New Delhi: Fourteen pilots and 31 cabin crew members have been found reporting for duty under the influence of alcohol till March this year, civil aviation minister Ajit Singh said on Wednesday. Of the total 14 pilots and 31 cabin crew who failed the pre-flight breath analyser test, a large number of pilots and cabin crew were of Jet Airways, he said in reply to a question in Lok Sabha....
12:24 AM, May 17, 2012
Mumbai: The on-time performance report of flights at the city airport for January 2012 reads like entries made in the school diary of a habitual adolescent latecomer, except that the latter is more innovative. The excuses run the whole gamut, from the very grave to the mildly serious to the somewhat frivolous and the rather hard to digest. They are repetitive, some cited as often as over 300 times. And...
12:56 PM, Mar 03, 2012
New Delhi: No-frills carrier Indigo Airlines on Friday said it will increase frequencies on the domestic and international routes this summer as it adds nine aircraft to its fleet by the year end. Though IndiGo has no plans to expand its international footprint as of now, "this year, we are concentrating on increasing our frequencies in the international and domestic routes in the summer schedule," the airline's President, Aditya Ghosh,...
06:32 PM, Mar 02, 2012
Mumbai: As Kingfisher hits rough weather, it isn't getting any easier for other members of the exclusive club in the Indian skies. The country's six domestic passenger airlines are all fighting for survival and a short-staffed Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) fears financial stress among them could compromise passenger safety. The financial audit report of the regulatory body that concluded just last month says all airlines were slammed for...
08:06 AM, Feb 21, 2012
New Delhi: India's aviation regulator plans to review the massive fleet expansion plans of IndiGo, the country's No 2 airline, after a safety audit found a shortage of trained staff and alleged operational discrepancies, a report by the regulator shows. IndiGo placed an order for 180 Airbus planes worth $16 billion last year in the biggest jet order in commercial aviation history. "Indigo has some rapid growth issues," said the...
11:31 PM, Jan 09, 2012
Mumbai: Private airlines are making the most of the ongoing Air India strike by charging exorbitant airfare three to four more than the actual prices from the flyers. The demon of arbitrary fares is back to haunt and fleece flyers again, this time riding on the back of the AI strike. Apparently, a long debate on regulating ticket prices a few months ago had little impact on the minds of...
12:30 PM, Apr 30, 2011
New Delhi: Another pilot was arrested for using forged documents to acquire a flying on Wednesday. Captain Swaran Singh Talwar was arrested in Delhi. He allegedly forged his marksheets to acquire the airline transport pilot license. Talwar was employed with MDLR airlines. Police had earlier issued a lookout notice for him and two other absconding pilots. Staying with that the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has stepped in aggressively...
09:27 AM, Apr 20, 2011
New Delhi: Two more persons, including a pilot, were arrested in Ahmedabad by Delhi Police for allegedly using forged marksheets to procure licence from the country's airline regulator DGCA, taking the total number of arrests in such cases to 11. Hiren Nagar (27), a pilot, and a tout Eknath Patil(46) were arrested from Ahmedabad by a team of Delhi Police's Crime Branch on Monday following the arrest of Abhinav Kaushik...
10:36 AM, Apr 05, 2011
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Notions and assumptions may not always prove right. That is what I thought when I got my first sight of Mumbai - the city of ...
07:44 PM, Mar 15, 2011
New Delhi: A commercial pilot Parminder Kaur Gulati was arrested on Wednesday for forging her Airline Transport Pilot Licence (ATPL) exam marksheet. This is an exam conducted by the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA). Parminder was a pilot with the Indigo Airways. There had been certain errors in a landing carried out by Parminder last year following which the DGCA instituted an inquiry. Following a complaint by the DGCA...
09:30 AM, Mar 09, 2011
New Delhi: There's been another security breach at the Delhi airport. A Go Air passenger passed through airport security undetected with eight kg gold. The gold was finally found when the passenger landed in Guwahati The passenger has been detained at the Guwahati airport. The incident happened just a few days after a Kingfisher passenger was allowed to enter the terminal and board a flight on a one-month old boarding...
03:13 PM, Mar 03, 2011
Chennai/New Delhi: The licence of a woman pilot of no-frills airline IndiGo has been cancelled after she made a rough landing in Goa last month, endangering several lives and investigators later found she had allegedly faked papers to get her permit to fly. "Yes, it (commercial pilot's licence) has been cancelled. We will file a police complaint soon against the pilot, Parminder Kaur Gulati," DGCA Director General Bharat Bhushan told...
05:13 PM, Feb 27, 2011
New Delhi: Airfares have soared this December but that has not stopped holiday travel. Domestic Airlines clocked a new record this Christmas, selling 1.84 lakh tickets on Friday. This is a 20 per cent rise over last year. Jet Airways sold the maximum, with over 36,000 tickets. Kingfisher followed with over 32,000 tickets. Low cost airlines also saw good sales. Even Go Air managed to sell over 10,000 tickets. Experts...
10:43 PM, Dec 24, 2010
Islamabad: A cargo aircraft crashed within a naval residential compound shortly after taking off from the airport in the southern Pakistani port city of Karachi on Sunday, with all members of the crew and several persons on the ground feared killed. The Il-76 aircraft, which had an eight-member crew on board, crashed near Dalmia area within the cantonment in Karachi at 1:50 am on Sunday. It went down in a...
08:08 AM, Nov 28, 2010
Rizwan afflicted with cerebral palsy, was not allowed to board an Indigo Airlines flight to Mumbai in May 4. ...
01:45 PM, May 07, 2010
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