Category Archives: Aviation

• I would love AirAsia to own 100 per cent in Indian arm: Tony Fernandes, CEO, Air Asia Group

  Posted on June 27, 2017 by Diligentia News in Aviation.

  AirAsia Group CEO Tony Fernandes had always wanted AirAsia India to fly to foreign cities early and had argued against the norm stipulating minimum five years and 20 aircrafts for domestic airlines to fly abroad. Last year, India scrapped that scheme to allow all airlines to fly abroad provided they deploy at least 20 aircraft […]

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• Now, Airports Authority of India revises bidding norms for Jaipur, Ahmedabad airports

  Posted on June 27, 2017 by Diligentia News in Aviation.

  The Airports Authority of India (AAI) has reworked the bidding parameters for awarding operation and maintenance works of Ahmedabad and Jaipur aerodromes to private players amid the process hanging fire for over a year. Seeking to attract more bidders, the contracts would now be awarded for 15 years instead of the 10-year time frame while […]

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• Gaganning for aircraft glory

  Posted on June 27, 2017 by Diligentia News in Aviation.

  The Centre is soon expected to issue the notification to make GAGAN (GPS Aided GEO Augmented Navigation), the indigenously developed navigation system, mandatory for new aircraft registered in the country from January 1, 2019. This would enable the country to break free from the over-dependence on the international tech regime led by the Global Positioning […]

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• Govt divided over Air India future

  Posted on June 27, 2017 by Diligentia News in Aviation.

  The civil aviation ministry will prefer to sell off Air India’s subsidiaries to partially clear the national carrier’s huge debts rather than go in for an immediate privatisation. The ministry has objected to Niti Aayog’s proposal to sell off Air India as there will be no takers given the huge debt of Rs 52,000 crore. […]

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• Mumbai airport unlikely to be part of next bidding under UDAN

  Posted on June 23, 2017 by Diligentia News in Aviation.

  The Mumbai airport is unlikely to participate in the second round of bidding for air routes for the government’s regional connectivity scheme or UDAN because of capacity-crunch at the busy aerodrome. The Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport handled 837 flights a day, or one in 65 seconds, on an average in fiscal 2016-17, becoming the world’s […]

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• Naidu: Orvakal airport will accelerate growth

  Posted on June 23, 2017 by Diligentia News in Aviation.

  Chief Minister Nara Chandrababu Naidu has said the greenfield airport being constructed at Orvakal will help weed out faction feuds in Kurnool district. With the construction of the airport, many industries will come up in the district thus helping business in this area and generating more employment. The Chief Minister, who laid the foundation stone […]

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• Qatar Airways considers India, Italy plans

  Posted on June 23, 2017 by Diligentia News in Aviation.

  Qatar Airways is in talks with Bombardier concerning the possible use of CSeries jets for the Qatari carrier’s proposed Indian venture, CEO Akbar al Baker has said. “Instead of ATRs [from Avions de Transport Régional] or Q400s [from Bombardier], I could use the CSeries on short-runway destinations in India,” he told Reuters during the 2017 […]

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• SpiceJet orders 40 Boeing 737 MAX 10s

  Posted on June 23, 2017 by Diligentia News in Aviation.

  SpiceJet is to acquire 40 Boeing 737 MAX 10 aircraft at a deal valued at a current list price of $4.74 billion. The actual amount that SpiceJet will pay will be much lower as aircraft manufacturers are known to give heavy discounts for bulk sales. SpiceJet will take delivery of its first 737 MAX in […]

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• Airports in private sector at Amaravati, Vizag: Naidu

  Posted on June 23, 2017 by Diligentia News in Aviation.

  Airports better than the one in Hyderabad would come up at Amaravati and Visakhapatnam in the private sector, Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu announced at Orvakal on Wednesday. The State government was according priority to logistics and augmentation of passengers and good transport, expansion of roads, railway network and ports in the State, Mr. Naidu […]

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• India’s GMR, four others other bid for Belgrade airport

  Posted on June 23, 2017 by Diligentia News in Aviation.

  Four consortia and one company will proceed the next round of bidding for a 25-year concession to operate Belgrade’s Nikola Tesla airport, the biggest in the Balkan region, the company and a Serbian government commission said on Wednesday. Serbia, which has an 83.1 percent stake in the airport, expects the deal to be worth around […]

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