The airline’s spokesperson, in a brief statement, said the aircraft returned after an indication of a “minor technical” issue, without giving details such as the number of passengers on board or even the flight number. read more

The bomb threat evacuation drill is an annual exercise carried out by the airport’s security, during which the domestic terminal is evacuated. read more

According to Flightradar24, a Swedish web service that shows real-time commercial flight information, 431 (291 departures and 140 arrivals) flights were delayed on Thursday. read more

As per a live flight-tracking website, 14 incoming and 16 outbound flights were cancelled on Thursday. In addition, 118 flights were delayed, including 86 departure. read more

Flight 6E-6097 was scheduled to leave Mumbai at 3:15 pm and reach Delhi at 5.30 pm. The plane finally departed at 9:55 pm. read more

Venezuelan national Demnys Sales was arrested while smuggling cocaine worth \u20B92.2 crore concealed in 60 capsules. read more

Venezuelan Hadry Vanessa Vines Costa, 31, and Brazilian Mereles Garcia Yurinka Elimar, 21 were arrested by the NCB at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport on Friday read more

The SpiceJet aircraft SG 6237 from Jaipur to Mumbai with 160 passengers on board overshot the runway while landing at the main runway 27 at around 11.15pm on Monday. read more

A total of 153 arrival flights and 353 departure flights were delayed, while two arrival flights and one departure flight had to be cancelled. read more

The number of daily flights operating from the city’s airport had dropped to 650 from 950 after Jet Airways stopped operations on April 17. In order to meet rising demand and to lower rising ticket fares, the civil aviation ministry allowed IndiGo, SpiceJet... read more

The rains also threw public transport out of gear, with a total of 44 trains cancelled and 155 delayed on the Central Railway (CR) and Western Railway (WR). read more

Under a new centralised air traffic flow management system, pilots flying to Mumbai airport will be informed about ground traffic, weather conditions and delays in advance. read more

The international passenger traffic in Mumbai went up to 13.4 million in 2018-19, from 12.2 million in 2017-18. Pune recorded a 5.4% rise in international passengers – 2.71 lakh in 2018-19 from 2.57 lakh in 2017-18. read more

Pune’s Lohegaon airport reported an increase in domestic passengers to 7.8 million in 2018-19 from 6.5 million in 2017-18. Nagpur saw 2.08 million passengers in 2018-19, compared to 1.7 million in 2017. read more

More than 500 flight operations were affected and the airport had to shift operations to the shorter and less efficient secondary runway. read more