Kolkata: A SpiceJet flight with 127 people on board, including crew members, on Tuesday made an emergency landing at Bagdogra airport in Darjeeling district, airport sources said. The Bagdogra-Kolkata flight took off from Bagdogra airport in the afternoon but after sometime the pilot suspected some technical problem in the aircraft and decided to return back and asked the airport for permission to make emergency landing, the sources said. The plane...
11:07 PM, Aug 21, 2012
New Delhi: Low-cost carrier SpiceJet on Tuesday announced it would provide free air tickets for life to Indian medal winners of the London Olympics. Making the announcement, SpiceJet CEO Neil Mills said, "The nation is proud of their unprecedented performance. It is a matter of great honour for us to be associated with the sportspersons who brought recognition for India at London Olympics." The victory of Sushil Kumar, Yogeshwar Dutt,...
08:16 PM, Aug 14, 2012
New Delhi: A former Major-rank officer has alleged that he was discriminated against and harassed by the staff of SpiceJet because of his being a Muslim, a charge denied by the airline which said a "religious colour" was being given to an incident. Major Mohammad Ali Shah, who served in Indian Army as a Short Service Commissioned officer, has complained to the National Minority Commission (NCM), which is probing the...
07:15 PM, Jul 19, 2012
Mumbai: No-frills carriers increased their marker share in May, while the struggling Air India (AI) and Kingfisher Airlines continued to lose in the marketplace sweepstakes. While Air India saw the largest fall in market share in the reporting month to 16.2 per cent from 17.6 per cent in April, the second largest no-frills carrier SpiceJet saw its market share rising to 18.5 per cent from 17.7 per cent in April,...
09:54 PM, Jun 18, 2012
New Delhi: A bomb threat forced the evacuation of a SpiceJet flight at Delhi's IGI Airport on Sunday night.The threat was received for Spicejet flight SG 148 Delhi to Ahmedabad. It was reported that SpiceJet received a specific call about the threat. Security checks are underway right now and reportedly the passengers are still at the terminal. More details are awaited. ...
11:00 PM, Jun 17, 2012
Beijing: With a potential air market of hundreds of millions of people, airlines ought to be hammering on India's door - yet global airline executives say it would be madness to invest in a domestic carrier there, even if they were allowed to. Although India's economy is not the investor darling it was some years ago, the 1.2 billion population includes a sizeable middle class with increasing disposable income and...
09:23 AM, Jun 13, 2012
Mumbai: The Kalanithi Maran-led no-frills carrier, Spicejet, on Friday announced expansion of its international services to the Gulf market by connecting Delhi and Mumbai with Dubai daily from June 25. Spicejet said Dubai will be the airline's third international destination after Delhi-Kathmandu and Chennai-Colombo. In domestic market, SpiceJet connects 34 destinations. The Chennai-based carrier is offering an introductory price of Rs 4,477 (plus government taxes) one-way from both the domestic...
10:06 AM, Jun 09, 2012
Mumbai: Despite a marginal improvement in the seat factor, national carrier Air India (AI) has lost its market share in April, helping low-cost airline SpiceJet to become the third-largest airline in the month with a market share of 17.7 per cent, according to the latest data from the sectoral regulator DGCA. The fall in the market share of AI is significant as the national carrier has seen an improvement in...
10:33 PM, May 18, 2012
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
New Delhi: All but two major airlines in India have defaulted on paying airport charges, Civil Aviation Minister Ajit Singh said on Wednesday. IndiGo, the only profitable airline in the country, and privately-held GoAir have not defaulted on airport payments, Singh told lawmakers in a written reply. The government has initiated legal action against Kingfisher Airlines "towards dishonour of the cheques submitted" by the carrier, while Jet Airways and Spicejet...
08:57 PM, May 09, 2012
New Delhi: Overseas investors, which have been trimming their holdings in Kingfisher Airlines in the past three quarters, have increased their stake marginally in the cash-strapped carrier during the March quarter, according to data available with bourses. An analysis of shareholding patterns of airlines showed that Foreign Institutional Investors (FIIs) have increased their stakes both in Kingfisher and Jet Airways in three months ended March 2012. However, the shareholding pattern...
03:38 PM, Apr 26, 2012
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
New Delhi: The Supreme Court has issued notice to SpiceJet on the plea by a cerebral palsy-afflicted woman, accusing the airline of forcibly deplaning her from a flight to Goa from Kolkata and seeking compensation for it. A bench comprising Justice Aftab Alam and Justice Ranjana P Desai also sought replies from the Centre and the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) to the plea of Jeeja Ghosh, a teacher...
04:37 PM, Apr 05, 2012
Mumbai: No-frills airline SpiceJet on Wednesday said its shareholders had approved promoter Kalanithi Maran picking up an additional five per cent equity by infusing about Rs 100 crore in the company. The move will take the overall holding of promoters in the airline to 48.6 per cent. SpiceJet informed BSE that shareholders had approved the allotment of up to 42,900,000 equity shares to Maran on a preferential basis. The filing...
06:33 PM, Apr 04, 2012
Mumbai: SpiceJet promoter Kalanithi Maran will pump Rs 100 crore into the airline by picking up an additional 5 per cent equity-a development that stands out in the industry that is going through turbulent times mainly due to rising fuel costs. The fund infusion by billionaire Maran comes in sharp contrast to cash-starved Kingfisher Airlines which has been unable to raise fresh funds for a host of reasons, compounded by...
03:28 AM, Mar 03, 2012
Ahmedabad: The passengers of a Jaipur-Pune SpiceJet flight were deplaned at Ahmedabad and they were told that the plane had developed a technical snag. But the passengers cried foul as they later found out that the plane, that was meant to go to Pune, had in fact headed to Delhi. When the passengers confronted the officials of SpiceJet at the airport, they were told that the plane had been sent...
01:41 PM, Feb 29, 2012
Jeeja Ghosh, a woman suffering from cerebral palsy, was allegedly asked to deplane a SpiceJet flight at the Kolkata airport. ...
11:58 PM, Feb 21, 2012
Kolkata: 42-year-old Jeeja Ghosh, a woman suffering from cerebral palsy, was allegedly asked to deplane a SpiceJet flight at the Kolkata airport on Monday. A report in the national daily 'The Indian Express' said that the pilot mistook the passenger for a mentally challenged patient. Ghosh, who teaches at Kolkata's Indian Institute of Cerebral Palsy, was on her way to Goa. Apologising for the incident, the SpiceJet management said, "We...
07:37 PM, Feb 20, 2012
The situation seems grim, not just for Kingfisher Airlines, but for the aviation sector as a whole, what with Jet Airways and SpiceJet posting record losses. ...
04:46 PM, Feb 20, 2012
Kolkata: A woman suffering from cerebral palsy was allegedly asked to deplane a SpiceJet flight at the Kolkata airport. A report in the national daily 'The Indian Express' said that the pilot mistook the passenger for a mentally challenged patient. The 42-year-old woman, Jeeja Ghosh, who teaches at Kolkata's Indian Institute of Cerebral Palsy was on her way to Goa. Apologising for the incident, the SpiceJet management said, "'We deeply...
12:03 PM, Feb 20, 2012
