Bangalore, 20 Dec, 2007 : India's biggest discount carrier, Deccan, will merge with liquor baron Vijay Mallya's up market Kingfisher Airlines to create a mega airline. Deccan Aviation Ltd will merge its scheduled airline operations into the unlisted Kingfisher Airlines, to create one of the bigge...
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New Delhi, Aug. 25 : The union ministry of corporate affairs has approved the merger of state-run Air India and Indian Airlines, a government statement said on Friday. With the approval, the legal process for the merger of the two state-run airlines into National Aviation Company Limited is compl...
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New Delhi, 7 Jan, 2008 : With fuel comprising 40% of the total cost, airlines, especially low cost carriers, are trying to find out means of optimizing fuel efficiency. Airlines globally are stressing on adopting various models to save fuel and are also following a strict regime of regular aircra...
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New Delhi, October 21 (ANI): Kingfisher Airlines head Vijay Mallya indicated on Monday that if the slump in the market continues, more job cuts and lay-offs may take place in the aviation industry. He, however, refused to say whether he had met any ministers or government officials over the cris...
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New Delhi, June 3, 2008 : Rising inflation in India has hit almost all sectors of industries. With fuel prices rising, the aviation sector is one of the worst hit. Indian government is concerned about the impact of rising jet fuel prices on the financial health of airlines. Civil Aviation Minist...
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New Delhi,Aug.28,: The Directorate General of Civil Aviation is planning to implement “slotting” of flights by January 2008 which means, that any flight that fails to take off on time will be grounded for several hours. According to directorate records, national carriers Air India and Indian and ...
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New Delhi, Feb 1, 2008 : Affected by rising fuel prices, the aviation industry is planning to introduce a ‘differential fuel surcharge’ based on VAT rates in each state to partially make up for the losses suffered. The idea was mooted during an all-India civil aviation meet attended by ministers ...
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New Delhi, Nov. 16 : There’s good news for all those who are planning a holiday this winter. All international airlines will be allowed to operate with unlimited capacity on their existing routes from December 1 to January 31. This essentially means that the airlines can operate bigger aircraft o...
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New Delhi, Feb 13, 2008 : According to reports Kingfisher Airlines will be starting its first international flight between Bangalore and San Francisco in August this year followed by Bangalore-New York and Mumbai-London flights during the same month. Kingfisher after its merger with Air Deccan wi...
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New Delhi, Nov. 21 : Jet Airways has entered into an agreement with US private carrier American Airlines for some domestic flights out of New York. The agreement is of a code sharing nature which refers to an arrangement where a flight operated by an airline is jointly marketed as a flight for on...
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New Delhi, September 25 , 2008 : India’s low-cost carrier SpiceJet has been ranked amongst the top ten-budget airline in Asia by an online travel magazine. The magazine, Smart Travel Asia, based its finding on a survey between May and July on low cost carriers. According to the survey, ...
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New Delhi, 12 Jan, 2008 : Bahadur Chand Gupta, a former airline engineer fulfilled a decade old dream when he bought a decommissioned Indian Airlines plane in 2003. After nearly one-and-half-years of working on it, he managed to put it all together in Dwarka. The plane has been cut down to about ...
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