Aviation

Air India has sought a Rs 24 billion guarantee from the government to raise fresh funds primarily to meet its working capital requirements as it is currently facing a financial crunch. The guarantee is part […]

The Ministry of Civil Aviation (MoCA) has launched the fourth round of the Regional Connectivity Scheme – UDAN – to further enhance connectivity to the country’s remote and regional areas. Under this round, the focus […]

The central government inaugurated Gulbarga airport in Karnataka on November 22, 2019. With this, commercial operations at the airport have commenced and the first flight from Bengaluru landed at the aerodrome the same day. The […]

Switzerland-based Zurich Airport International AG was selected as the concessionaire for the Jewar greenfield international airport project in Greater Noida on November 29, 2019. Recently, on December 9, 2019, the Uttar Pradesh cabinet approved the […]

IndiGo has become a member of the International Air Transport Association (IATA) and this will help the airline form commercial partnerships with member airlines across the world. The airline has become the second low-fare carrier […]

NEC Technologies India, a wholly owned subsidiary of NEC Corporation, has bagged a contract from AAI to implement a biometric-based boarding platform across four airports. These are the Lal Bahadur Shastri airport (Varanasi), Netaji Subhas […]

The National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) has asked the Synergy Group, the only potential suitor for Jet Airways, to appear before the bench to express its willingness to revive the grounded carrier. The MoCA and […]

India is planning to open 100 additional airports by 2024, as part of a plan to revive economic growth in the country. For this, the government has committed investments worth Rs 1 trillion for the […]

Adani Enterprises Limited, the Fairfax India Holdings Corporation, Anchorage Infrastructure Investments Holdings and GMR Infrastructure Limited are the four bidders that have qualified for the Jewar greenfield airport in Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh. The bids […]

The central government is expected to inaugurate Kalaburagi airport on November 22, 2019. Spread across 740 acres of land, the airport has been developed at a cost of Rs 1.75 billion. It was approved in […]

Vistara has signed an agreement with CFM International for the purchase of 26 Leap-1A engines worth $2.4 billion to power 13 of its new A320neos. The agreement also includes a long-term rate per flight hour agreement […]

IndiGo has placed an order for 300 Airbus aircraft worth an estimated $33 billion to replace old planes in its fleet and to operate non-stop flights to long-haul destinations such as London and Tokyo. The […]

Dilip Buildcon Limited has emerged as the lowest bidder (L1) for detailed designing and engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) works for the Rajkot greenfield airport project. The company has quoted an amount of Rs 5,700.6 […]

The Adani Group has registered the company Adani Trivandrum International Airport Limited despite the airport’s privatisation plan facing persistent resistance from the Kerala government. In June 2019, the state government had demanded that Trivandrum airport […]

The Ministry of Civil Aviation, in a recent meeting, has declined the request of airlines to increase bilateral foreign flying rights on short-haul destinations with certain countries and instead asked airlines to look at other […]

IndiGo’s promoter Rahul Bhatia and the IGE Group have submitted a request for arbitration in the London Court of International Arbitration against partner Rakesh Gangwal on issues of compliance with the shareholders’ agreement and articles […]

The expert appraisal committee has granted environmental clearances for the development of the proposed commercial airport at Kutch in Gujarat as well as for taking up expansion works at Hyderabad airport. For the airport at […]

The first commercial flight from Hindon airport (adjacent to an Indian Air Force airbase) commenced on October 11, 2019. This comes long after the airport was inaugurated in March 2019. A nine-seater plane operated by […]

As many as 19 bidders, including GMR Infrastructure Limited, Reliance Infrastructure Limited and the Adani Group, have shown interest in the development of the Jewar international greenfield airport in Gautam Buddh Nagar in Greater Noida. […]

The Ministry of Civil Aviation (MoCA) is expected to seek approval from the central government for privatisation of six airports – Varanasi, Amritsar, Bhubaneswar, Tiruchirappalli, Indore and Raipur. While the Airports Authority of India’s (AAI) […]