New Delhi: Country’s nodal aviation security body BCAS is in the process of hiring around 400-500 personnel, which would help it tide over the acute manpower shortage ahead of India’s aviation safety audit by the UN aviation watchdog ICAO. Besides, the Finance Ministry has also given its go ahead to the Civil Aviation Ministry to…
New Delhi: An Air India flight from Mumbai to Jodhpur had to make an emergency landing on Tuesday afternoon at the IGI airport after a hydraulic problem was detected in it while it was air bound. Airport officials said around 12.26pm, the pilot of the Air India flight-AI645, noticed vibration in the engine of the…
Mumbai: National carrier Air India Tuesday signed an agreement with RITES,the state run consultant specializing in transport infrastructure service covering railways, airports, highways, ports and harbours, to work together on future projects. The two companies will cooperate in areas of planning, design and construction management of aircraft maintenance hangars, Maintenance Repair and Overhaul (MRO), buildings,…
New Delhi: Low cost carrier, AirAsia India, is planning to more than treble its employee headcount from current 800 to about 2,500 over the next 12 months. The expansion in the employee base comes from the Indo-Malaysian airline’s plan to add eight new aircraft in the next year in India. The airline — a three-way…
Thane: City and Industrial Development Corporation of Maharashtra Ltd (CIDCO) will set up an Aviation Academy for the training of manpower required for the proposed Navi Mumbai International airport, its joint managing director V Radha said. The work of the proposed airport is likely to begin next year and the first phase has been scheduled…
Mumbai: The Director General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has revised its rules governing assessment of co-pilots by senior pilots, designated as training captains. The move comes after the aviation regulator discovered that some of the trainer pilots could have shown bias while training juniors. Training captains, who are from the industry, are engaged for assessing…
Ahmedabad: Over the last six months authorities of the Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel international airport has been flooded with calls of youth claiming to have been given jobs at the terminus. Though the airport director was not available for comment, top Airport Authority of India officials said that gullible youth are being scammed by some people…
Thane: A fraudster who had started an aviation engineering college in Kalyan and pocketed hefty fees from students, was recently held guilty by the district consumer redressal forum. He has been directed to refund Rs 60,000 to a girl student who had dragged him to the forum. The student, Swapnali Gade, had filed a complaint…
Jorhat: Seven people, including two women,have been arrested in Assam’s Jorhat district on charge of conducting recruitment for a fake aviation institute, a senior police officer said today. The seven, who have been arrested, had posed themselves as the academy’s ‘director’ and faculty members. They have been identified as Sandip Kumar (director) and ‘faculty members’…
New Delhi: As many as 62 pilots of Jet Airways and Air India have flown out of the two airlines in a little over one year to join other carriers, with a majority of them boarding the Rahul Bhatia-promoted IndiGo. While private carrier Jet Airways has lost 30 pilots in 15 months to budget carrier…
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