New York: All 34 people aboard a US Airways plane escaped unhurt when the aircraft made a belly landing at Newark Liberty International Airport after experiencing landing gear problem.
The US Express Flight 4560 was carrying 31 passengers and three crew members. US Airways spokesman Davien Anderson said no injuries were reported.
The flight, operated by Piedmont Airlines, took off from Philadelphia on Friday night. The plane reported a landing gear issue upon approach to Newark and stuck with a holding pattern before landing on its belly on Saturday morning....
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02:45 PM, May 19, 2013
Mumbai: Air India's plan to trim its 27,000 bloated workforce by offering a voluntary retirement scheme (VRS) is stuck in the North Block, with the Finance Ministry questioning the rationale behind the proposed scheme. The VRS scheme is "stuck in the Finance Ministry over the payment of Rs 1,200 crore for it. The ministry has pointed out that around 7,000 employees will retire from service over the next three years...
01:50 PM, May 19, 2013
New Delhi: The recent 'unbundling' of some services such as seat preferences or meals on board might be helping airlines to earn a lot of ancillary revenue, but the government is considering whether it could limit the number of 'preferred seats' on sale on each flight. The government has been prompted to step in just days after it announced unbundling of these services following reports that some airlines were charging...
12:48 PM, May 19, 2013
Moscow: Part of an airliner carrying more than 130 people caught fire as it was landing in Moscow, and passengers evacuated the plane by jumping off one of its wings and shooting down an evacuation slide. The Emergencies Ministry says none of the passengers and crew members were injured by the fire on the landing gear of the Boeing 737 at Vnukovo Airport on Saturday. A ministry statement said the...
06:32 AM, May 19, 2013
According to reports, the Boeing team is working on a new and improved design of Dreamliners. Air India has pressed the first of its modified Dreamliners into service as it redeploys the planes. Air India had grounded all six Dreamliners on January 17 after All Nipon Airlines of Japan reported battery overheating and fire in two of its aircraft in early January. ...
08:59 AM, May 18, 2013
Mumbai: Boeing on Friday said it will ready the remaining four grounded Dreamliners of Air India within this month and also deliver the seventh 787 to the national carrier by end of the month. After grounding all the six Dreamliners on January 17, Air India on Wednesday put two Dreamliners back into operations on the Delhi-Bangalore and Delhi-Kolkata sectors. The remaining four are under repair at the hangar here. "As...
09:50 PM, May 17, 2013
New Delhi: Airlines in India have agreed not to charge extra for seats after top officials of all airlines met at the Civil Aviation Ministry in New Delhi on Friday. Earlier, airlines had said they will charge extra if passengers wanted to book seats in advance. However, now they say they will only treat certain seats as privileged ones and charge extra for them. The Civil Aviation Ministry asked all...
08:58 PM, May 17, 2013
New Delhi: State-run Air India Ltd will resume flying its Boeing Co 787 Dreamliner passenger jets from Wednesday, Civil Aviation Minister Ajit Singh said on Tuesday, almost four months after the planes were grounded due to safety concerns. Air India has six Dreamliners and has ordered 21 more. The planes have been grounded worldwide since January following incidents of overheating in the batteries providing auxiliary power. Boeing has since worked...
01:06 PM, May 14, 2013
Washington: A passenger was booted off an American Airlines flight en route from Los Angeles to New York Monday when she would not stop singing Whitney Houston's hit 'I Will Always Love You'. The plane's pilot made an unscheduled stop in Kansas City about halfway through the six-hour flight after passengers and crew complained about the woman's incessant singing. American Airlines spokesman Joe McBride told local Kansas City KCTV that...
11:40 AM, May 14, 2013
New Delhi: A move that was aimed at bringing down flying costs has taken a turn for the worse. Starting May 13, you might have to pay more to fly. Air India ,for instance, has reduced free check-in baggage to 15 kilograms from the earlier 20 kilograms. Effective from May 13, each extra kilogram above the free allowance limit will cost Rs 250. Tickets with the lowest fare will be...
