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.
After the illegal detention of Prema Wangjom Thongdok at Shanghai airport, China once again fell back on a deliberate playbook it has used for decades.
Order for 87 MALE drones will be split between 2 Indian firms in 64:36 ratio to ensure there are 2 independent manufacturing lines with at least 60% indigenous components.
The India-South Africa series-defining fact is the catastrophic decline of Indian red ball cricket where a visiting team can mock us with the 'grovel' word.
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