Category Archives: Aviation

• BCAS suspends IndiGo’s security training centre licence

  Posted on February 6, 2017 by Diligentia News in Aviation.

  Bureau of Civil Aviation Security (BCAS) has suspended the licence of budget carrier IndiGo’s aviation security training facility for alleged lapses in the examination system conducted by it. The orders issued by the apex aviation security agency BCAS last week bar the Gurgaon-based airline from conducting security training programme for its employees any further, sources […]

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• IGI airport first in India to cross 5 crore flyer mark

  Posted on February 6, 2017 by Diligentia News in Aviation.

  In a first for any Indian airport, IGI Airport crossed the 5-crore passenger mark last year. The airport with three runways and as many terminals handled 5.5 crore passengers: 4 crore domestic and 1.5 crore international flyers. Mumbai was a distant second at 4.4 crore. This was 21% higher than 4.6 crore passengers IGI had […]

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• Civil Aviation Ministry Gives Push to Executive Development for the Aviation Sector

  Posted on February 3, 2017 by Diligentia News in Aviation.

  The first Executive Development Programme of Rajiv Gandhi National Aviation University was inaugurated by the Minister for Civil Aviation Shri Ashok Gajapathi Raju in the capital today. Speaking on the occasion, the Minister said that the Aviation University should play the important role of spreading knowledge and see that it is applied practically in the […]

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• AAI can monetise 2000-3000 acres of its land, says Ashok Gajapathi Raju

  Posted on February 3, 2017 by Diligentia News in Aviation.

  Civil Aviation minister Ashok Gajapathi Raju on Thursday said the national airports operator AAI could monetise around 2000-3000 acres of its land and utilise the funds raised in airport infrastructure development. Under the current norms, airport land could be used only for limited purposes. Raju’s comments came a day after Finance Minister Arun Jaitley announced […]

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• PPP spells bright prospects for Lucknow airport

  Posted on February 3, 2017 by Diligentia News in Aviation.

  Flyers may be in for better services with Union government making budgetary provision for operation and maintenance of airports in tier-II cities on a PPP (public private participation) model. Aviation experts said the provision actually replaces the privatisation scheme proposed earlier that could not take off on account of low profitability of relatively smaller airports. […]

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• Expansion by Indian carriers to help aviation sector overcome cash ban impact

  Posted on February 3, 2017 by Diligentia News in Aviation.

  Continuous addition of capacity by India’s airline companies will help the country’s aviation market overcome the impact of demonetisation, says airline body International Air Transport Association (IATA). IATA’s observation came, as it announced that ‘the domestic India market topped the growth chart for the second year in a row; passenger volumes surged by 23.3% in […]

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• India sees highest domestic air passenger growth in 2016: IATA

  Posted on February 3, 2017 by Diligentia News in Aviation.

  Emerging as a stand-out performer, India witnessed the highest growth of 23.3 per cent in domestic air travel demand worldwide in 2016 twice that of neighbouring China, according to IATA. The global airlines’ grouping today said domestic India market topped the growth chart for the second year in a row with passenger volumes surging twice […]

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• Air India to use government dole to trim aircraft loans

  Posted on February 3, 2017 by Diligentia News in Aviation.

  National carrier Air India is set to reduce its aircraft loans after finance minister Arun Jaitley allocated Rs 1,800 crore toward retiring debt that has been raised to fund fleet expansion of the debt-laden airline. New Delhi-based Air India, which is battling both full-service and low-cost private carriers for market share at home and the […]

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• Government Allocates Rs 1,800 crore as Budgetary Support to Air India

  Posted on February 2, 2017 by Diligentia News in Aviation.

  The government has put aside Rs 1,800 crore as budgetary allocation for Air India for the financial year 2017-18, less than what the national carrier asked for, in an indication the government continues its squeeze on fund handouts to the loss-making carrier. In the last financial year, the government had allocated Rs 1,713 crore while […]

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• Civil Aviation Ministry gets 22% more budgetary funds for 2017-18

  Posted on February 2, 2017 by Diligentia News in Aviation.

  The Civil Aviation Ministry today received a substantial increase of over 22 per cent in budgetary allocation at Rs 5,167.60 crore for the next financial year. In the Union Budget 2017-18, presented by the Finance Minister Arun Jaitley in Parliament today, out of the ministry’s total allocation, a good chunk will be for Air India, […]

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