A bench headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi took note of the submissions of senior advocate Mukul Rohatgi, representing Indigo airlines that there were no fire fighting and other facilities available at Umroi airport and flight operations cannot be... read more

Over the past four years, passenger growth in India has been rapid. Yet the industry itself hasn’t benefited. Almost every Indian airline is struggling. read more

Once the debt is transferred to the SPV, Air India’s annual interest liability will be around Rs 1,700 crore per year, down from Rs 4,400 crore currently. read more

As per the AAI norms, all the carriers are supposed to keep their dues within 80 per cent of their security deposit with the state-run aerodrome operator. read more

The reason for the decline in number according to officials is that Lufthansa airlines had stopped its operations due to some technical reasons for three months read more

IndiGo was responding to passengers who had questioned the low-cost airline’s move to levy a fee on web check-ins. In a series of responses to several tweets, IndiGo said that the seat fee policy had been revised effective November 14. read more

Custom officials said the passenger had concealed the metal in paste form in polythene bags around her waist by means of a support belt read more

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Jet Airways and SpiceJet are the only two Indian carriers which operate the Boeing 737 Max aircraft. read more

Mumbai resident Shradha Tripathi said that the SpiceJet flight was taken back to the bay only after she objected to the take off. But the airline has refuted her charges, saying that Tripathi refused to take help offered. read more

The parliamentary panel called the top managements of all major private airlines – Indigo, Jet Airways, SpiceJet, Air Asia and Vistara. read more

A spokesperson for SpiceJet said flight SG 88 operating from Bangkok to Delhi was diverted to Varanasi owing to a medical emergency onboard. read more

In a bid to boost air connectivity in regional routes, SpiceJet will start three new direct flights from Guwahati connecting to Patna, Hyderabad and Gangtok. The daily flights on the Guwahati-Patna and Guwahati-Hyderabad route would commence from October 10. While services on Guwahati-Pakyong route would be effective from October 16. Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal announced the new flights at his office conference room at Janata Bhawan. Debojo Maharshi, Chief Marketing Officer, SpiceJet, said, “We would commence the flight’s two services that is Guwahati to patna, Guwahati to Hyderabad from October 10. Its announcement was done by Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal. We presented the first boarding pass to him. We are starting Guwahati-Pakyong from October 10.” (HT Correspondent)read more

SpiceJet would be the first schedule domestic airline to start dedicated air cargo services in India. read more

A woman, angry at being asked by security personnel to remove a power bank from her check-in baggage, smashed the device on a wall, causing it to emit sparks and smoke. read more