sell a 51 percent stake in the loss-making national carrier to a strategic partner. People familiar with the matter were quoted as saying […]

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• India to fill gaps in aerial vigilance

  Posted on February 28, 2017 by Diligentia News in Aviation.

  With Pakistan and China rapidly modernising their air forces, India has intensified efforts to fill the gaps in its aerial surveillance. After handing over the first indigenously developed airborne early warning and control system, Netra, to the Indian Air Force at Aero India last week, the Defence Research and Development Organisation has set its sights […]

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• More intra-state flights may take UDAN on government’s regional connectivity push

  Posted on February 28, 2017 by Diligentia News in Aviation.

  The regional connectivity scheme is set to give a boost to intra-state connectivity in a number of large states in the country, as several bids under the regional connectivity scheme, or Ude Desh ka Aam Nagrik (UDAN) plan, are favouring intra-state connectivity. “Looking at the bids, we can comfortably say that a number of states […]

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• Work on Bhogapuram airport will begin soon : Aviation Minister

  Posted on February 28, 2017 by Diligentia News in Aviation.

  Visakhapatnam as a modern growing industrial city needs a new international airport and therefore the Centre has taken up the project at Bhogapuram in Vizianagaram district. Work on the project will begin once the land acquisition process is completed, Civil Aviation Minister P. Ashok Gajapati Raju, has said. He was interacting with members of the […]

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• JSW group to foray into aviation business

  Posted on February 28, 2017 by Diligentia News in Aviation.

  Sajjan Jindal’s JSW Group is entering the civil aviation business. It has bid for the Bengaluru-Vijayanagar route under the government’s regional connectivity scheme, its top executive said. “Our Group has submitted the bid under the government’s scheme and the bid is only for one route, which is Vijayanagar to Bengaluru. No listed company is involved,” […]

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• Centre mulls dedicated cargo airport for Telangana, UP

  Posted on February 28, 2017 by Diligentia News in Aviation.

  The Centre is considering a proposal each from Telangana and Uttar Pradesh for setting up a ‘dedicated cargo airport.’ Telangana wants a dedicated cargo airport to be built in northern Hyderabad, while Uttar Pradesh is seeking the green signal to construct one such airport in the western part of the state, official sources said. The […]

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• Will start receiving ordered Boeing planes from mid-2018, says SpiceJet

  Posted on February 28, 2017 by Diligentia News in Aviation.

  Stating that Indian aviation market is the fastest growing in the world, SpiceJet on Monday said that it aspires to be the most profitable airline in the country. “We have the best on-time performance in the industry. We will try to reduce costs and increase ancillary revenue,” it said. The low-cost carrier also said that […]

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• Did you know? Every 9 in 10 AAI airports are running a loss

  Posted on February 28, 2017 by Diligentia News in Aviation.

  The Airports Authority of India (AAI) is making losses at 90 percent of the airports it operates, reports Business Standard . This is due to a lack of aviation activity at the airports, with 30 of the 109 loss-making airports under it completely bereft of any aircraft traffic. The government’s regional air connectivity initiative is […]

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• JSW Group to boost PM Modi’s plan to improve flight connectivity for small towns and villages

  Posted on February 27, 2017 by Diligentia News in Aviation.

  JSW Group, the Indian conglomerate led by billionaire Savitri Jindal, applied under a subsidy program spearheaded by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to improve flight connectivity for small towns and villages. The group made a bid in an ongoing auction process which will allow companies asking for minimum government subsidies to operate scheduled commercial flights to […]

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