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Thursday, August 14, 2025
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Topic: Aviation industry

Air India begins to polish its image in its quest for elusive buyers

Air India is trying to make itself more attractive to bidders by deploying more high-end seats & adding new flights by repairing grounded aircraft.

Privatising Air India only option, impossible to service its debt burden: Hardeep Singh Puri

At ThePrint’s Off The Cuff, Minister for Civil Aviation Hardeep Singh Puri says he wakes up to the ‘challenge of privatising Air India every day’.

Boeing without 737s is like Coca-Cola without Diet Coke

Making & servicing commercial airplanes accounts for about 80% of Boeing’s operating income & 737 series accounts for about 70% of commercial deliveries.

Boeing says India will be fastest-growing market over 20 years

Boeing's latest forecast is slightly higher than the one it made in December 2018, when it said India would require 2,300 new aircraft for $320 billion over 20 years.

Modi govt plans to open 100 more airports by 2024

Modi govt proposal includes starting 1,000 new routes connecting smaller cities and launching a plane-lease financing business in the country.

6 months after Jet Airways was grounded, 33% of its slots are still vacant at airports

The Jet Airways slots are vacant at some prominent airports such as the ones in Chennai, Guwahati, Kolkata, Jodhpur, Pune, Lucknow and Indore.

Air India promises to clear Rs 5,000-crore due, oil companies hold decision to stop fuel

Three state-owned companies had threatened to stop aviation turbine fuel supplies to six major airports over payment delays by Air India.

International experts fault regulators who cleared 737 Max’s fatal design changes

The Joint Authorities Technical Review revealed that Boeing exerted undue pressure on its employees to approve design changes that have been implicated in 2 crashes.

India plans to conduct its own checks on Boeing 737 Max jets

India will join the European Aviation Safety Agency, which is planning to send its own pilots to the US to conduct flight tests of the 737 Max.

Grounding the 737 Max eases turbulence for airlines

A 737 takes off or lands somewhere in the world every 1.5 seconds, and there are about 2,800 in the air at any moment. But it may be beneficial to ground them.

On Camera

India’s land acquisition disputes have a way out. Both Japan and Gujarat have used it

India’s archaic land laws fuel delays, cost overruns and gridlock in everything from highways to housing. Something has to give.

Slashing GST on waste can unlock Rs 1.8 lakh crore, high tax hurting circular economy goals—CSE

Centre for Science and Environment in new report makes case for rationalising GST on waste material, saying most informal operators can’t afford high tax & it also hinders recycling.

India, US troops to undertake joint military exercise next month, first after Op Sindoor

21st edition of annual joint military exercise will be held from 1 to 16 September, aimed at sharing military tech, operational best practices & disaster relief coordination methods.

Modi’s ready to risk it all for farmers. Farm reform can answer Trump with new Green Revolution

Standing up to America is usually not a personal risk for a leader in India. Any suggestions of foreign pressure unites India behind who they see as leading them in that fight.