Civil Aviation

New Delhi: IndiGo, India’s largest airline, has secured approval from the Centre to extend the wet lease of 11 Airbus A320 aircraft, according to sources. This approval, granted by the Directorate General of Civil Aviation...

New Delhi: The central government is set to initiate the next phase of airport privatisation under the public-private partnership (PPP) model, anticipated to kick off following the 2025 Budget, according to government sources. The...

New Delhi: The Indian government is set to revolutionise emergency healthcare with plans to launch over 50 Helicopter Emergency Medical Services (HEMS) units along key national highways. The services were announced by Union Civil Aviation...

New Delhi: The Noida International Airport is set to begin operations any time after March 20 next year, moving up from the initially scheduled date of April 17, according to Arun Vir Singh, CEO...

New Delhi: SpiceJet has announced that the airline will expand its network by initiating eight new flights. The budget carrier will be starting new routes from November 15, connecting Jaipur with Varanasi, Amritsar, and...

New Delhi. Lt Col V S Velan, Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Elena Geo Systems, was honoured with the prestigious ‘Igor I Sikorsky’ Award for technical excellence November 5. The award was presented by...

Toulouse. Ethiopia’s national flag carrier and largest Airbus operator in Africa, Ethiopian Airlines, has taken delivery of its first of four A350-1000 from Airbus in Toulouse, France. The first of its kind to be...

New Delhi: Air India  announced that it has received the Design Organisation Approval (DOA) from the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA), designated as CAR 21 approval. This approval enables Air India to independently...

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Riyadh Air, the new premium international airline based in Saudi Arabia, has placed a firm order for 60 A321neo Family aircraft. The agreement was signed at the Future Investment Initiative (FII)...

New Delhi: Qatar Airways, voted the World’s Best Airline by Skytrax in 2024, and Thales have signed an agreement to equip Qatar Airways’ new A321 NX fleet with FlytEDGE, Thales’ Crystal Cabin® award-winning Inflight...

New Delhi: With a fast growing civil aviation market, to meet the requirements, Civil Aviation Minister K Rammohan Naidu said that the country will have 8,000 aircraft in the next 20 years. Highlighting the growth potential of India’s...

New Delhi: Civil Aviation Minister K Rammohan Naidu October 21 announced that the government will extend the regional air connectivity scheme UDAN for 10 more years, which means until 2036. The Centre’s UDAN (Ude Desh...

New Delhi: Airbus has inaugurated its new India and South Asia Headquarters located at Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport. The state-of-art facility was inaugurated by Kinjarapu Rammohan Naidu, Minister of Civil Aviation, Government of India, in the presence of Michael Schoellhorn, CEO of Airbus Defence and Space, and Rémi Maillard, President and Managing Director of Airbus in India and South Asia. The new headquarters symbolise the ambition of Airbus in India...