Winter has set in across the north and the cold wave has intensified, claiming five more lives in Uttar Pradesh, taking the death toll to 11 in just three days. Temperatures have dropped to 2 degrees Celsius in some areas of Uttar Pradesh. ...
06:21 AM, Dec 25, 2012
New Delhi: The MeT department has announced that dense fog is likely to descend on the national capital by the December 20. Is the Delhi airport prepared for the delays and chaos it causes every year? Come winter and flight delays are a common woe. A few days ago passengers at London Heathrow had a harrying time as 200 flights were cancelled due to fog. The MeT department says fog...
06:37 AM, Dec 17, 2012
London: Winter is playing havoc in the United Kingdom, where dozens of flights have been cancelled due to thick fog and ice. Europe's busiest airport, Heathrow, has seen a bulk of cancellations. Visibility has been falling across central, eastern and north-west England. Ferry services too have been cancelled in London. Road and rail travel has also been disrupted, especially in North Yorkshire. Heathrow Airport had around 60 cancellations affecting incoming...
08:10 PM, Dec 12, 2012
Mumbai: Mumbai airport's main runway has been shut for maintenance. Mumbai's main runway will be shut between 9 am and 5 pm till February 7, 2013. Domestic flights from Mumbai will be affected. Over 120 domestic departures have been affected, airport sources said, adding, "by the time the work gets completed, airlines' on-time performances will go for a toss, as the main runway will remain unavailable between 9 am and...
10:40 AM, Nov 30, 2012
Hyderabad: Dense fog disrupted flight operations at the Rajiv Gandhi International Airport here early on Saturday. At least five flights, two of them international, were diverted to Bangalore due to poor visibility and an equal number of flights could not take off, an airport spokesperson told IANS. The fog hit the flight operations between 5.30-7 a.m. Flights coming from Dubai, Muscat, Chennai (two flights) and Mumbai were diverted to Bangalore....
12:08 PM, Nov 24, 2012
New York: Superstorm Sandy grounded more than 15,000 flights across the Northeast and the globe, and it could be days before some passengers can get where they're going. According to the flight-tracking service FlightAware, more than 6,000 flights were canceled on Tuesday. That brings the tally of flights canceled because of the storm to more than 15,000. By Tuesday morning, more than 500 flights scheduled for Wednesday also were canceled....
10:34 PM, Oct 30, 2012
New Delhi: Air India on Monday said its Mumbai-Newark and Delhi-New York flights have been "indefinitely delayed" due to Hurricane Sandy which is set to hit the East Coast of the United States. An Air India spokesperson said AI 191 Mumbai-Newark and AI 101 Delhi-New York have been indefinitely delayed due to the hurricane. Passengers have been informed and transit passengers have been provided hotel accommodation in Delhi, the spokesperson...
12:11 PM, Oct 29, 2012
New Delhi: In the latest twist to the Kingfisher Airlines crisis, sources on Friday said that the money to revive the cash-strapped airline will come from Vijay Mallya's UB Group as there is no investor available in the near term. Kingfisher CEO Sanjay Aggarwal met the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) officials on Friday afternoon and will now meet Mallya to discuss the revival plan. The meeting came after...
02:16 PM, Oct 26, 2012
New Delhi: Cash-strapped Kingfisher Airlines employees resumed work on Friday after striking a deal with the management and agreeing to the staggered salary payment schedule proposed by the company. Reports said that many of them have received the salary for the month of March. Meanwhile, Civil Aviation Minister Ajit Singh said that the airline has to satisfy the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) and paying salaries is not enough....
12:27 PM, Oct 26, 2012
New Delhi: In a major breakthrough in the Kingfisher Airlines crisis, all employees have agreed to the management offer to pay them salaries for three months before Diwali. Kingfisher CEO Sanjay Agarwal has said that all employees have agreed to resume work from Thursday itself. The management has promised to pay salaries for March within 24 hours. The rest have to be paid within the next two weeks before Diwali....
