Category Archives: Aviation
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9.5 million fliers travelled across India in Dec, the highest for 2016
Posted on January 11, 2017 by Diligentia News in Aviation.According to a travel portal’s traffic analysis report, India’s domestic carriers ferried 9.5 million fliers — the highest recorded in a month last year. The report by Ixigo.com also stated that traffic between October and December accounted for one-third the total fliers’ volumes in the year. “On the whole, 2016 was a great year for […]
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Vistara goes all out to cut costs, enhance revenue
Posted on January 11, 2017 by Diligentia News in Aviation.Almost three decades ago, an American airlines saved $40,000 annually by removing just one olive from each salad plate. Giving the same attention to cost reduction, Vistara, the full service JV airline of Tata-Singapore Airlines, will now increasingly source catering for passengers from the city it is flying out of. The logic: Taking catering trays, […]
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Disagree with FlightStats report, says Air India after being ranked third worst in punctuality
Posted on January 11, 2017 by Diligentia News in Aviation.National passenger carrier Air India on Monday said that it disagrees with a report published by data services company FlightStats which has ranked the airline as the third worst global performer in terms of on-time operations in 2016. “We totally disagree with the report published by FlightStats about AI,” Air India’s spokesperson Dhananjay Kumar was […]
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Air Pegasus gets lifeline as FlyEasy picks up majority stake for Rs 70 cr
Posted on January 10, 2017 by Diligentia News in Aviation.Air Pegasus has received a lifeline with another Bengaluru-based airline, FlyEasy, picking up a majority stake for around Rs. 70 crore. Sources close to the airline said FlyEasy has bought slightly over 60 per cent stake in Air Pegasus. Air Pegasus, whose operator licence has been suspended, will now start operations in a month’s time, […]
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Exclusive – Airbus may post 8 percent rise in 2016 deliveries, narrow gap with Boeing
Posted on January 10, 2017 by Diligentia News in Aviation.Airbus (AIR.PA) is set to post an 8 percent rise in deliveries for 2016, beating expectations, after a sprint to the finish line that narrowed the gap with arch-rival Boeing, according to industry experts and records of aircraft movements. The European planemaker was forced to accelerate deliveries sharply in December to meet its target after […]
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India to discuss aviation assistance with Nepal tohelp build three airports
Posted on January 10, 2017 by Diligentia News in Aviation.India is scrambling to offer assistance to Nepal in developing its aviation sector, an attempt to counter China’s initiative to help the Himalayan country build three international airports. The government has invited Nepalese officials to discuss issues including reviving an old plan of the state-owned Airports Authority of India (AAI) to build and operate airports […]
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Performance data row: Jet, SpiceJet to take on Indigo
Posted on January 10, 2017 by Diligentia News in Aviation.Airlines have got into a battle over on-time performance data, with SpiceJet and Jet Airways expected to fire the first salvo this week. Officials of both these airlines plan to meet the director-general of civil aviation on Tuesday to question the merit in IndiGo’s recent complaint about the veracity of on-time performance (OTP) data collected […]
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Air India Ranked Third-Worst Performing Airline In The World
Posted on January 10, 2017 by Diligentia News in Aviation.For those who insist that traveling is all about the journey, we say this: It really depends on which carrier you’re flying. Aside from variations in cabins and service quality, there’s the major concern of how likely you are to get delayed. Fly on the wrong airline and your odds of a delay are as […]
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DGCA panel to check airlines’ OTP claims after IndiGo complains of irregularities
Posted on January 6, 2017 by Diligentia News in Aviation.Your airline may not be sharing the correct on-time performance (OTP) figures, believes the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA), which has constituted a panel to look into the fudging of OTP data by airlines. “In view of some discrepancy observed in computation of OTP data, the DGCA has constituted a committee to look into […]
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AirAsia comes under CBI lens
Posted on January 6, 2017 by Diligentia News in Aviation.A month after Enforcement Directorate registered a case of foreign exchange violations against AirAsia India, the Central Bureau of Investigation on Thursday claimed that it is also examining the matter in which there are allegations of fraudulent transactions of Rs 22 crore involving non-existent entities in India and Singapore. Sources in the CBI said that […]
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