Air India flew some of its Boeing Co 787 Dreamliner aircraft even after US regulators grounded the global fleet in December due to undiagnosed battery problems. Dreamliners operated by the national carrier were flown to Mumbai for maintenance reasons, Arun Mishra, the DGCA head said on Monday. ...
04:00 PM, Feb 04, 2013
Three of the rule changes dealt with abbreviated testing and approval of pilots who had been cleared to fly the Boeing 777 and were preparing to switch to the 787. ...
01:59 PM, Jan 28, 2013
National carrier Air India on Friday termed as "questionable" a report released by a German aviation think-tank ranking it as the third worst airline among 60 global carriers in terms of safety. ...
08:20 PM, Jan 25, 2013
The DGCA would look into the tariff structure of Indian airlines in view of the wide range of the base prices of air tickets, after the Supreme Court observed that the price bands were too wide and directed it to examine the matter. ...
05:49 PM, Jan 24, 2013
Turkey plans to build what it said would be the largest airport in the world in Istanbul, eventually able to handle 150 million passengers per year, in a project seen costing more than 7 billion euros. Transport Minister Binali Yildirim said on Wednesday the deadline for bids to build the airport, which will be Istanbul's third and have a total of six runways, would be on May 3. It was...
09:22 PM, Jan 23, 2013
British Airways is in talks with India's biggest carrier, IndiGo, over a ticketing and baggage sharing agreement, a source with direct knowledge of the discussions said on Tuesday. ...
11:02 PM, Jan 22, 2013
London's Heathrow airport cancelled 10 per cent of flights on Monday because of snow, about half the number cut on Sunday, and said there could be further disruption with more snowfall expected. ...
07:23 AM, Jan 22, 2013
London's Heathrow Airport cancelled a fifth of flights on Sunday and airlines scrapped 40 per cent of flights to Paris's main airports as snow continued to blanket parts of Europe, with more forecast. ...
06:48 AM, Jan 21, 2013
Civil Aviation Minister Ajit Singh on Sunday said the country would handle 336 million air passengers in the next 10 years and 85 million of them would be foreign passengers. ...
10:13 PM, Jan 20, 2013
Flights to and from India remain unaffected so far, even as airports across Britain struggle to cope with extreme weather conditions. Britain has been battered by heavy snow and strong winds in the past few days. Flights at Heathrow Airport - Britain's busiest airport - have been cut by 20 per cent after a further two to six centimetres of snow was predicted for on Sunday. ...
07:14 PM, Jan 20, 2013
A meeting between the core lenders group and the grounded Kingfisher Airlines, which is trying to resume operations by February, ended inconclusively in Mumbai on Friday evening, as the airline failed to table a concrete revival plan. ...
09:27 PM, Jan 18, 2013
Operations at the Indira Gandhi International Airport were partially hit due to fog on January 15, affecting the schedule of 25 domestic and international flights. Twenty-five flights, originating from here were delayed either due to weather conditions at the airport and at the destination or due to operational reasons. Only one flight was cancelled on January 15, airport sources said. ...
11:34 AM, Jan 15, 2013
Dense fog on Monday returned to Delhi affecting the schedule of over 150 flights at the Indira Gandhi International Airport, including diversions of eight to other cities. Flight operations at the airport came to a standstill for around one-and-half hours, between 5 am and 6:30 am, as the runway visibility was less than 50 metres on both the runways, main (28/10) and third (29/11), airport sources said. ...
11:15 AM, Jan 14, 2013
Major parts of eastern and central China were shrouded under a thick layer of haze and fog on Saturday while pollution in the capital city of Beijing was at 'hazardous' levels. Several flights were cancelled and 20 highways were closed in eastern China where visibility levels dropped drastically. ...
07:26 AM, Jan 13, 2013
Boeing Co's 787 Dreamliner jet suffered a cracked cockpit window and an oil leak on separate flights in Japan on January 11, the latest in a series of incidents to test confidence in the sophisticated new aircraft. All Nippon Airways Co said a domestic flight from Tokyo landed safely at Matsuyama airport in western Japan after a crack developed on the cockpit windscreen, and the plane's return to Tokyo was...
03:22 PM, Jan 11, 2013
India is "concerned" about the recent glitches in Boeing Co's 787 Dreamliner jets and is awaiting a safety report by the National Transportation Safety Board, a senior government official said on Friday. The Dreamliner jet had three technical mishaps in as many days this month, including an electrical fire that caused severe damage to a plane. ...
11:48 AM, Jan 11, 2013
At least 34 more deaths have been reported from Uttar Pradesh as the unabated cold wave continued in North India, taking the death toll to 233 people. Meanwhile, the minimum temperature in New Delhi rose to 4.4 degree Celsius from its previous 3.3 degree Celsius on Wednesday, but the Met department says mercury dipped to sub-zero levels in some parts of Uttar Pradesh. ...
07:39 AM, Jan 10, 2013
Operations at the Indira Gandhi International Airport here remained normal even as the area witnessed shallow fog on Wednesday. No flights were delayed or cancelled due to fog at the airport. ...
10:27 AM, Jan 09, 2013
The capital continues to shiver at three degree Celsius on Wednesday as there seems no respite from the cold wave. 29 more deaths were reported across North India and the death toll is now well over 170 as temperatures dropped to sub-zero levels at many places in the region. ...
08:12 AM, Jan 09, 2013
North India is still caught in the grip of the harsh cold wave which claimed 11 more lives in Uttar Pradesh on Saturday, taking this winter's death toll to 140. ...
06:34 AM, Jan 06, 2013
