Chennai: Passengers on-board a Hyderabad-Chennai Spicejet fight on Tuesday escaped unhurt, when the plane suffered a tyre burst during landing at the Chennai airport. A rear wheel tyre of Spicejet flight SG 971 burst while landing and smoke was observed, but the plane was stopped safely on the runway. All 96 passengers and seven crew members were safely evacuated from the Spicejet fight, which landed at 10.45 am. The aircraft...
02:15 PM, Apr 19, 2011
New Delhi: The DGCA has stepped in aggressively in the fake pilot scam as one of its top officials, the Director of flight operations RS Passi was removed from his post on Tuesday. The disciplinary action was taken after Spicejet wrote to DGCA alleging nepotism on behalf of Passi. The Spicejet complaint said that RS Passi's daughter Garima Passi got a job as a pilot with Spice Jet under "extraordinary...
09:14 AM, Apr 19, 2011
Jaipur: Two pilots of budget carrier SpiceJet were arrested on Monday for allegedly obtaining commercial pilot licence on the basis of forged flying certificates, officials said. They will be produced in a special court on Wednesday. "Anoop Choudhary and Amit Moondra were arrested for obtaining commercial pilot licence by submitting forged flying certificates. Both the pilots are employed with SpiceJet at New Delhi," IG Rajasthan Anti-Corruption Bureau, Umesh Mishra, said...
07:55 AM, Mar 22, 2011
New Delh: A day after Civil Aviation Ministry warned the airlines against predatory pricing, aviation regulator the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) made it clear to the private airlines in a meeting in New Delhi on Saturday that steep airfares have to come down. A meeting between DGCA officials, Civil Aviation Ministry and private airlines represented by SpiceJet was held in New Delhi where the airline companies were asked...
04:36 PM, Dec 04, 2010
The airline claims a market share of 13 per cent and operates 129 flights daily to 18 cities. ...
08:22 PM, Jun 12, 2010
The Boeing 737-800 was made to turn around after it was learnt that it had suffered a tyre-burst. ...
06:45 PM, May 24, 2010
The year 2010 has started with a lot of pain for the air traveller. ...
10:05 PM, Jan 12, 2010
Angry passengers have now demanded a compensation. ...
08:28 AM, Jan 12, 2010
Supriya recounts the agonising hours spent waiting in the Vishakhapatnam airport lobby. ...
05:07 PM, Jan 10, 2010
Passengers given boarding passes and then told the plane will not take off. ...
12:06 PM, Jan 10, 2010
Odafa Onyeka Okolie is accused of molesting SpiceJet airhostess. ...
11:38 PM, Jan 07, 2010
The deal is believed to be more that Rs 5 crore annually. ...
03:48 PM, Jan 07, 2010
CNN-IBN spoke to owner of Churchill Brothers,Churchill Alemao. ...
02:26 AM, Jan 07, 2010
They were accused of molesting an airhostess on board a Spicejet flight. ...
11:39 PM, Jan 06, 2010
The private air carrier did not reveal the identity of the offloaded pasengers. ...
12:13 AM, Jan 06, 2010
The FIA has called for a strike on Aug 18 to protest high taxes on jet fuel. ...
08:15 PM, Aug 02, 2009
ATF price hiked by more than six per cent on firming international oil prices. ...
08:41 PM, Jun 30, 2009
Experts had pointed out that merger would not be viable. ...
11:08 PM, Apr 20, 2009
SpiceJet reportedly plans to set up regional airline to connect smaller cities. ...
10:09 AM, Mar 09, 2009
