Aviation News

» Eaton starts ops as India's first hotel inside an airport at New Delhi T3

The 93-room property, is being managed by the Langham Hospitality group and has been developed by Wadhwa Developers ... Read more

» Qantas launches first commercial biofuel flight

The biofuel component of the fuel used for the flight was from refined cooking oil ... Read more

» Govt approves the proposal to hive off MRO business of Air India Engineering Services Limited

Also to operationalise Air India Transport Services Limited as a new subsidiary of Air India to hive off Ground Handling (GH) business of Air India in order to develop it as a separate profit centre ... Read more

» Garuda plans direct flight from Jakarta to Mumbai, Chennai by mid 2012

The national carrier of Indonesia will also start direct flights from Delhi and Kolkata later on ... Read more

» Cabinet Committee approves restructuring plan, Dreamliners for Air India

The CCEA approved the turnaround plan (TAP) and the airline's financial restructuring plan (FRP), which includes additional equity infusion by the government ... Read more

» Travel agents start getting refund for unflown tickets of Kingfisher

IATA has asked the member agents to put in all refund claims by May 3 ... Read more

» Govt may allow 49 percent FDI by foreign airlines this week

Move could pave the way for joint ventures - like Tata-Singapore Airlines that was ironically nixed years ago by disallowing FDI by foreign airlines ... Read more

» Kingfisher shares jump over buzz of sell out to Reliance, other entities

However RIL, Tatas and Singapore Airlines have denied any such possibility ... Read more

» Airlines risk losing peak slots at busiest airports

For the domestic sector, the peak slots span from 4 am to 8 am and 4 pm to 8 pm and for international, it is 8 pm to 2 am and 5 am to 1.30 pm ... Read more

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