New Delhi: An American national has been arrested at the IGI airport allegedly with 23 live cartridges, which police on Sunday claimed was brought from the United States without any valid documents. Police said no firearms were recovered from Jeffrey Jinnin Worn, who was about to board a Turkish Airlines flight on Saturday. "During security check at the time of boarding, some suspicious items were found in Worn's baggage. It...
03:01 PM, May 27, 2012
New Delhi: Five persons, including three employees of private firms involved in maintenance work, were on Saturday arrested by Customs officials at Indira Gandhi International (IGI) airport in New Delhi for allegedly smuggling memory cards worth over Rs one crore in two separate cases. Acting on an intelligence input, Air Customs officials arrested Ravi Kumar, a resident of Sonepat in Haryana, with 32,030 memory cards of 2GB and 8GB with...
06:14 PM, May 19, 2012
New Delhi: A man was arrested on Tuesday at the Indira Gandhi International airport for allegedly smuggling memory cards and other electronics goods worth over Rs 26 lakh by Customs officials. Kamal, a Delhi resident, was carrying 1,600 Sony memory cards for Cybershot cameras, 3,200 game processors and other electronic items worth Rs 26.62 lakh, they said. The passenger had arrived from Guangzhou, China. "While passing through Green Channel, on...
03:26 PM, May 08, 2012
New Delhi: In a move that would soon raise air travel costs from the Indira Gandhi International Airport, the Airports Economic Regulatory Authority (AERA) on Wednesday decided to raise landing, parking and other charges by a whopping 346 per cent for two years. In its latest order, AERA also fixed higher rates of user development fees (UDF) for both incoming and outgoing domestic and international passengers this year, with the...
09:01 PM, Apr 25, 2012
The year-long ordeal for the Bhattacharya family in Norway ended on Tuesday as the two children, Abhigyan and Aishwarya, arrived in India with their paternal uncle Arunabhash. ...
10:37 AM, Apr 24, 2012
New Delhi: The ground staff and technicians of cash-strapped Kingfisher Airlines at Delhi's Indira Gandhi International Airport are on a strike. Thursday is the second day of their strike against non-payment on salaries for months. Kingfisher Airlines, owned by Indian liquor baron Vijay Mallya, is in talks with two foreign carriers, including International Airlines Group (IAG), the owner of British Airways and Iberia, for a potential rescue package, a report...
02:07 PM, Mar 01, 2012
New Delhi: Two baggage assistants of Air India were apprehended while they were allegedly trying to steal laptops and mobile-phones inside the Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi, Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) said on Friday. The two AI staff have been identified as Deepak Nangia and Abhimanyu, a CISF officer said, adding that one laptop and three mobile-phones were recovered from the duo in separate cases. While Nangia...
11:53 AM, Feb 18, 2012
New Delhi: Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGIA) has been ranked second in the 25-40 MPPA category in the Airport Service Quality (ASQ) awards given by the Airports Council International (ACI) for 2011. IGI Airport has steadily improved its quality levels and ranking over the last five years after management was transferred to DIAL. The airport has moved from an ASQ score of 3.02 in 2007, and a rank outside the...
04:37 PM, Feb 14, 2012
New Delhi: An imported dog from Australia transported by an international airline has been caught in a procedural tangle and left stranded at the Indira Gandhi International airport (IGIA) in New Delhi for over a month. The canine of 'Greyhound' breed is awaiting a mandatory 'no objection certificate' from the Animal Quarantine and Certification Services (AQCS) under the department of animal husbandry dairying & fisheries of the ministry of agriculture...
07:40 PM, Dec 09, 2011
New Delhi: The Centre on Wednesday told the Delhi High Court that it has sought the IIT's help to find a way to curb noise pollution near Indira Gandhi International (IGI) Airport to ensure a quieter environment for residents near the airport. Additional Solicitor General (ASG) AS Chandhoke told a division bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justice Sanjiv Khanna that it has asked the IIT Delhi and experts...
07:46 PM, Sep 21, 2011
New Delhi: The first ultra long haul passenger jet with a capacity to fly non-stop up to 16,000 km will land at the IGI airport in New Delhi on Wednesday. Coming in from Seattle via Tokyo, the 787 Dreamliner plane of the US aircraft maker Boeing, would arrive in New Delhi on Wednesday at 10:30 am, airport sources said. It would then fly to Mumbai the next day and from...
10:41 PM, Jul 12, 2011
New Delhi: Bangalore-bound GoAir plane, with 171 passengers and crew on board, had to make an emergency landing at the IGI airport soon after it took off from Delhi on Monday, an official spokesperson said. The pilot of the GoAir flight G8-201 asked for emergency landing after a smoke warning from the cargo compartment was on. The flight which took off at 9.23 am from Delhi landed safely at 9:41...
01:32 PM, Jun 06, 2011
New Delhi: The Supreme Court has asked Delhi International Airport (DIAL) to pay Rs 15 crore to Municipal Corporation of Delhi as an interim measure against the Rs 70 crore demand in property tax from the airport operator. A bench comprising Justice DK Jain and Justice HL Dattu dismissed DIAL's petition, challenging a high court order that asked the airport operator to pay Rs 15 crore as an interim measure....
10:29 AM, May 15, 2011
New Delhi: An anonymous call received at an airline call centre threatening to explode a bomb on Tuesday sparked a security alert at the Indira Gandhi International (IGI) airport here with police sanitising the facility. The call centre of national carrier Air India received the telephone call at around 7 pm in which the caller threatened to trigger a bomb blast. A senior CISF official said the call was "not...
09:23 PM, Apr 05, 2011
New Delhi: As the country witnesses a burgeoning air traffic, Delhi's Indira Gandhi International (IGI) Airport has been handling the maximum number of flight movements daily followed by Mumbai's CST Airport. While the airport in New Delhi handled an average of 741 flights each day between April and December last year, Mumbai's CST Airport handled 695 flights, official figures have showed. The flights include international, domestic and those of the...
09:13 AM, Mar 13, 2011
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