Delhi HC was hearing a challenge to Centre’s decision to revoke security clearance for the Turkish ground-handling firm, citing threats to airport security at multiple Indian airports.
While expatriate pilots are hired at significantly higher salaries, Indian pilots’ salaries have been stagnant for over a decade, with allowances even being reduced after the Covid-19 pandemic.
Over 510 flights have been hit by hoax bomb threats in the past couple of weeks. Despite arrests and suspicions of Sikh radical links, authorities still have no clear answers.
Action comes in wake of 20-hr delay in Delhi-San Francisco flight, during which passengers were kept seated inside aircraft for hours. Mumbai-San Francisco flight also saw delay on 24 May.
Unifying India's four airspace regions into one, controlled from Nagpur, is expected to make air traffic operations more efficient, safer and seamless, enabling it to handle more capacity.
New Delhi: While private sector investment picked up in the April-June quarter of this financial year, this was concentrated in the transport sector, especially aviation,...
Airbus officially booked orders for 500 jets from budget carrier IndiGo and 250 from Air India that were announced or finalised at last month's Paris Airshow.
About 80% of the new aircraft orders at Paris Air Show were placed by two Indian airlines. But behind the optimistic outlook for India’s aviation market lies a concern.
Without a Congress revival, there can be no challenge to the BJP pan-nationally. Modi’s party is growing, and almost entirely at the cost of the Congress.
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