03:10 PM, Oct 25, 2012
New Delhi: No end to the standoff between Kingfisher Airlines employees and management. The partial lockout is set to continue as the cash-strapped airlines' officials had sought time from the DGCA until Wednesday but the employees have refused a written assurance of three months salary before Diwali. They want to be paid by Thursday. The crisis in Kingfisher Airlines following a 23-day lockout is likely to prolong with a large...
08:39 AM, Oct 24, 2012
Mumbai: Facing the real possibility of a shut down, cash-strapped Kingfisher Airlines will make one last attempt to convince its 4000 employees to return back to work on Monday. The management is slated to hold talks with them in Mumbai. This comes three days after the Directorate-General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) suspended its licence - putting the airline in further jeopardy. The employees have been seeking payments of all pending...
08:38 AM, Oct 22, 2012
New Delhi: Troubled Kingfisher airlines, whose flying licence was suspended by the DGCA, on Saturday night said it has stopped taking booking of tickets till it resumes operations. "We are now immediately suspending all forward bookings till such time we resume operations," Kingfisher spokesperson said in a statement, adding it's "our endeavour to re-start operations at the earliest and we assure you we are working towards achieving this". Meanwhile Kingfisher's...
08:52 AM, Oct 21, 2012
New Delhi: Flying licence of Kingfisher Airlines has been suspended till further orders, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation has said. "KFA's licence has been suspended till it comes with a revival plan," it said. The move comes after the Vijay Mallya-owned airlines failed to respond to DGCA's show cause notice. The airline has been struggling to pay its bills. It is seven months behind on salary payments and its...
02:34 PM, Oct 20, 2012
New Delhi: All eyes are on Kingfisher Airlines which faces suspension of its license on Saturday after it failed to reply to any of the questions posed in the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) show cause notice. Instead, the airline has asked for time to reply in person to the notice. The DGCA is mulling what steps should be taken next with a team of legal experts. A decision...
07:34 AM, Oct 20, 2012
New Delhi: Beleaguered Kingfisher airlines, which has declared a lockout till October 20, will hold a meeting with the employees' representatives on Monday in Mumbai to resolve the deadlock over non-payment of salary dues. Airline CEO Sanjay Aggarwal has written a letter calling employees for the meeting, airline sources said. Employees have been on a strike demanding payment of salaries of seven months and have been insisting that dues be...
11:39 AM, Oct 14, 2012
New Delhi: Cash-strapped Kingfisher Airlines' CEO Sanjay Aggarwal has written to the airline employees asking them to help the airline back to normalcy. "We need you to help us to have any chance of getting back to normalcy. Hope we will able to present viable plan to the DGCA and we hope to resume operations on October 13." Sanjay's letter says that the airline management has been working relentlessly to...
11:26 AM, Oct 10, 2012
New Delhi: Civil Aviation Minister Ajit Singh on Tuesday said that a separate air accident bureau which will be established to investigate accidents. Speaking at the Economic editors conference, Singh claimed that international traffic in India witnessed a growth of 5.4 per cent during January-August compared to same period in 2011. While, approximate losses of airlines in 2011-12 is over Rs 10,000 crore, domestic traffic is rapidly shifting to low...
12:42 PM, Oct 09, 2012
New Delhi: With DGCA serving a show-cause notice to beleaguered Kingfisher Airlines asking why its license should not be taken away, industry experts on Saturday said it could have been issued four months ago when the then aviation regulator chief had made a similar recommendation to avoid the present situation. "The government should have taken forward the recommendations made by then DGCA chief EK Bharat Bhushan who had recommended issuance...
10:04 AM, Oct 07, 2012
New Delhi: As Kingfisher Airlines extended its partial lockout by a week till October 12, Civil Aviation Minister Ajit Singh on Friday said the debt-ridden company will have to satisfy airline regulator DGCA on safety before it gets permission to fly again. "There are a lot of factors involved in it. That includes the salaries of the employees, their disgruntlement issues and others. If the employees are disgruntled there is...
12:16 PM, Oct 05, 2012
