Aircraft
3 Indian airlines to need Rs 50,000 crore in 3 years to buy planes
Friday, July 16th, 2010Three major domestic carriers — Air India, Kingfisher Airlines and Jet Airways — will together require around $10-12 billion (Rs 47,000-Rs 560,000 crore) over the next two-three years to fund their aircraft acquisition plans, an aviation think tank has said.
Air India to set up maintenance base in UAE
Monday, June 21st, 2010The recent Air India Express crash in Mangalore has hastened a slew of measures to improve the safety and efficiency of Air India flights bound for Gulf destinations.
New Vice President for Boeing Military Aircraft in India
Monday, June 21st, 2010Bob Gower, a F/A-18 fighter plane expert, has been named as vice president of Boeing Military Aircraft division in India.
Jet Airways Leases Out Three Boeing Aircraft To Thai Airways
Saturday, March 27th, 2010In a bid to cut costs and rationalize capacity, India’s largest airline by market share Jet Airways said it has leased three of its wide-bodied B777-300 ER aircraft to Thai Airways for three years with immediate effect.
100 aircraft have no locators: Probe
Sunday, January 31st, 2010Andhra Congress strongman Y S R Reddy’s chopper crash report promises to open a can of worms by showing how mandatory norms have been violated for years without being detected. The chopper had crashed on September 2, 2009, and it took over 24 hours to locate the debris as its emergency locater transmitter (ELT) was [...]
AAI told to prune capital expenditure to improve finances
Wednesday, October 21st, 2009The government has asked state-owned Airports Authority of India (AAI) to prune its capital expenditure for it to improve finances and eventually list on the stock exchanges, but the move could undermine the agency’s efforts to modernise the country’s airports.
5-yr, 20 aircraft rules hitting Indian carriers
Wednesday, October 21st, 2009Foreign airlines, especially from the Gulf and Southeast Asia, have now deployed single aisle planes to fly out of a large number of Indian cities.