Sanjay Kumar, Chief Commercial Officer of IndiGo, has resigned from the airline, with effect from 15 th July 2018, to pursue other career interests. Rahul Bhatia, Interim CEO of IndiGo, said “I would like to thank Sanjay for all he has done for the Company in making IndiGo the airline it is. We are successful…
NEW DELHI: The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) is probing an incident in which passengers of an AirAsia India flight from Kolkata to Bagdogra got into an altercation with the airline staff after delay in departure, the civil aviation minister has said. Some passengers on the AirAsia India flight had yesterday an altercation with…
New Delhi: Two planes of SpiceJet and Indigo suffered bird hits during landing at Patna’s Jai Prakash Narayan International Airport last Saturday, and both had to cancel their onwards journey. The incident, though, is nothing out of the ordinary for the Patna airport. There are several factors that contribute to make the airport one of…
New Delhi: India’s aviation growth is set to take a hit as key airports around the country have run out of preferred slots and parking space, putting the squeeze on the growth plans of domestic carriers. The problem is especially acute for newer carriers such as Vistara and AirAsia India, which are still in the…
All International Airline Pilots speak English. Flights longer than 8 hours require 3 pilots (1 captain and 2 first officers) to rotate flying duties. Flights longer than 12 hours require 4 pilots (1 captain and 3 first officers). They usually fly 3-4 hour shifts. Each airline pilot flying the aircraft, eats a different meal to…
MUMBAI: Boeing and Air India Engineering Services Ltd (AIESL) on Thursday, 14 June 2018 kicked off a first-of-its-kind, one-year accelerated Aircraft Maintenance Engineer Apprenticeship Programme in India. The programme, part of the the government’s skill development initiative, will be run as a finishing school and conducted at the Air India engineering facility in Kalina. It will…
Indian Aviation is continuing to be fastest growing Aviation markets in the world and the IATA predicts that India will displace the UK to the Third Spot in the Global Aviation Market by 2025 just next to China and the United States. IATA analysed this only with the data it has on the traffic without…
Industry financial performance improved in Q1 2018, driven by European airlines Despite the ongoing pressure on airline equities, the latest financial results from Q1 2018 have continued to point to a pick-up in industry-wide financial performance relative to the same period a year ago. The EBIT margin in our sample of 73 airlines rose to 5.7%, from 4.7% a…
HONG KONG, June 8, 2018 : A full value-chain aircraft solutions provider for global airlines, is pleased to announce that Asia’s first large-scale aircraft recycling facility, China Aircraft Recycling Remanufacturing Base (The “Base”), owned by Aircraft Recycling International Limited (“ARI”), a member company of the Group, has formally commenced operation today. The Base is equipped…
For the past five years running, Airbus has defeated Boeing in terms of a fatter order book. In 2017, the European aviation firm bagged 1,109 orders compared to the US plane maker’s 912. But this year, Airbus has lost out multiple orders to Boeing, be it Hawaiian Holdings Inc, American Airlines Group Inc or Vistara,…
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