Category Archives: Aviation

• As talks for aviation climate deal begin, India holds out

  Posted on September 28, 2016 by Diligentia News in Aviation.

  Fast-growing aviation powerhouse India is not ready to join the world’s first climate deal to curb pollution from commercial flights because it fears that talks beginning on Tuesday may not lead to a fair agreement, its civil aviation minister said. The proposed landmark deal, backed by the United States and China, aims to limit rising […]

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• Airlines reject demand for additional benefits, perks to MPs

  Posted on September 28, 2016 by Diligentia News in Aviation.

  Airline companies IndiGo, Jet Airways, SpiceJet, Go Air and Air India have grounded a demand for giving perks to members of parliament (MPs). These perks include quota of seats on flights, air travel facilities and assistance at airports to board/de-board a plane. On Monday, senior executives of the five airlines attended a meeting called by […]

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• Airline bars kids from `elite’ seats, draws DGCA ire

  Posted on September 26, 2016 by Diligentia News in Aviation.

  If you are flying IndiGo with children under 12 years of age, then the extra leg room seats are out of bounds for you. The low cost carrier has termed seats in rows 1-4 and 11-14 as “quiet zones” and passengers travelling with young children, or unaccompanied minors, cannot pre-book them by paying extra for […]

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• Indian aviation sector takes off in a big way as air traffic rises

  Posted on September 26, 2016 by Diligentia News in Aviation.

  The aviation scenario in India is going through an impressive boom and is experiencing unprecedented growth. In fact, the growth in the past 10 years has eclipsed that in the past 50 years. Over the course of the past decade, domestic airport traffic has jumped from 51 million passengers to 169 million passengers, while international […]

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• Global help for Mangalagiri airport

  Posted on September 26, 2016 by Diligentia News in Aviation.

  The Cabinet decision to develop airport at Mangalagiri in an extent of 5,000 acres is a move to attract investors across the globe to take part in the development of new state capital Amaravati. On the same lines, it has decided to develop the runway at Visakhapatnam airport. “As part of increasing air connectivity from […]

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• ‘Partial’ take-off for airport handover – GLOBAL BIDS TO RUN 2

  Posted on September 26, 2016 by Diligentia News in Aviation.

  The Airports Authority of India is set to outsource the running of two airports in a “cautious” take-off on a phased privatisation scheme the earlier government had conceived before the Narendra Modi regime put it on hold. Sources said the AAI, the civil aviation ministry’s arm that operates airports, would see how the “partial privatisation” […]

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• High-flyer: The maharaja who pioneered Indian aviation

  Posted on September 26, 2016 by Diligentia News in Aviation.

  As the Indian Air Force (IAF) gets ready to celebrate 84 years of its foundation on October 8, the Jodhpur Flying Club (JFC), set up in 1931 by the then ruler of Jodhpur Maharaja Umaid Singh at a small airfield near his palace, is completing 85 years of its glorious history. An avid flyer who […]

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• Developer for Bhogapuram airport near Vizag likely by January ’17

  Posted on September 22, 2016 by Diligentia News in Aviation.

  The AP government is pinning hopes on finalising the developer for the Bhogapuram International Airport by January 2017. The land acquisition for the project is expected to be completed by the Vizianagaram district administration by December this year. According to senior officials, the technical bids from developers are expected to be opened during the last […]

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• IndiGo opts for bigger single-aisle planes for overseas expansion

  Posted on September 22, 2016 by Diligentia News in Aviation.

  IndiGo is for the first time opting for bigger aircraft in the single-aisle segment, as it steps up overseas expansion plans. India’s biggest airline by market share has tweaked part of its aircraft order, converting 20 Airbus A320Neo planes to A321Neos, said two people in the know. In IndiGo’s single-class configuration, the A321 will have […]

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• Groundwork for Rs 16,500-crore Navi Mumbai airport to take off next month

  Posted on September 22, 2016 by Diligentia News in Aviation.

  Work on construction of the Navi Mumbai international airport (NMIA) is set to start next month, almost two decades after a second international airport for Mumbai was proposed. The state government wants Prime Minister Narendra Modi to perform the bhoomi pujan for the Rs 16,500 crore project in the last week of October. According to […]

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