With projects such as the Bangalore Airport partnership, India is building infrastructure and guidelines for electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft.
Implementation of new norms, introduced in January to ease pilots' working hours, rest periods, has been deferred. Pilots complain of constantly-changing roster & being 'financial slaves'.
Despite its optimism, analysts note the carrier has been close to collapse about 6 times since it began operations in 2005, raising doubts about sustainability of recovery efforts.
A deep dive into emergency procedures triggered by a bomb threat, the various kinds of threats including hoaxes & challenges faced by agencies in investigating these threats.
The global tech outage has affected several airlines including Akasa, SpiceJet & IndiGo. Electronics & IT minister says 'reason for outage identified' & govt is in touch with Microsoft.
According to a statement by the airport, commercial operations likely to begin next year 'in view of the current construction status'. It was supposed to commence operations by 2024 end.
Sector analysts warn that with Go First expected to remain grounded & SpiceJet struggling, industry is likely to consolidate to just 2-3 player market, hampering competition.
About 300 employees had called in sick Wednesday, allegedly in protest against mismanagement of airlines. Remaining staff given ultimatum to rejoin work by end of Thursday.
Tata Group-owned Air India Express has cancelled more than 70 scheduled flights and delayed many others after a section of its cabin crew called in sick at the last minute.
Ventures by Japan, South Korea and Taiwan illustrate how the race for REE security is accelerating, powered by both geopolitical tension and industrial strategy.
ThePrint had previously reported that India & Russia are talking about 5 more regiments of the S-400, but no contracts are to be signed during the Russian president's visit.
It is a brilliant, reasonably priced, and mostly homemade aircraft with a stellar safety record; only two crashes in 24 years since its first flight. But its crash is a moment of introspection.
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