New Delhi: Civil Aviation Minister Ajit Singh on Friday made public the Dharmadhikari Report and said that the demands of striking Air India pilots will be looked into only after they end their strike unconditionally. Singh also said that the ministry has set up a core panel to implement the recommendations of the Dharmadhikari report on the merger of Indian Airlines and Air India. There will be parity between the...
01:59 PM, Jun 01, 2012
Mumbai: Troubled carrier Kingfisher Airlines' loss widened to Rs 1,151.53 crore in the fourth quarter of 2011-12 due to steep hike in fuel prices and sharp depreciation of the rupee. It had net loss of Rs 355.55 crore in the January-March quarter of 2010-11, Kingfisher said in a filing to the BSE. It has been facing financial troubles for almost a year now. The airline, which never made a profit...
11:59 AM, May 31, 2012
New Delhi: The I-T department on Tuesday reportedly froze the bank accounts of Kingfisher Airlines, allegedly over part payment of dues. Sources said that the airlines had been slapped with a notice of Rs 342 crore. The airlines had to repay Rs 9 crore every week. KFA made a part payment of Rs 4.5 crore for two weeks. Since November 2011, the Service and Income Tax departments have frozen as...
05:10 PM, May 29, 2012
Mumbai: Air India board will meet in Mumbai on Monday to discuss the nearly three-week-old strike by over 200 pilots and a host of financial issues. Airline sources said the board is likely to consider the next steps to be taken to deal with the strike, spearheaded by the now derecognised Indian Pilots Guild. The airline has sacked 101 pilots and is mulling hiring new pilots to restore normalcy its...
05:34 AM, May 28, 2012
Sao Paulo: A Brazilian airline says one of its female pilots tossed a passenger off a flight because he was making sexist comments about women flying planes. Trip Airlines said in a statement on Tuesday that the pilot rejected the man before takeoff as he made loud, sexist comments upon learning the pilot was a woman. The jet continued on to the state of Goias after a one-hour delay. The...
02:53 PM, May 23, 2012
New Delhi: Jet Airways is expected to order more than 100 narrow-body aircraft for up to $3.75 billion in 2012-13 as the largest Indian carrier grabs market share from its troubled rivals, a leading consultancy said. The airline is understood to be actively evaluating Airbus's narrow-body A320 aircraft, and is likely to lease up to 10 A330s to support expansion of its European network, the Centre for Asia Pacific Aviation...
12:48 PM, May 23, 2012
CHENNAI : Overlooking the security cut-off time of an hour for VIPs may be an unwritten rule with most private airlines, but an incident at the Thoothukudi airport on Monday showed how hazardous it can be. According to airline sources, Thoothukudi constituency DMK MP SR Jayadurai verbally abused and almost assaulted the manager of Kingfisher Airlines there, for not holding his flight until he arrived. As he was a local...
08:13 AM, May 22, 2012
New Delhi: Cash-strapped Kingfisher Airlines has paid Rs 15 crore as service tax dues in April this year but is still to pay up Rs 54 crore arrear, Central Board of Excise and Customs (CBEC) Chairman SK Goel said on Monday. "They (Kingfisher Airlines) are paying their monthly dues every month. They are also paying their arrears. Last month, they paid about Rs 15 crore...Rs 54 crore total arrears left,"...
01:57 AM, May 22, 2012
Mumbai: Despite a marginal improvement in the seat factor, national carrier Air India (AI) has lost its market share in April, helping low-cost airline SpiceJet to become the third-largest airline in the month with a market share of 17.7 per cent, according to the latest data from the sectoral regulator DGCA. The fall in the market share of AI is significant as the national carrier has seen an improvement in...
10:33 PM, May 18, 2012
Islamabad: A brawl occurred between Pakistan International Airlines crew members and Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani's son Ali Musa on a flight from Lahore to Karachi, according to a media report on Friday. According to The Express Tribune, Ali Musa, a parliamentarian, insisted that his guard, who had an economy class ticket, would sit with him in the business class. The matter was resolved when the captain of the flight...
06:10 PM, May 18, 2012
New Delhi: The government is expected to soon take a view on the proposal of allowing foreign airlines to buy stakes in domestic carriers as the Industry Ministry has moved the final Cabinet note on the matter. "We have moved the Cabinet note...it is work in progress," Commerce and Industry Minister Anand Sharma told reporters. According to sources, before the proposal is taken up by the Cabinet, Prime Minister Manmohan...
05:23 PM, May 18, 2012
New Delhi: Vijay Mallya-promoted Kingfisher Airlines owes Rs 269.06 crore income tax and I-T Department has initiated penalty and prosecution proceedings against the private carrier, Government informed the Lok Sabha on Friday. Kingfisher Airlines was found to have deducted tax at source (TDS) on salary payments but had not deposited it in Government account, Minister of State for Finance SS Palanimanickam said in a written reply. "Survey... was conducted at...
02:23 PM, May 18, 2012
New Delhi: Air India's market share dwindled last month pushing it down to the fourth position among all Indian carriers as it registered the highest flight cancellations despite having no labour trouble then. Cash-strapped Kingfisher Airline's market share also dropped drastically to the last spot among all the domestic carriers, according to the April air traffic data released by the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA). The data showed Jet...
07:13 PM, May 17, 2012
New Delhi: Fourteen pilots and 31 cabin crew members have been found reporting for duty under the influence of alcohol till March this year, civil aviation minister Ajit Singh said on Wednesday. Of the total 14 pilots and 31 cabin crew who failed the pre-flight breath analyser test, a large number of pilots and cabin crew were of Jet Airways, he said in reply to a question in Lok Sabha....
12:24 AM, May 17, 2012
New Delhi: Air travel is all set to get costlier for those flying in and out of Delhi. The Airports Economic Regulatory Authority (AERA) has decided to raise the User Development Fee by a whopping 346 per cent. This comes into effect from Tuesday. This means those taking domestic flights will have to shell out anything between Rs 195 to Rs 462 depending on the distance travelled. For international fliers,...
08:41 AM, May 15, 2012
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