Just a few days after it received the award for being the second best airport of the world, Sunday's rain exposed the Indira Gandhi International Airport's poor arrangement and preparedness for the monsoon. ...
11:44 PM, Jun 17, 2013
New Delhi: The Maldives Anti-Corruption Commission has found that no misdeed was involved in awarding the Male International airport to Indian company GMR, according to media reports. The $500 million contract with GMR had been terminated by President Waheed in 2012 following the Maldivian coup. The deal had been signed by former President Nasheed in 2010. The Maldives government had cancelled GMR's airport project claiming that it was financially unviable....
09:25 PM, Jun 17, 2013
New Delhi: Indira Gandhi International Airport has been named the world's second best airport in the 25-40 million passengers category by the Airport Council International. The airport also has been adjudged as the fourth best in the world among 199 airports across all categories. A nine-member team, comprising representatives from airport operator Delhi International Airport Limited (DIAL), Central Industrial Security Force, Airport Operations Control and Air India received the 'ACI...
07:58 PM, Jun 14, 2013
New Delhi: Gold worth at least Rs 70 lakh was seized by customs officials in three separate incidents at Indira Gandhi International Airport here and two persons were arrested in this connection. Customs officials said they found gold bars weighing 448 gms outside a washroom at the airport, which may have been dumped following tightening of vigil. They said CCTV footage was being examined to find the culprits. In the...
08:10 PM, Jun 10, 2013
Kolkata: A Kuala Lumpur-bound Emirates aircraft with 144 passengers on board on Sunday landed in emergency conditions in Kolkata after it was forced to return about an hour after take off due to suspected engine problem. The aircraft landed safely at NSC Bose International Airport, airport sources said. The flight took off at 5:45 pm for Kuala Lumpur. After one hour of take off, the flight returned and asked for...
11:23 PM, Jun 09, 2013
Nagpur: A Delhi-bound Air India plane from Visakhapatnam with 174 passengers and crew onboard was forced to land midway in Nagpur on Monday after pilots detected problem in its engine. "The Air India flight AI 452 made an unscheduled landing here after the aircraft developed a technical problem," Dr Babasaheb international airport director AK Verma told PTI. The Airbus 321 aircraft took off from Vishakhapatnam around 9.00 am as per...
10:54 PM, May 27, 2013
Mumbai: City police registered a case of theft after diamonds worth Rs 3.91 crore that were to be exported to Belgium went missing from Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport. According to the complaint, filed with Sahar Police, the complainant, who happens to be the employee of a diamond trading firm, sent a consignment containing 24 packets of diamonds to Belgium by air cargo on May 16. The representative of the Belgium-based...
11:22 PM, May 19, 2013
New York: All 34 people aboard a US Airways plane escaped unhurt when the aircraft made a belly landing at Newark Liberty International Airport after experiencing landing gear problem. The US Express Flight 4560 was carrying 31 passengers and three crew members. US Airways spokesman Davien Anderson said no injuries were reported. The flight, operated by Piedmont Airlines, took off from Philadelphia on Friday night. The plane reported a landing...
02:45 PM, May 19, 2013
Mumbai: Bollywood actor Ranbir Kapoor was on Saturday detained and fined about Rs 60,000 on undeclared branded personal goods he was carrying at the Mumbai International airport, a customs official said. The 30-year-old actor was later let off. Ranbir, who landed at the Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport on a British Airways flight from London at about 12:30 am on Saturday, was walking away with branded goods in his luggage that...
02:41 PM, May 04, 2013
New Delhi: Hyderabad's Rajiv Gandhi International Airport (RGI) has been rated as the best airport in India, the fifth best regional airport in Asia and the eighth best airport in the 5-10 million passengers per annum capacity category. The ratings were given at the recently concluded Skytrax-World Airport Awards held at the Passenger Terminal Expo in Geneva. The RGI, along with Delhi's Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGIA) and Bengaluru International...
09:03 AM, Apr 19, 2013
New Delhi: Flying out of Delhi? You may soon be asked to take off your shoes and belts, and jewellery, if you are wearing any, at the security check counters of the Indira Gandhi International Airport. The Bureau of Civil Aviation Security (BCAS) is in the process of putting in place tighter security check norms like this, in line with those in the US and Europe, following higher threat perception,...
04:46 PM, Apr 12, 2013
Aaradhya Bachchan was clicked fast asleep in her mother's arms at the Mumbai international airport. ...
12:59 PM, Apr 01, 2013
An ICC official was caught allegedly bringing into the country a silver trophy worth Rs 20 lakh without paying customs duty at IGI aiport here following which it was seized. ...
06:00 PM, Mar 24, 2013
A JetBlue passenger jet was clipped by an Air India plane on the tarmac of New York's John F Kennedy International Airport early on Saturday morning, JetBlue said in a statement. ...
01:24 AM, Mar 10, 2013
The stores are located in Domestic Terminal's Gate 27 and International Terminal's Gate 15. ...
02:47 PM, Jan 24, 2013
The Rs 2,325 crore new integrated terminal building of the Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport in Kolkata would be officially operational with an inaugural Air India flight to London via Delhi on the patriot's birth anniversary on Wedneday. "The world class infrastructure in civil aviation set up in eastern India will be operational with this inaugural flight as a symbol of honour to Netaji," Director of Airports Authority of...
03:41 AM, Jan 23, 2013
Come February, flying from Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport in Mumbai will be costlier as the Airports Economic Regulatory Authority (AERA) on Wednesday approved a 154 per cent rise in development fee from passengers. The new tariff would come into effect from February 1. ...
11:20 PM, Jan 16, 2013
After being badly hit by dense fog, flight operations at the Indira Gandhi International Airport were today normal even as the airport witnessed shallow fog. The visibility remained good through the night. Though there was shallow fog in the morning, it had no effect on the flight operations as the visibility remained above 1,000 metres, airport sources said. ...
11:16 AM, Jan 16, 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
Operations at the Indira Gandhi International Airport in Delhi were affected on Wednesday after dense fog partially disrupted the schedule of over 30 flights, including diversion of an international flight to Mumbai. ...
12:52 PM, Jan 02, 2013