09:09 AM, May 12, 2013
New Delhi: A trial court is expected to frame charges against former Haryana minister Gopal Kanda and his aide Aruna Chadha on Friday in the Geetika Sharma suicide case. Kanda and his employee were named by 23-year-old airhostess Geetika in her suicide letter in 2012. In judicial custody since August 2012, both Kanda and Chadha have been charge sheeted under section 306 (abetment of suicide), 120 B (criminal conspiracy), 506...
07:46 AM, May 10, 2013
Turkey's national airline has barred female flight attendants from wearing red lipstick and nail polish, striking a nerve among secular Turks worried the country is becoming more Islamic. Turkish Airlines, Europe's fourth-biggest carrier, said the ban was aimed at keeping crews "artless and well-groomed with makeup in pastel tones", as a natural look improved communication with passengers. "As a consequence of our current cabin uniforms not including red, dark pink,...
12:19 PM, May 08, 2013
New Delhi: Kingfisher Airlines employees, who haven't received their salaries for months, adopted a unique form of protest. They booed Royal Challengers Bangalore's Virat Kohli at the Delhi airport on Tuesday. Virat is the captain of the team owned by Vijay Mallya who also owns Kingfisher airlines. Kingfisher Airlines, once India's second-largest airline, is behind on salary payments and has grounded its fleet. Over 80 pilots and 270 Kingfisher engineers...
11:40 PM, May 07, 2013
New Delhi: State Bank of India (SBI) on Monday said the consortium of lenders has recovered Rs 800-1,000 crore and is making all efforts to recover the remaining dues from beleaguered Kingfisher Airlines. "KFA recoveries are going on. We have substantial amount of recoveries. Total recoveries for banks is more than Rs 800-1000 crore," SBI Chairman Pratip Chaudhuri said here. The consortium of 17 banks, led by SBI, has an...
06:56 PM, May 06, 2013
New Delhi: A Delhi court on Saturday reserved for May 10 its order on framing of charges against former Haryana minister Gopal Goyal Kanda and his aide Aruna Chadha in airhostess Geetika Sharma suicide case. District Judge and Additional Sessions Judge SK Sarvaria reserved his order on framing of charges against Kanda and his employee Chadha, who are accused of abetting the suicide of 23-year-old Geetika. Earlier in the day,...
07:15 PM, May 04, 2013
New Delhi: In a move that would raise the cost of air travel, the government on Monday said it has allowed airlines to charge passengers for preferred seats on a flight, check-in baggages and meals, among other things. "Civil aviation minister Ajit Singh has decided to permit scheduled airlines to unbundle certain services and to charge fees for these services separately," an official release said. The services for which the...
08:50 PM, Apr 29, 2013
Kampala: A Boeing 787 operated by Ethiopian Airlines flew from Ethiopia to Kenya's capital Saturday, the first commercial flight since air safety authorities grounded the Dreamliners after incidents with smoldering batteries on two different planes in January. The Boeing 787 passenger jet arrived in Nairobi on Saturday afternoon after a two-hour trip from Ethiopia's capital, Addis Ababa, according to the Kenya airport website. The Dreamliner arrived at Nairobi's Jomo Kenyatta...
09:45 AM, Apr 28, 2013
New Delhi: The Jet-Etihad deal deal might have brought hope to India's struggling aviation sector but it is rattled Air India. It is a double blow - it will have to fight the combined strength of Jet's market penetration in India and Etihad's global network. The government has also increased the traffic rights between the two countries to 36,670 seats per week from the existing 13,300. This will eat into...
07:44 AM, Apr 26, 2013
Tokyo: Boeing Co on Monday began installing reinforced lithium ion batteries on five grounded 787 jets owned by launch customer All Nippon Airways, starting a process that should make the first commercial Dreamliners ready to fly again in about a week. Teams of Boeing engineers are working on the ANA jets at four airports in Japan, including Tokyo's Haneda and Narita hubs, Ryosei Nomura, a spokesman for the carrier said....
09:48 AM, Apr 22, 2013
Mumbai: Low cost carrier AirAsia on Sunday said that the AirAsia India board has approved and appointed a Chief Executive Officer for the Indian subsidiary. Earlier, an airlines spokesperson had said that the airline had not yet appointed a CEO for AirAsia India. "The board of Airasia India has approved and appointed a Ceo for Airasia India. He will be a revelation. Thrilled to have him on board," AirAsia Group...
11:35 PM, Apr 21, 2013
