A tail strike occurs when an aircraft's tail makes contact with runway during take-off or landing. IndiGo saw 4 tail strikes in 6 months, resulting in fine last week from DGCA.
The Indian budget carrier placed a record order for 500 narrowbody jets from Airbus recently, while it already has 480 carriers in store from previous orders.
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.
Rakesh Gangwal and Rahul Bhatia, who co-founded IndiGo in 2006, fell out in early 2020 when the former sought to modify certain rules in the company's articles of association.
In Episode 1544 of CutTheClutter, Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta looks at some top economists pointing to the pitfalls of ‘currency nationalism’ with data from 1991 to 2004.
The decorated Naga officer from Manipur also served as envoy to Myanmar & Nagaland chief secy. Defence Minister Rajnath Singh inaugurated a museum dedicated to the Tawang hero Thursday.
Congress is silently acknowledging it over-read verdict of last general election. You can see it in easy concession to SP. It will likely be more reasonable in Maharashtra & Jharkhand.
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