Mumbai: A Ahmedabad-Chennai SpiceJet flight made an unscheduled landing at the Mumbai airport on Friday after the plane reportedly developed a technical snag. SpiceJet authorities said the flight made an emergency landing after a technical snag was discovered and was likely to take off shortly. The local authorities were, meanwhile, put on standby. The flight had 112 passengers on board. ...
08:52 AM, Apr 13, 2012
Mumbai: An alert Air Traffic Controller prevented a mishap at the Mumbai airport on Thursday evening by directing an incoming JetLite flight to stay airborne, as another Jet Group flight took a little longer than expected to clear the main runway. The incident also delayed the departure of another JetLite flight from the city, a Jet Airways spokesperson said. "At 6:07 pm, a JetLite flight from Nagpur was to land,...
11:46 AM, Mar 23, 2012
Mumbai: You never know what you might find inside the garbage cans at Mumbai airport. Now before you start planning to get your hands dirty, let's clarify here that the matter pertains to the Air Intelligence Unit (AIU) of Mumbai customs busting a smuggling racket involving some employees at Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport (CSIA). The smuggler would drop their consignment inside a designated garbage box placed near the international terminal...
10:16 AM, Mar 14, 2012
Mumbai: A former starlet went missing from the Mumbai airport leaving her two children stranded on their way to London. However, 24 hours later, the police tracked her and reunited her with her two teenage sons. Cops found Vaishali Hazare, 41, near a temple in Vile Parle after her husband registered a missing persons complaint with the Versova police. The authorities suspect that marital discord between Vaishali and her husband...
10:16 AM, Mar 06, 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
Mumbai: For the last two months, an 80-year-old woman has been waiting for a reply to one seemingly simple question: why did an attendant -- who had been appointed for the express purpose of wheeling her out of the airport and into the arrivals section -- abandon her in her wheelchair for over two hours in the middle of a sprawling Mumbai airport, with no explanation? "The wheelchair arrived half...
03:21 PM, Mar 01, 2012
Mumbai: For the first time in recent years, both runways of the Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport in Mumbai will be shut for construction work for 5 hours on Saturday. Operations will be closed between 11:30 am to 4:30 pm. Flights or passengers are not likely to be affected, as airlines had been informed of this three months in advance. However, passengers who have to rush to other cities urgently during...
08:47 AM, Feb 25, 2012
New Delhi: Delhi and Mumbai airports are earning the least 'aeronautical' revenue per passenger compared to other airports of the world, according to a survey. As per the list of 50 countries prepared by Leigh Fisher Management consultants, Delhi airport is at the bottom of the list with meagre 1.97 SDRs compared to Japan's Narita airport with 17.86 SDRs. Mumbai stands at the second last place with 2.09 SDRs. The...
10:46 AM, Feb 24, 2012
14 flights from Mumbai, 4 out of Delhi and 10 from Bangalore have been cancelled on Thursday. ...
01:15 PM, Feb 22, 2012
Mumbai: Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport (CSIA), Mumbai, has been adjudged among the top three performing airports of last year in the airport service quality survey, by the Airport Council International (ACI), an official said here on Thursday. While the Indira Gandhi International Airport at New Delhi has been ranked the first in India and the second best globally, Mumbai's CSIA ranks the third best airport globally, and has emerged the...
01:06 PM, Feb 16, 2012
Mumbai: An Air Traffic Control staff at the Mumbai airport averted a tragedy on Wednesday evening by aborting the takeoff of Jet Airways' Goa-bound flight carrying 158 passengers when another plane was about to touch down. The ATC asked the Jet pilot to abort the takeoff as an IndiGo flight was about to land, airport sources said. "As instructed by the air traffic controllers, Jet flight from Mumbai to Goa...
09:22 PM, Feb 08, 2012
Mumbai: In the latest incident of duty evasions by the actors, the custom officials fined actor Dia Mirza a sum of Rs 1.25 lakh at the Mumbai International Airport on Saturday. The penalty was imposed on the actor for carrying undeclared goods while returning returning from Bangkok. She was let off after paying the fine. Mirza was carrying undeclared items worth Rs 2 lakh upon her arrival at Mumbai airport,...
10:30 AM, Jan 07, 2012
Mumbai: There was high drama at Mumbai airport on Sunday evening as an Air India flight to Dubai got delayed by five hours. The passengers complained that they were not informed about the reasons for delay. AI flight 957 was supposed to take off at 8 pm. Not having been informed about the cause for delay, the agitated passengers created a ruckus inside the plane. ...
09:57 AM, Jan 02, 2012
New Delhi: Kingfisher chairman Vijay Mallya has said he is in talks with an Indian investor to bail out Kingfisher Airlines. This even as Mumbai Airport authorities have put the airline on notice for not paying dues up to Rs 90 crore, threatening to disallow flights to Mumbai airport, if the airline does not abide by its terms of payment. The airline has started paying the airport daily as per...
10:43 PM, Dec 02, 2011
New Delhi: Vijay Mallya-led Kingfisher Airlines is in more trouble with several airports slapping the aviation major notices to clear their dues. Mumbai airport has issued notice to Kingfisher Airlines to pay usage charges immediately amounting to Rs 90 crore. Sources say that the airline has been told to pay the amount by Saturday. They added that if the airline fails to pay the dues, it will be put on...
03:58 PM, Dec 01, 2011
New Delhi: A proposal for a big hike in landing, parking, navigation and other charges at the Delhi and Mumbai airports is being considered by the Airports Economic Regulatory Authority (AERA) and a decision is likely by early next year. The AERA is seeking the views of airport users, including airlines, on the multi-year tariff proposals of Delhi International Airport Limited (DIAL) and Mumbai International Airport Limited (MIAL) to hike...
10:41 AM, Oct 16, 2011
Mumbai: The Mumbai airport, at present, caters to 29 million passengers a year, and the overburdened airport is expected to reach its peak saturation capacity of 40 million passengers by 2012. Its only hope is the Navi Mumbai International airport, around 30 km away from it. The airport has an original deadline of 2012, but just a few months away from that deadline, all that has come up on this...
10:17 PM, Oct 15, 2011
Mumbai: Navi Mumbai Airport has been hit by another road block after farmers demanded Rs 20 crores per acre as compensation. Farmers are demanding 4 to 5 times the market rate, for over a thousand acres of land, needed for the airport. Apart from this, they are also demanding rehabilitation and jobs. Twenty-nine million passengers a year now and this overburdened airport is expected to reach its peak saturation capacity...
08:16 AM, Oct 13, 2011
Hubli: The Intelligence Agencies on Sunday received a tip off that a hijacked private plane from Hubli airport in North Karnataka could be used to carry out a terror strike on a high rise building in Mumbai, along the lines of 9/11. Following the alarming terror threat, the security was put at an all-time high. As part of the security measures, there was a three-fold increase in the number of...
08:26 AM, Sep 26, 2011
New Delhi: The security at the Mumbai airport has been tightened in view of an alert sent by central agencies. Security at the Chhatrapati Shivaji airport has been put on high alert after an alert was sent by central agencies of a possible threat from an aircraft. Unwilling to take any chance, the Mumbai Police has beefed up the security at the airport following last week's bomb blast outside the...
10:32 AM, Sep 13, 2011
