New Delhi: The CAG report on the Delhi airport said that the decision by the Civil Aviation Ministry to award the contract for the Delhi airport to GMR caused humongous losses to the tax payers and passengers. It said that land was given to the company at much lower rates than even to government organisations like the DGCA and the BCA. The CAG has pegged the losses at about Rs...
01:42 PM, Aug 17, 2012
New Delhi: All three CAG reports on coal, power and aviation were tabled in the Rajya Sabha on Friday. The report on coal blocks allocations puts the presumptive loss to the Government at Rs 1.86 lakh crore, which is much bigger and greater than the 2G scam itself. CNN-IBN has accessed the final draft of the CAG report on coal block allocations that also raises questions on the role of...
12:50 PM, Aug 17, 2012
New Delhi: Twenty two Kingfisher Airlines flights have been cancelled from Delhi on Wednesday after a section of pilots and engineers failed to report to work. Sources said that the pilots are protesting against non-payment of salaries for over five months. Kingfisher Airlines owner and liqour baron Vijay Mallya is in the capital and is likely to address the issue on Wednesday. The airline's operations have been disrupted time and...
11:44 AM, Aug 08, 2012
New Delhi: State-owned Air India will resume most of its international operations by the end of the month. The airline was forced to scale down its international operations massively following the recent two-month strike by a section of pilots. "We will be ready to restart our full international operations by the end of August. We will restore New York, Chicago and Paris flights by then... Also resume flights to Hong...
07:31 PM, Aug 05, 2012
New Delhi: Air India has been ordered by a consumer forum to pay Rs 35,000 as compensation to a woman for demand of bribe from her son by its airport staffer to allow him carry extra luggage on his way to Singapore for studies. The forum ordered compensation for complainant Beena Shah saying that the demand of the bribe amounted to causing harassment to her as her son was entitled...
04:51 PM, Jul 31, 2012
New Delhi: Facing the threat of downgrading of the aviation safety net, the task is cut out for new DGCA chief Arun Mishra, who said his prime focus would be to take all measures to ensure safe and secure flying in India. UN-body International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) is scheduled to carry out a safety audit of the aviation regulator this year-end, even as the Directorate General of Civil Aviation...
04:47 AM, Jul 30, 2012
Hyderabad: In an attempt to create better air connectivity for the people of the state, the state government is coming out with a State Civil Aviation Policy in August. This is also expected to fetch good amount of revenue to the government in the form of dividends payable for the equity it will provide for the project which will be in public-private partnership. The government plans at least six new...
12:24 PM, Jul 27, 2012
New Delhi: A Group of Ministers (GoM) on Wednesday approved a compensation package sought by Air India from US aircraft maker Boeing for a four-year delay in delivery of Boeing 787 Dreamliner planes. "The GoM considered it and now we will send it to the CCEA (Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs). ... It will be taken up whenever the next CCEA meeting is held," Civil Aviation Minister Ajit Singh told...
05:34 PM, Jul 25, 2012
Honolulu: A $2.2 million expedition that hoped to find wreckage from famed aviator Amelia Earhart's final flight is on its way back to Hawaii without the dramatic, conclusive plane images searchers were hoping to attain. But the group leading the search, The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery, still believes Earhart and her navigator crashed onto a reef off a remote island in the Pacific Ocean 75 years ago this...
01:33 PM, Jul 24, 2012
New Delhi: With the view to celebrate the 115th birth anniversary of the first aviatrix to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean - Amelia Mary Earhart, Google has today replaced its usual logo with a doodle that features Earhart climbing up the aircraft "Lockheed 5B Vega," which she used to fly alone across the Atlantic Ocean in 1932. But, besides the fact that Amelia Mary Earhart was the first woman...
10:16 AM, Jul 24, 2012
New Delhi: Seventy five years after her disappearance and 115 years following her birth, Google is honouring the pioneering American aviator (and author) Amelia Earhart. The aviation heroine's end still remains an enigma. The doodle on Amelia Earhart's 115th birth anniversary shows her climbing up her Lockheed Vega 5B monoplane, Earhart's yellow scarf fluttering in the wind. The Google letters take the place of the original registration number of the...
12:01 AM, Jul 23, 2012
New Delhi: India could face the possibility of downgrading of its aviation safety system by the US if it did not take urgent steps to strengthen institutions like DGCA to meet the challenges of a fast-growing air traffic, an aviation consultancy group has said. In 2009, the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), concerned by what it considered to be gross under-staffing of the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA), had...
02:41 PM, Jul 22, 2012
New Delhi: India could face the possibility of downgrading of its aviation safety system by the US if it did not take urgent steps to strengthen institutions like DGCA to meet the challenges of a fast-growing air traffic, an aviation consultancy group has said. In 2009, the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), concerned by what it considered to be gross under-staffing of the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA), had...
02:41 PM, Jul 22, 2012
New Delhi: After the sacking of 101 pilots during the recent 58-day strike, Air India on Friday said it has received representations from 34 of them expressing willingness to join duty. While nine sacked pilots on Thursday sent in representations against termination of their services and stating their willingness to resume work, 25 such representations were received today by the management of the national carrier, official sources said. The protracted...
08:38 PM, Jul 20, 2012
New Delhi: The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) on Friday said that domestic airfares were unlikely to go down to the 2011 levels any time soon. However, it said, the fares may soften with a decline in demand. The DGCA said that higher operational cost and airport charges were responsible for the higher fares, although insisting that they were still within the prescribed band. The airfares this year have...
12:43 PM, Jul 20, 2012
New Delhi: FDI in retail may be a reality by August 15 as the government is working towards building a consensus on the issue. An indication to this effect came on a day when Tata group Chairman Ratan Tata called for an urgent need to push reforms and the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) ordered simpler security clearance for projects and set up a Project Clearance Board under the Cabinet Secretary....
04:44 PM, Jul 19, 2012
Bangalore: Vulture Aviation, a team of Class XII students of Bishop Cotton Boys School, has qualified for competition conducted by NASA. The team is among the three from across Asia, which have qualified for the final round of International Space Settlement Design Competition conducted by NASA. Speaking at a press conference on Wednesday, the 12 students said they would participate in the finals to be held on July 29 and...
02:01 PM, Jul 19, 2012
Bangalore: Some wings of national carrier Air India would soon be hived off to right-size its staff strength and monetise its assets for an early turn-around, Civil Aviation Minister Ajit Singh said on Tuesday. "As part of the Rs 30,000-crore ($5.5 billion) turn-around package, Air India's engineering and ground support units will be hived off into separate entities to reduce its employee ratio per aircraft and make it more efficient...
10:15 PM, Jul 17, 2012
New Delhi: Air fares have shot up in the past fortnight mainly on account of crisis in Kingfisher Airlines but the aviation regulator DGCA on Monday said the hike did not indicate any "alarming trend". Following the reports, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) studied the recent pricing trends and "concluded that the air fare offered by various scheduled domestic airlines on different sectors remained within the fare bands...
07:05 PM, Jul 16, 2012
The air fares of flights to and from Delhi have gone up because of increased user development fee and service tax. ...
07:01 PM, Jul 16, 2012
