Category Archives: Aviation

• Air India Jul 2016

  Posted on July 25, 2016 by Diligentia News in Aviation.

  Twenty-nine Air India employees, including six airhostesses, will soon join the national carrier in the cockpit as pilots. These employees, currently working as cabin crew, aircraft engineers and dispatchers have got the rare opportunity to fly aircraft thanks to Air India chairman Ashwini Lohani’s idea of grooming in-house talent. These 29 who will soon receive […]

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• Government is attempting to take the fuss out of flying – but airlines won’t let the plan take off

  Posted on July 25, 2016 by Diligentia News in Aviation.

  India might be the fastest developing economy in the world but 98% of the country’s citizens have never been inside an aircraft. The Narendra Modi government is trying to change that. Apart from connecting remote locations with aircrafts, the air travel regulator has been ushering new policies that will make it more attractive for travellers […]

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• Airport devpt: Collector seeks legal opinion on FRA certificate

  Posted on July 25, 2016 by Diligentia News in Aviation.

  The district collector has sought the opinion of legal experts on whether a Forest Rights Act certificate (FRA) is necessary to acquire land for the airport’s expansion. The project office of the integrated tribal development agency had said that the FRA certification is not necessary for the pending airport proposal. The airport needs some 10 […]

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• Aviation on cusp of vertical take-off

  Posted on July 25, 2016 by Diligentia News in Aviation.

  When real estate tycoon Niranjan Hiranandani of the Hiranandani Group was asked during a seminar organied by Indian Merchants’ Chamber (IMC) four years back to talk on “what needs to be done to bailout the Indian aviation industry”, the businessman was quick to reminisce his early days when he had to call someone in the […]

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• Navi Mumbai airport to start operations by December 2019, says minister

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

  Mumbai’s air gridlock may start easing in the next four years. The Centre on Thursday said the Navi Mumbai International Airport, which is to act as the aerial bypass to the choked-to-capacity Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport, may start operations by December 2019. Minister of state for civil aviation Jayant Sinha told Lok Sabha , “Selection […]

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• High court rejects Mumbai firm’s petition on air taxi

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

  In a major jolt to Mumbai-based Supreme Transport Organisation Private Limited, Madhya Pradesh high court dismissed its petition challenging the decision of the Madhya Pradesh tourism department, which cancelled its agreement for running air taxi service in the state after the company failed to start operations in the given time. The tourism department had also […]

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• Light Helicopter Replacement – Confusion Prevails

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

  The Cheetah /Chetak replacement programme continues to flounder despite the Government to Government agreement between India and Russia for the supply of 200 Kamov- 226T light helicopters under the Make in India Policy. Presently there is no clarity on as to how this project will move forward and both sides seem to be struggling to […]

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• Owners oppose land acquisition for airport runway expansion

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

  A forum of landowners from Karipur, Kondotty, Pallikkal and Nediyiruppu in Malappuram district has opposed the move to acquire land for the expansion of the Calicut International Airport. It announced at a press meet in Kozhikode on Tuesday that a protest march would be taken out on July 26 to the land acquisition office at […]

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• ‘Hybrid till’ model to determine future airport tariffs: Minister

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

  The government on Tuesday said that future tariffs at all airports will be calculated on a “hybrid till” basis. According to Minster of State for Civil Aviation Jayant Sinha, the “hybrid till” model will be used to ensure uniformity and level playing field for all airport operators. “As per the National Civil Aviation Policy (NCAP), […]

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• Airport official didn?t make racist remarks, finds probe

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

  Days after a woman from Manipur alleged that she was subjected to racist comments by an immigration officer at the Indira Gandhi International Airport, an internal inquiry conducted by the Bureau of Immigration has found the official not guilty of any such act, a highly placed government source told The Hindu. The immigration official only […]

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