Indian air carrier, Air India, recently placed firm orders of over 200 jets with Boeing that include 20 787 Dreamliners, 10 777Xs, and 190 737 MAX narrow body aircrafts.
The order is expected to include popular A320neo family of planes including longer range A321XLRs, which will help expand its network into Europe and deeper into Southeast Asia.
Indian carriers now have the second-largest order book, with an over 6% share of the industry backlog, behind only the US, according to a 1 June report by Barclays.
IndiGo, India's largest airline by market share, placed order months after rival Air India announced it would buy 470 aircraft — 250 from Airbus & 220 from Boeing.
Akasa Air saw an increase of 0.8% from 4% to 4.8%. However, SpiceJet, which is struggling with financial woes and grounded aircrafts, saw its market share fall to 5.4% in May from 5.8% in April.
Action was initiated against the pilots after a complaint from the cabin crew regarding an unauthorised female passenger entering the cockpit of a Delhi-Leh flight last week.
Modi govt should provide better justifications for investing nine million taxpayers’ money in BSNL beyond providing connectivity to 25,000 villages and funding VRS for redundant employees.
Over generations, Bihar’s bane has been its utter lack of urbanisation. But now, even Bihar is urbanising. Or let’s say, rurbanising. Two decades under Nitish Kumar have created a new elite in its cities.
Indian govt officials last month skipped Turkish National Day celebrations in Delhi, in a message to Ankara following its support for Islamabad, particularly during Operation Sindoor.
Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.
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