New Delhi: Cash-strapped Kingfisher Airlines, whose losses widened by a whopping 147 per cent in the last quarter, on Tuesday told aviation regulator DGCA it had curtailed its flight operations due to the grounding of six of its 17 aircraft fleet and pilots' strike. Kingfisher CEO Sanjay Agarwal made a presentation on the airline's performance, severely impacted by financial distress, before DGCA chief Arun Mishra in New Delhi, official sources...
08:03 PM, Aug 21, 2012
Mumbai: Captain SPS Suri was suspended by DGCA pending inquiry for allegedly trying to bury an episode of turbulence on a flight. But he travelled as operational crewmember for another flight on August 1, in violation of aviation and immigration guidelines. An inquiry against him for alleged contravention of rules has apparently failed to stop this Air India pilot from flouting a few more. MiD DAY had reported on July...
03:47 PM, Aug 07, 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
Mumbai: What happens in the air stays in the air. That appears to be the policy of Air India, or to be precise, a particular pilot of the national carrier, who apparently failed to report an incident of mid-air turbulence that resulted in damage to the aircraft and injuries to about 20 persons on board. During a MiD DAY investigation it was revealed that Air India flight AI 348 Delhi-Shanghai...
07:30 PM, Jul 24, 2012
New Delhi: The controversy over a DGCA note on beleaguered Kingfisher Airlines refused to die down on Friday with new DGCA chief Prashant Sukul saying there was no such document and his predecessor E K Bharat Bhushan seeking a probe into whether it was removed from the official file. "I have gone through the papers and files. I also had an enquiry conducted. .... Unfortunately, we have found no such...
06:12 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: 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
New Delhi: EK Bharat Bhushan, who was abruptly shunted out as the Director General of Civil Aviation recently, is being shifted to the Steel Ministry, official sources said on Friday. Bhushan will take over as Additional Secretary and Financial Adviser (AS&FA) in the Steel Ministry, swapping postings with Machendranathan who would join the Civil Aviation Ministry in his position as Additional secretary. Both Bhushan and Machendranathan belong to the 1979...
08:28 PM, Jul 13, 2012
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11:57 PM, Jul 12, 2012
The letter accessed by CNN-IBN reveals that the Vijay Mallya-owned airline had been served a notice of 15 days to pay the salaries and dues of its employees. ...
11:09 PM, Jul 12, 2012
A four-year-old boy died after falling into an open drain while playing outside his school in Vasundhara area. ...
10:59 PM, Jul 12, 2012
New Delhi: Serious questions are now being raised against Union Civil Aviation Minister Ajit Singh. Is air safety being compromised to shield Kingfisher Airlines? CNN-IBN has accessed the file noting of former DGCA E K Bharat Bhushan that makes it clear that the DGCA boss was sacked a day after he drafted a warning to kingfisher airlines threatening termination of licence. The file noting signed by Bhushan says, "Kingfisher has...
09:34 PM, Jul 12, 2012
New Delhi: Former Director General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) Bharat Bhushan had signed a letter and given it to the Additional DGCA in which it was pointed out that the troubled Kingfisher Airlines had failed to comply with the recovery plan. The letter accessed by CNN-IBN reveals that the Vijay Mallya-owned airline had been served a notice of 15 days to pay the salaries and dues of its employees. "Kingfisher...
02:42 PM, Jul 12, 2012
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11:51 PM, Jul 11, 2012
Mumbai: A day after the Aviation Ministry unceremoniously removed Director General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) EK Bharat Bhushan allegedly for his tough stance against crisis-hit Kingfisher Airlines, the Vijay Mallya-promoted carrier on Wednesday said it had nothing to with his exit. "Transfer of its officials is the sole prerogative of the government. It is highly incorrect to suggest that the transfer of DGCA Bhushan was in any way connected to...
10:50 PM, Jul 11, 2012
New Delhi: Director General of Civil Aviation Bharat Bhushan was reportedly sacked soon after signing a letter terminating Kingfisher Airlines' licence for not paying its employees for several months. The letter terminating Kingfisher's licence was signed by Bhushan for not complying with several assurances that the operator had given that all its employees would be paid their salaries and dues. However, speaking to CNBC-TV18 Bhushan said that he had not...
06:52 PM, Jul 11, 2012
New Delhi: In a new twist to the row over the removal of Director General of Civil Aviation (DGCA), it has now come to the light that the extension given to Bharat Bhushan as DGCA was cleared by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and there was nothing wrong with the decision given by the Appointments Committee of Cabinet. Sources say that the extension was done with the approval of all the...
05:47 PM, Jul 11, 2012
New Delhi: Former Civil Aviation minister Vayalar Ravi on Wednesday said that the sacking of DGCA Bharat Bhushan came as a surprise to him as Bhushan was "one of the finest officers" he had known. "Bharat Bhushan is one of the finest officers... He believes in norms. When I was incharge of Civil Aviation, he took all efforts to check corrupt practices... agents. He never spared Air India. I gave...
02:27 PM, Jul 11, 2012
New Delhi: The extension of Bharat Bhushan's tenure as the Director General of Civil Aviation was a procedural mistake, according to sources. The man who took on corruption in aviation, Bharat Bhushan, was suddenly removed as the DGCA on Tuesday, a week after his tenure was extended by the Cabinet. While Civil Aviation minister Ajit Singh refused to react, the Civil Aviation Ministry sources say that the extension was sought...
01:50 PM, Jul 11, 2012
