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: Jet Airways on Tuesday said it has got regulatory extension to meet the mandatory 25 per cent public shareholding norm in the private airline. In a filing to BSE, Jet said Sebi, on May 13, relaxed the requirement of 12-week cool-off period after the proposed inter se transfer of shares to enable the company to undertake the offer for sale through stock exchange mechanism to achieve the minimum level...
11:26 PM, May 14, 2013
New Delhi: Jet Airways is expected to order more than 100 planes from Boeing Co and Airbus at the Paris Airshow in June, a leading aviation consultancy said. The Centre for Asia Pacific Aviation (CAPA) said in a report it understood Jet has already confirmed an order for 50 737-MAX planes together with up to 10 777-300ERS from Boeing. CAPA said it expected a further order of 50 Airbus A320neo...
09:55 PM, May 09, 2013
Mumbai: Jet Airways group on Thursday said it has revised, with effective from May 15, the free baggage allowance to 15 kg in the economy class on all domestic routes, but has retained the cabin baggage limit at the previous level of 7 kg. The airline, in a statement, said it will charge a passenger flat Rs 250 for every additional baggage. However, the JetPrivilege members will continue to enjoy...
06:57 PM, May 09, 2013
Mumbai: Jet Airways on Monday said its promoter and chairman Nareh Goyal will bring down his stake in the company to 51 per cent to meet the Sebi requirement of 25 per cent floating shares. The airline has decided to give three director posts to Etihad Airways following the stake sale deal last week, it told exchanges in a filing. However, it is learnt that one of the three Etihad...
09:26 PM, Apr 29, 2013
New Delhi: Describing the over Rs 2,000 crore business proposal between Jet and Etihad airlines as a win-win deal, Civil Aviation Minister Ajit Singh today said it will be beneficial for flyers. In the first Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) deal after India opened up the aviation sector, Jet Airways will sell a 24 per cent stake to Etihad Airways in a $379 million (Rs 2,058 crore) deal. "It is a...
04:42 PM, Apr 25, 2013
Mumbai: Shares in Jet Airways surged as much as nearly 20 per cent after Gulf carrier Etihad Airways said it is taking almost a quarter stake in Jet Airways at Rs 754.74, a 31.7 per cent premium to Jet's closing share price on Tuesday. Etihad will also invest an additional $150 million in Jet's frequent flyer programme and spend $70 million to buy Jet's three pairs of Heathrow slots through...
10:19 AM, Apr 25, 2013
Mumbai: The Rs 2,058 crore deal between Jet Airways and Etihad Airways will benefit passengers, as increased competition will bring down air fares, aviation sector experts said on Wednesday. According to Captain Gopinath, the founder of erstwhile Air Deccan, the increased competition will lead to low airfares, besides bringing about improvement in the passenger amenities. Jet promoter Naresh Goyal and Etihad President and CEO James Hogan on Wednesday announced a...
07:35 AM, Apr 25, 2013
Dubai: Abu Dhabi's Etihad Airways confirmed it had taken a 24 per cent minority stake in Jet Airways for $379 million. The Gulf carrier said in an emailed statement it would subscribe to 27.3 million new shares at Rs 754.74 per share. Jet said in a brief statement to the stock exchange earlier on Wednesday that its board had approved the allotment to Etihad. Etihad, which is on an aggressive...
07:59 PM, Apr 24, 2013
Mumbai: Jet Airways will sell a minority stake to fast-growing Abu Dhabi-based carrier Etihad Airways for over Rs 20OO crore (roughly $379 million) after months of negotiations. India's largest airline by market share said in a brief statement to the stock exchange that its board approved the allotment to Etihad of 27.3 million shares at Rs 754.74 each on a preferential basis. The price represents a 31.7 per cent premium...
02:02 PM, Apr 24, 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
New Delhi: Passengers from Tier-II cities would no longer have to change planes at a metro, if Jet Airways gets the government nod for its plans to mount code-share flights with Gulf carrier Etihad from 23 Indian cities by 2016. According to the plans submitted to the Civil Aviation Ministry, the Naresh Goyal-owned carrier is understood to have sought to connect to 23 cities with Abu Dhabi in the long...
05:00 PM, Apr 20, 2013
Boston: The passengers of a US Airways flight were deplaned on Tuesday evening (IST) after a suspicious baggage was found on-board. The passengers of flight 1716 were evacuated in a secure building at Boston's Logan International Airport after the bag was detected. However, after investigations, an all-clear was given by the airport authorities. The US is taking extra precautions after the twin bomb blasts at the Boston Marathon earlier on...
09:34 PM, Apr 16, 2013
New Delhi: British Airways has been asked to pay Rs 90,000 as compensation to a passenger for losing his luggage in transit from Delhi to Milan. The South West District Consumer Disputes Redressal Forum noted that due to loss of baggage, the man had to purchase at huge cost articles of daily use for the duration of his and his wife's stay in Milan and is entitled to be compensated....
05:39 PM, Apr 15, 2013
Domestic air travel is going to be costlier again with both state-run Air India and private carrier Jet Airways hiking fuel surcharge on flight tickets by up to Rs 150. "Both Jet Airways and Air India have revised their fuel urcharge on domestic network by up to Rs 150," an industry source said. ...
01:06 AM, Mar 29, 2013
A tyre of the Thai Airways International aircraft from India exploded while landing at Suvarnabhumi Airport in Bangkok early on Saturday morning. All 287 passengers and crew members were evacuated from the twin-engine Airbus 330-300 aircraft that had left Kolkata at 2.48 am, the Bangkok Post online reported. ...
09:59 AM, Mar 16, 2013
High-fliers are picky. Bone china in business class travel is so last decade. And large carriers are working very hard to woo the first and business class traveller into ever newer, even more exclusive experiences. Millions of dollars are being spent in the effort to lure the big spenders away from the siren songs of corporate jets. ...
04:17 PM, Mar 14, 2013
Indian representatives on the board and indeed in the airline's senior management. Whether AirAsia Bhd's aircraft can be brought in for operation into India, a measure that would certainly be cheaper for the airline, is still unclear. Though the government has cleared the investment, AirAsia will actually have to lobby for permissions at every step. ...
05:00 PM, Mar 13, 2013
ith the government withdrawing Kingfisher Airlines' international flying rights and domestic slots, the Jet Airways has approached the Aviation Ministry to acquire six of the vacant slots, according to sources. ...
01:57 PM, Mar 03, 2013
SpiceJet started it in January and now Jet and Indigo have followed the suit of slashing fares through promotional campaigns in a bid to attract more customers and tide over a seasonally slow month of March. And while the strategy has definitely got fliers excited, with the Jet Airways website reportedly crashing soon after the offer was announced, sources say the Aviation Regulator may not be as pleased. ...
11:03 PM, Feb 20, 2013
