Category Archives: Aviation

• Kolkata:Staff licence uncertainty may ground airport operations from April

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

  Airline officials are wary of flight disruptions from April 1 if the Bureau of Civil Aviation Security (BCAS) refuses entry passes to staff of ground-handling agencies outsourced by various airlines at the Kolkata and other Indian airports. The current entry passes used by nearly 6 lakh staff of 400-odd ground-handling agencies at Indian airports are […]

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• RGNAU to Launch US-India Aviation Cooperation Programme

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

  As reported by PIB, multiple experts will be participating in the programme by delivering high end lectures on various key topics such as Next Generation Transportation Systems, Airport Planning, Air Traffic Flow Management, Safety and Security and Sustainability in Aviation. In a bid to promulgate knowledge among aviation professionals, the Rajiv Gandhi National Aviation University […]

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• Will private players look at regional airports now?

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

  State-owned airports will now be allowed to monetise the huge parcel of land that it holds across the country in order to encourage private sector participation in developing these airports. Finance Minister Arun Jaitley in his speech of the Union Budget 2017-18 proposed a change in the Airports Authority of India (AAI) Act allowing the […]

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• Aerospace Industry to come up in Donakonda in Andhra Pradesh

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

  In what could be realising the long-cherished dreams, the sleepy town of Donakonda in the Prakasam district is going to turn into a major industrial hub in the coming years as the state government has succeeded in roping in big-ticket investments to the region. At least three major industrial houses are going to launch their […]

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• Privatise civil aviation, banking to push reforms: Economic Survey

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

  The Economic Survey 2016-17 tabled in Parliament on Tuesday by Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley called for more privatisation in the civil aviation, banking and fertiliser sectors to further the economic reforms process. “India needs an evolution in the underlying economic vision across the political spectrum and further reforms are not just a matter of […]

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• Survey comes down heavily on govt for propping up Air India

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

  The Survey has come down heavily on the government’s attempts to prop up Air India. “Defying history, there is still the commitment to make the perennially unprofitable public sector airline world class,” the Survey says. The Manmohan Singh government had committed ?40,000 crore to Air India, which helped the airline report an operating profit of […]

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• AAI to be allowed to monetise its 50,000 acres land bank

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

  In a move that will make flying out of airports cheaper from Airports Authority of India (AAI) airports, the finance minister today announced changed in rules to allow monetisation of land assets owned by the state-owned airport operator. AAI owns over 55, 686 acres of land in and around its airports across the country and […]

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• Rivals might be manipulating OTP numbers: IndiGo

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

  Upping the ante on ‘on-time performance’, IndiGo today alleged some of its rivals might be manipulating the numbers as they follow a system, which is not in line with global practices, to record the data. The latest salvo from IndiGo chief Aditya Ghosh comes against the backdrop of the airline’s On Time Performance (OTP) declining […]

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• PMO clears Rs 119 crore bills of Air India

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

  Bills worth Rs 119 crore pending towards cash-strapped Air India, generated for some foreign visits of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, have been cleared. RTI applicant Commodore (retd) Lokesh Batra said that the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) on January 30 uploaded on its website the details of bills worth about Rs 119.70 crore cleared for eight […]

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• AAI to construct 170 parking bays as airlines look to import more aircraft

  Posted on January 31, 2017 by Diligentia News in Aviation.

  The Airports Authority of India is to build 170 aircraft parking bays and six hangars at the airports that it runs in the country. The exact number of parking bays and the airports they will come up in will be decided soon, a senior AAI official told BusinessLine. It is likely that the construction of […]

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