Archive for September, 2009

When the owner of a private airline calls his pilots “terrorists,” something is seriously amiss. But that is exactly what Jet Airways chief Naresh Goyal did this month.

The slowdown-hit domestic aviation industry is witnessing some stability in passenger traffic, though it would take some more time for the overall recovery, aviation experts and organisations feel.

AirAsia, Asia’s leading low cost airline, will fly to Kochi, Trivandrum and Kolkata come December, in a move to expand its network in Southern India.

The National Aviation Company of India, which operates Air India, will receive around US$418 million from the government by December or early January, in the first tranche of an equity infusion, Dow Jones reported.

Air India has begun a global hunt for a chief operating officer to streamline operations and help it come out of the financial mess that has led to accumulated losses of over $4 billion.

The Delhi High court has directed Kingfisher Airlines to return all components leased out to it by Lufthansa Technik India following a petition by the latter that the carrier was using them even after it breached an obligation to make timely payments.

If you go by their performance in the September quarter, it looks like the countdown to better times has already begun.

Air India has said that about half of its flights have been disrupted after pilots reported sick for a fourth consecutive day as part of a protest.

The Cochin International Airport Ltd (CIAL), which has earned the reputation of being a model airport in the country, has crossed another important milestone by launching an academy in the aviation sector, said Chief Minister V S Achuthanandan here on Friday.

Civil Aviation Secretary M Madhavan Nambiar on Friday said that the Aviation industry was going through a very difficult phase turning thousands of pilots and other specialized staff jobless in the country.