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An Air India jumbo, touching down amidst heavy rain early this morning, overshot the runway, landing its nosewheels in grass some 10 metres away. It shut down the operational secondary runway for five hours.

The official explanation was that the ‘‘braking action’’ by the pilot of flight AI 127 was ...

Fresh torrential rains in western India stopped flight operations and disrupted train services in Mumbai on Sunday.

Flights at Bombay airport, India's busiest, were disrupted for a second day on Sunday, leaving thousands of passengers stranded.

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A London bound Air-India flight Sunday made an emergency landing at the airport here after it developed a technical snag in its wing-flap.

Air-India flight AI 111 made the emergency landing here at around 10.55 p.m. after the pilot discovered a snag on one of the wing flaps when the flight was ...

THE international airport in Mumbai, which was closed for two hours on Saturday morning after an Air India aircraft overshot the runway while landing, resumed normal flight operations, a senior airport official said.

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Jet Airways, India's first private airline that was scheduled to commence its inaugural flights to the United States from Thursday, has deferred the launch date. The first Jet flight to the American skies will now take off in the second week of August.

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Amidst considerable media speculation in recent weeks, Kingfisher Airlines Limited today announced that Mr. Alex Wilcox will continue as President and a member of the Board of Directors and Executive Committee of Kingfisher Airlines Limited.

However, Mr. Wilcox will be based in the USA due to ...

MUMBAI: In an unprecedented move to checkmate poaching, Air-India has written to the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) asking it to cancel the Commercial Pilot's Licence (CPL) of each of the 12 pilots who have left Air-India Express to join other airlines.

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Jet Airways India Ltd said on Monday that, that the 50th aircraft of the Company, a next-generation Boeing 737-800 flew into Delhi on Monday and joined the Company's fleet
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Although SpiceJet only has a small fleet of 3 aircrafts, it has proved to be the highest load factor among various low-cost airlines presently operating in India.
Statistics filed with The Directorate-General of Civil Aviation exhibited that Spice Jet had a load factor of almost 93% followed by Air ...

Air India Ltd. and Jet Airways (India) Ltd. have reached a short-term agreement for the Wet Lease by Air India of Jet Airways’ A340-300E aircraft for operating a daily flight between Mumbai and London.

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It took Alex Wilcox just a few months to figure out that his assignment as COO of Kingfisher Airlines wasn’t about to take-off. UB group chairman Vijay Mallya preferred to take all the major decisions, Wilcox is reported to have said.

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PMO blows a fuse over Aviation short-circuit

Being the seniormost officer in the Civil Aviation Ministry, Sushma Chawla was appointed as interim CMD of Indian Airlines after Sunil Arora relinquished charge last month. And the Ministry wrote to Cabinet Secretary B K Chaturvedi to set up a search ...

Boeing company will carry out a demonstration flight of a Boeing 777-200 LR (long range) aircraft in August as part of its test flight even as the US Jet maker is in discussions with Delhi-based Spice Jet for induction of its newest Boeing 737-900 X, due for commercial launch in 2007.

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Jet Aviation Dubai is the first global executive aviation maintenance facility at Dubai International Airport, and has a total of 4,200 square meters (45,192 square feet) of hangar space, a workshop area of 1,000 square meters (10,760 square feet), and a two storey FBO building with an area of 1000 ...

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Air Deccan, the low-cost-no-frills airline, is all set to increase services from Chennai by starting Chennai-Tuticorin service and hourly service in Chennai-Bangalore-Hyderabad sector shortly.
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Open up the skies and pave the way for more tourism and investments. This was Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong's plea to India on Thursday. He said a liberal aviation regime would increase the flow of tourists and create jobs in the sector.

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Sources say the recently launched Spice Jet has written a letter to Indian airlines to negotiate a deal for ground handling, engineering facilities, terminal space. Spice Jet also wants to buy surplus flight kilometers that Indian Airlines operates on non-profitable routes.
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UAE's premier carrier, Emirates, on Friday said it was interested in expanding its operations from India depending on the air traffic rights granted to it and was planning to build a training centre for aviation-related activities in the country

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Airbus India sales chief Nigel Harwood, who stunned the aviation industry in India and abroad by questioning Air-India's decision to buy Boeing planes, is close to joining Vijay Mallya-promoted Kingfisher Airlines as chief operating officer. The UK-born Harwood will take over from Kingfisher's ...