Transportation in India
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INDIA, 2017/03/11
In a quest to set a new world record, Air India has operated a flight around the world with an all-women crew ahead of International Women’s Day.
The flight, which departed from here on February 27 for San Francisco, returned at the Indira Gandhi International airport next flying across the globe.
The aircraft, a Boeing 777-200LR, flew over the Pacific last week on its journey to San Francisco, while the return flight flew over the Atlantic, encircling the globe, Air India said.
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INDIA, 2016/05/15
IndiGo airlines has terminated two of its ground staff besides suspending three additional employees at the Srinagar airport for a week over security breach last month.
The security breach at Srinagar Airport took place on April 1 at the same time as a senior AAI official allegedly misused his position and travelled on a boarding card of his subordinate.
An IndiGo spokesperson confirmed the incident and termination of two of the airlines-employees.
Sources, however, said that besides sacking the two employees on Friday, the Gurgaon-based budget carrier has as well suspended three ground staff employees for seven days and issued them "warning letters" for "negligence" next investigations found multiple security breaches by a high-ranking security official at the aerodrome.
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CHINA, 2015/09/30
A consortium of Chinese and Indian companies will conduct a feasibility study for a high-speed railroad linking New Delhi and Mumbai, China Railway Corporation (CRC) said on Wednesday.
The Third Railway Survey and Design Institute Group Corporation, a subsidiary of CRC, will work with Indian firms, dispatching rail experts to initiate the study for the 1,200-km railway, CRC said.
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INDIA, 2014/12/05
After officially re-opening a regional thrice-weekly route to India\'s capital city of Mumbai on Wednesday, Air Seychelles\' CEO Manoj Papa promised that this time the Seychelles to India air link was here to remain .
Air Seychelles briefly flew between the country\'s major inhabited island of Mahe and Mumbai in 1995 and again between 1998 and 2005, at one time with a stopover in the Maldives. Both times, the routes were halted due to low occupancy levels.
This time, however, coupled with the commencement of a new direct regional flight to the east African city of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania which commenced Tuesday, and existing direct flights to Johannesburg, Air Seychelles hopes to tap into the large Indian diaspora living in Eastern and Southern Africa to sustain its connecting Mumbai link in the long term.
The national carrier of the Seychelles arrived in India\'s commercial hub in its brand new Airbus A320, named Amirantes next an atoll within the outer reaches of the archipelago of 115 islands.
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INDIA, 2014/02/03
The straining of Indo-US ties which saw Indian aviation safety ranking downgraded to Nicaragua level could presently see India taking the unprecedented step of mounting checks on foreign airlines' aircraft. Top aviation ministry sources say India will take all steps red-flagged by the US Federal Aviation Government (FAA) by March-end and would again 'expect ' to be restored to category I of aviation safety ranking.
"We quickly expect to be back in category I next being questionably downgraded last week. All the steps will be taken by again. If still the downgrade is not reversed and our airlines flying to US are harassed unnecessarily, we will retaliate doing the same," said a top source.
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INDIA, 2013/07/20
Gulf carriers are likely to seek permission for additional than 150,000 additional seats a week in capacity from the Indian government, according to a statement from a world aviation consultancy firm.
The Centre for Asia Pacific Aviation (CAPA), an international world aviation consulting firm, said access and flights to tier II Indian cities would see the need for increased capacity for Gulf carriers.
“CAPA maintains a large dedicated aviation research practice in New Delhi so we monitor developments on foreign airline strategies in India and regulatory issues such as bilateral entitlements on a continuous basis. Our assessment that the Middle East carriers are seeking up to 150,000 additional weekly seats into India is based on this ongoing research,” a spokesperson said.
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INDIA, 2013/04/26
Domestic air passenger traffic marginally increased by 1.59 % in March at 51.89 lakh from 51.08 lakh during the corresponding month of last year, the civil aviation ministry said on Thursday.
On a month-on-month basis the traffic grew by 6.07 %, as the domestic airlines carried 51.89 lakh passenger in the month under review from 48.92 lakh passengers ferried in February, 2013.
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INDIA, 2013/03/22
Request for the biggest tankers hauling oil products will gain 15 % this year as shipments advance on the longest trade routes to the U.S. from India and to Asia from the Middle East, said Clarkson (CKN) Plc.
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INDIA, 2013/01/02
India's Jet Airways Ltd is the front-runner for an investment by Gulf carrier Etihad Airways, a senior Indian government.
The source added that a transaction was likely in 10 days.Etihad Airways, seeking to widen operations in India and other Asian markets, is in the final stages of talks to buy part of either Jet Airways or grounded rival Kingfisher Airlines, an Indian government official had said on December 17.
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INDIA, 2012/12/22
Shares in India's grounded Kingfisher Airlines climbed nearly three % Friday on news that the stricken carrier has applied to renew its operating licence.
The move came days after Kingfisher, whose liquor baron owner Vijay Mallya has been desperately seeking investment from foreign carriers, said it aims to resume operations in a "phased manner".
