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Monday, August 18, 2025
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Topic: Airlines

Airlines and airports will need very expensive revamp to survive in the virus era

Airlines have been burning through $10 billion a month as passenger totals have tumbled more than 90 per cent during the past month.

No in-flight magazines, health checks, longer queues — How flying could change post Covid

With potential passengers losing their jobs, air travel will likely become much more expensive, and the sector may take years to recover.

This is what happens to the world’s planes when they can’t fly for weeks

Finding the right space and conditions for 62% of the world’s planes and keeping them airworthy have suddenly become priorities for 2020.

Now, return of Boeing 737 Max has to overcome work-from-home challenge

Boeing has to pull off the ultimate work-from-home challenge: Certifying an airplane with regulators who are self-isolating on different continents.

GoAir suspends international flights, offers leave without pay to staff in view of COVID-19

GoAir also proposed to give 20 per cent pay cut for staff in a staggered manner to help the airline sustain till normalcy in passenger traffic returns.

Five things that will redefine the way you fly

From creating a system that purifies air around premium seats to linking passengers’ faces to their passports, the world of aviation and the way we travel is changing fast.

Will protect interests of staff, Air India chief assures amid disinvestment jitters

While the government plans to invite bids for the airline next month, employee unions have decided to oppose it, citing salary and pension discrepancies.

Now mobile phones suspected to be endangering hundreds of Boeing 737 and 777 planes

Boeing cockpit screens were vulnerable to interference from Wi-Fi, mobile phones & even outside frequencies, US FAA found in 2014.

Do risk assessment during adverse weather conditions, aviation regulator DGCA tells airlines

The Directorate General of Civil Aviation in India issued a circular after incidences of planes overshooting runways.

Boeing struggles to convince tough crowd of airline bosses on safety of 737 MAX

At the IATA event in Seoul, airline chiefs told Boeing it must convince regulators worldwide about the 737 MAX’s safety, not just the US’ FAA.

On Camera

Postcards from Hyderabad—stories Europeans told about the city

For all their colonial underpinnings, postcards from Hyderabad also inadvertently preserve a trace of local memory: a glimpse of a street, a face, a forgotten name.

Navigating Trump’s tariffs is no child’s play. Indian toymakers are losing out on orders, enquiries

Indian toymakers are now exploring new markets, but they want govt to negotiate a trade deal with US soon, introduce incentives and subsidies to make the industry more competitive.

What is Project Sudarshan Chakra, announced by Modi from ramparts of Red Fort

The project is meant to be a ‘protective shield that will keep expanding’, the PM said. It is on the lines of the ‘Golden Dome’ announced by Trump, it is learnt.

War of IAF, PAF doctrines: As Pakistan obsesses over numbers, India embraces risk, wins

Now that both IAF and PAF have made formal claims of having shot down the other’s aircraft in the 87-hour war in May, we can ask a larger question: do such numbers really matter?