Category Archives: Aviation

• What Air India should do to retain its lost glory

  Posted on September 20, 2016 by Diligentia News in Aviation.

  Aviation Minister Ashok Gajapati Raju in his inimitable way is attempting to bring back the glory that Air India once commanded. But more interesting is the kinship that Raju, a scion of the royal family of Vizianagram, finds with the airline’s iconic mascot: The Maharaja. Raju, in a nostalgic mood, has been regularly tweeting classic […]

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• Chandigarh airport embarks on global journey

  Posted on September 20, 2016 by Diligentia News in Aviation.

  At 5.15pm on Thursday (Sept 15), Chandigarh International Airport actually became international as a flight from Sharjah landed with 128 passengers onboard a 186-seater plane. At 6.35pm, an Air India Express plane carrying 182 passengers to Sharjah departed too, this being the first flight from this airport to a foreign destination. Union civil aviation minister […]

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• Airlines urge government to cap GST rate at 15%

  Posted on September 19, 2016 by Diligentia News in Aviation.

  Airlines have asked the government to set the goods and services tax (GST) at 15% and retain existing tax exemptions to avoid fare hikes. GST, which aims to economically unify the country, will subsume most of the indirect taxes levied by the centre and the states including excise duty, service tax, value-added tax, entertainment tax […]

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• Air India plans to reach out to pilots who had quit

  Posted on September 19, 2016 by Diligentia News in Aviation.

  Air India plans to reverse poach senior pilots and commanders, who had switched to other Indian and foreign airlines earlier and on whom the state-run carrier had spent a lot of money to train them. As part of the strategy to hire over 500 pilots, the public sector carrier would also focus on hiring those […]

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• Digital transformation enhances travel experience at Bengaluru airport

  Posted on September 16, 2016 by Diligentia News in Aviation.

  Digital transformation has paved the way for enhanced travel experience at Kempegowda International Airport, Bengaluru (KIAB). Bangalore International Airport Limited (BIAL) has stepped up the game by committing to a futuristic and innovative vision of The Smart Airport – a digitised, seamlessly connected and intuitive airport that is positioned as the ‘Gateway to South India’. […]

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• Indian flyers display rude behaviour: UAE report

  Posted on September 16, 2016 by Diligentia News in Aviation.

  The probe by the UAE aviation authorities into the crash-landing of an Emirates flight at Dubai last month has shown Indian flyers in poor light. Flight EK-521 was flying from Thiruvananthapurm in Kerala to Dubai on August 3 with 282 passengers -of which 226 or over 80% were Indians -when the aircraft burst into flames […]

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• Transaction advisors appointed for Dholera Airport: DMICDC

  Posted on September 16, 2016 by Diligentia News in Aviation.

  Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor Development Corporation (DMICDC) today said it has appointed transaction advisors for the greenfield Dholera Airport in Gujarat. The advisors have been “tasked with analysing and evaluating various plans, including detailed project report prepared by Airports Authority of India and suggesting a suitable mode of implementation,” DMICDC said in a statement. PricewaterhouseCoopers Pvt […]

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• HAL gets membership of APAQG with voting rights

  Posted on September 16, 2016 by Diligentia News in Aviation.

  Hindustan Aeronautics Limited today said it has been conferred the prestigious membership of the Asia-Pacific Aerospace Quality Group (APAQG) under the category ‘Full Member with voting rights’. This makes India the seventh nation to join the APAQG under TRHE International Aerospace Quality Group (IAQG). The other nations of APAQG are China, South Korea, Taiwan, Indonesia, […]

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• AirAsia India achieves gross profit breakeven in April

  Posted on September 15, 2016 by Diligentia News in Aviation.

  AirAsia India, the joint venture low-cost carrier of Tata Sons and Air Asia, has achieved gross profit breakeven in April while targeting its next milestone of cash flow positive and turn EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxation, depreciation and amortisation) breakeven by 2018-end, said its Chief Executive Amar Abrol. Claiming an aggressive plan of acquiring planes […]

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• Unscheduled flights from Russia can get visa for 7 days on reciprocal basis

  Posted on September 15, 2016 by Diligentia News in Aviation.

  Ahead of Home Minister Rajnath Singh visit to Russia, India has given a nod for a temporary landing permit (TLP) to crew members of unscheduled flights and ships from Russia, on reciprocity basis. A TLP allows crew members of scheduled/unscheduled flight to enter India without a valid visa and can be granted up-to 7days. Singh […]

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