Category Archives: Aviation

• Aviation soars with 25% growth in passenger traffic; IndiGo’s domestic market share hits almost 40%

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

  India’s aviation sector is soaring new highs and touching new skies, with the month-on-month passenger growth for the month of July hitting a record 25%. The total number of passengers carried by domestic airlines during the January to July 2016 period were 560.87 lakh versus 455.95 lakh during the corresponding period of previous year, thereby […]

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• India may open talks on foreign flying rights

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

  India is likely to further open foreign flying entitlements with several countries, helping ease travel worries on some of the usually busy routes and start direct flights to Greece. Over the next two months, India will start negotiations on foreign flying rights with Nigeria, Dubai, Thailand, Saudi Arabia and Cambodia to add more seats on […]

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• Aviation ministry to meet foreign delegates, stress on auction for additional seats

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

  In a bid to curb any increase in bilateral airline seat entitlements and push for auction process to allocate additional seats, the ministry of civil aviation will meet official delegates from West Asian and European countries later this month. This comes in the wake of the underutilisation of seats by Indian carriers. Indian airlines use […]

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• Indian carriers line up 50 plane deliveries by March 2017 to meet demand

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

  Indian commercial carriers will add at least 50 new and leased aircraft during the current financial year, with IndiGo alone accounting for 24 narrow-body new generation Airbus-A320neo deliveries. Of the 24 planes, IndiGo has taken deliveries of four aircraft in this financial year. IndiGo, owned by InterGlobe Aviation Ltd and with a current fleet size […]

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• Navi Mumbai airport may miss December 2019 deadline to commission the first phase

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

  Navi Mumbai international airport may miss the December 2019 deadline due to extension in the request for proposal (RFP) submission period and delays in securing various clearances. The City and Industrial Development Corporation (CIDCO), which is a nodal agency for the airport project, will now have to extend the time till December or January next […]

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• Govt sets 2019 deadline for Navi Mumbai Airport

  Posted on August 17, 2016 by Diligentia News in Aviation.

  Alarmed at the capacity constraints in Mumbai airport, the aviation ministry is working on a two-pronged strategy — to create slots by making the airport in Juhu operational, and complete the operational part of the airport in Navi Mumbai by 2019. According to the plan, the government has set a 2019 deadline to make the […]

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• Biju Patnaik International Airport to operate 24X7 from Sep 1

  Posted on August 17, 2016 by Diligentia News in Aviation.

  Biju Patnaik International Airport (BPIA) authorities have decided to keep the airport open round the clock from September 1. “The Ministry of Civil Aviation has already given permission for day and night operation of the airport,” said BPIA Director R Mahalingam.  Share This

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• Air India registers Rs 100 cr operating profit in FY 16, finds mention in PM’s I-day speech

  Posted on August 17, 2016 by Diligentia News in Aviation.

  Air India’s return to profitability was acknowledged by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his Independence Day speech on Monday. “Air India was infamous for incurring losses. My government has succeeded in bringing Air India to a situation of clocking operational profit,” Modi said, taking credit for the carrier’s achievement. Modi did not disclose the airline’s […]

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• CM: No more extensions for airport bidders

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

  Chief minister Laxmikant Parsekar on Sunday said that the state government will give no further time extension to bidders to submit their request for proposal (RFP) for the construction of the international greenfield airport at Mopa. Parsekar told mediapersons that the last time they received RFP from three bidders and two bidders requested a two-month […]

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• Centre not to give clearance to Aranmula airport: Kerala BJP

  Posted on August 12, 2016 by Diligentia News in Aviation.

  BJP in Kerala has said the Centre would not take a stand in favour of the proposed private International Airport at Aranmulla, which has run into trouble after environment groups and the locals opposed it. BJP state president Kummanom Rajasekharan, who was in the forefront of an agitation against the airport, said Union Environment and […]

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