Aviation

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. […]

L&T Infrastructure Development Company Limited has won an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract for the development of the Navi Mumbai international airport. The scope of work involves cut and fill works, terminal works including […]

The MoCA is making another effort to sell debt-ridden Air India for which a new asset sale plan is being drafted and is expected to be finalised soon. According to the ministry, the government must […]

The Ministry of Civil Aviation (MoCA) has set a deadline of March 31, 2022 for completion of the Itanagar (Hollangi) greenfield airport in Arunachal Pradesh. The project involves pavements for the runway, runway strips, turning […]

The Karnataka State Industrial and Infrastructure Development Corporation signed an MoU with the Airports Authority of India (AAI) for the development, operations and maintenance of Kalaburagi airport on August 24, 2019. With this, the long-delayed […]

The Gautam Buddh Nagar administration has acquired and transferred 83 hectares of land from two villages to the Yamuna Expressway Industrial Development Authority for the development of the upcoming Jewar international airport. As much as […]

The Airports Economic Regulatory Authority (AERA) will continue to regulate airports being managed by private players or on a public-private partnership (PPP) model even if they are not major airports. The clarification was given to […]

The Uttar Pradesh government has approved the proposal for the transfer of gram sabha (59.79 hectares) and state-owned land (21.36 hectares) to the state civil aviation department for Phase I of the Jewar (Greater Noida) […]

Volcan Investments, one of the three players who had shown interest in the grounded Jet Airways, has withdrawn its expression of interest (EoI) a day after submission. With this, the chances of reviving the airline […]

Vistara has announced signing of a code-share agreement with Singapore Airlines (SIA) and its regional arm Silk Air for operating international flights under the latter’s designated codes. The domestic carrier had launched international operations with […]

The Kempegowda international airport at Bengaluru has successfully launched the ambitious Digi Yatra programme – a fully biometric-based self-boarding solution for passengers. The airport has partnered with Vistara to launch One-ID, a biometric platform technology […]

Adani Enterprises Limited (AEL) has committed capital expenditure worth about Rs 100 billion over the next seven years for its airport business. In February 2019, the company had won bids for leasing out six airports […]

The Maharashtra government laid the foundation stone for the Belora airport modernisation project near Amaravati on July 13, 2019. Work under the project involves extension of the runway from the existing length of 1,372 metres […]

The Airports Economic Regulatory Authority of India [AERA] Amendment Bill, 2019, was passed by Parliament on August 2, 2019, allowing AERA to bid out new airports at a predetermined tariff structure. With this, the threshold […]

The Punjab government signed an agreement with the Airports Authority of India (AAI) for setting up a joint venture (JV) for the development of the Halwara Civil Terminal Building Project on June 12, 2019. As […]