NEW DELHI: Indian aviation authorities are preparing the groundwork for the planned launch of air taxis in the country by 2026. In a major milestone, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) on Friday issued the rules for establishing vertiports – from where these vertical take-off & landing (VTOL) capable aircraft – will operate, paving…
India’s veteran spinner Ravichandran Ashwin has voiced his frustration against the Indigo airline. Ashwin shared his own negative experience with IndiGo, accusing the airline of frequently disregarding seat reservations made by passengers, even when those seats have been paid for in advance.Ashwin took to social media to express his displeasure, stating, “This is becoming a…
NEW DELHI: A special Air India flight successfully evacuated 205 individuals, including six infants, from Dhaka to New Delhi on Wednesday amid ongoing political unrest in Bangladesh.According to the officials, the chartered flight departed New Delhi for Dhaka on Tuesday on short notice despite infrastructure challenges.Meanwhile Air India, Vistara, and IndiGo resume their scheduled flights…
NEW DELHI: After heavy rains lashed out the streets of Delhi causing waterlogging in several areas on Wednesday, an announcement by IndiGo left the airline customers on X irritated further.The announcement was about a possible delay in flights but what annoyed the customers was the apparent cheerful tone of it. “We have a special announcement…
NEW DELHI: Airport systems across India were restored at 3am Saturday after a 17-hour global outage caused by a software fault in computers running MS Windows. However, a large backlog of cancelled and delayed flights, along with undelivered baggage, means full normalisation may take a couple of days.“Flight operations are going smoothly now. There is…
NEW DELHI: The global Microsoft cloud services outage on Friday caused significant inconvenience for passengers at Bengaluru airport, leading to long lines at the check-in counters of all major airlines as their systems were unable to process check-ins. Indigo, Air India Express, SpiceJet, and Akasa at Bengaluru airport started checking in passengers manually on after…
NEW DELHI: Domestic air travel has again touched all time highs this summer but growth has been capped by high fares caused by a serious capacity crunch. DGCA data shows about 1.4 crore people flew within the country this May, almost the same as the peak seen last December. However, growth is capped at about…
The incident occurred at Mumbai airport on Saturday morning when an Air India aircraft was speeding for take off when an IndiGo aircraft came in and landed behind it on the same runway. MUMBAI: The Aviation regulatory body, DGCA, has taken action by de-rostering an Air Traffic Control officer (ATCO) from Mumbai following a potentially…
MUMBAI: An IndiGo flight from Chennai with 172 passengers and crew on board carried out an emergency landing in Mumbai on Saturday following a bomb threat to the aircraft.This is the second instance of a bomb threat to an IndiGo flight within a span of a week. The earlier incident occurred on May 28 on…
NEW DELHI: In a first for Indian carriers, IndiGo has clocked nearly $ 1 billion annual profit. The profitable airline is also planning to get comfortable for passengers in the front end of aircraft by having a business class on some routes by the year-end.The airline reported a profit of Rs 1,895 crore this January-March,…
