Aviation

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) […]

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) […]