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Despite the cumulative 75-basis-point cut by the United States Federal Reserve since September and the 125-basis-point cut by the Bank of Canada since June, the most recent loan officer surveys for both countries showed lending standards actually tightening.

Air India Express will start flights to Bangkok from Surat and Pune from December 20, making Thailand's capital its 15th international destination. Besides, the Tata Group carrier will commence services to Dimapur (Nagaland) and Patna (Bihar). With these new cities, the airline will be connecting a total of 51 cities across India, the Middle East and Southeast Asia. «Operations to Bangkok will commence on 20th December 2024, with direct flights connecting Surat and Pune to the vibrant capital of Thailand. Additionally, the airline strengthens its domestic network with the launch of services to Dimapur and Patna, offering daily direct connectivity between Dimapur and Guwahati, and Patna and Bengaluru and Hyderabad,» the airline said in a release on Wednesday.

Airlines received 994 hoax bomb threats this year till November 13 and robust protocols are in place to handle such threats, the government has said. To deal with the menace of hoax calls in a comprehensive manner, the civil aviation ministry plans to amend the Suppression of Unlawful Acts against Safety of Civil Aviation Act, 1982, and Aircraft (Security) Rules, 2023. A total of 1,143 hoax bomb threat messages/calls were received from August 2022 till November 13, 2024, Minister of State for Civil Aviation Muralidhar Mohol informed Rajya Sabha on November 25.

Get all the Cyclone Fengal LIVE Updates here on LiveMint!Rains lashed several parts of Tamil Nadu on Tuesday, and the India Meteorological Department said the depression over Bay of Bengal has formed into a deep depression and it is likely to intensify into a cyclonic storm on November 27. Seven teams from the 4th Battalion of the NDRF, including two canine units (30 rescuers per team), have been mobilised in anticipation of heavy to very heavy rainfall predicted by the Regional Meteorological Centre (RMC) in parts of Tamil Nadu and Puducherry from 26 to 28 November.According to the NDRF, the teams will be deployed in Karaikal, Thanjavur, Tiruvarur, Cuddalore, Nagapattinam, and Mayiladuthurai districts.The Regional Meteorological Centre (RMC), Chennai, on Tuesday said that the depression over the southwest Bay of Bengal has now intensified into a deep depression and that it is likely to intensify further into a cyclonic storm on Wednesday.Chennai city and suburbs have been experiencing widespread rains since Tuesday morning.

The Thanksgiving travel rush is expected to be bigger than ever this year

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Airports and highways are expected to be jam-packed during Thanksgiving week, a holiday period likely to end with another record day for air travel in the United States

domestic air passenger traffic grew 5.3 per cent to 1.36 crore in October from 1.26 crore in the same month last year, aviation regulator DGCA's monthly data showed on Tuesday. During the reporting month, budget carrier IndiGo carried 86.40 lakh passengers, clocking a market share of 63.3 per cent, followed by Tata Group-run Air India and Vistara, which flew 26.48- lakh and 12.43-lakh travellers, respectively. Air India numbers include the number of passengers flown by its low-cost arm Air India Express, as per data. Air India merged its subsidiary AIX Connect with its low-cost international budget arm Air India Express on October 1 this year. The merged entity named as Air India Express now operates as the low-cost arm of Air India.

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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. NEW DELHI : NTPC Green Energy Ltd (NGEL) is in talks with global airlines including British Airways, Lufthansa, Singapore Airlines, and Virgin Atlantic, among others, to secure deals for supplying sustainable aviation fuel (SAF). The cleaner aviation fuel will be supplied from NGEL's green hydrogen hub in Andhra Pradesh, which is yet to begin production, said a person familiar with the developments.

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Air India is setting up an aircraft maintenance training institute in Bengaluru that will offer an integrated 2+2 years aircraft maintenance engineering (AME) programme certified by aviation regulator Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA). The purpose-built basic maintenance training organisation (BMTO), spread over 86,000 square feet at Bengaluru Airport City, is expected to be operational by mid-2026, Air India said in a release. The country’s leading global airline group has signed an agreement with Bengaluru Airport City Ltd (BACL), a subsidiary of Bangalore International Airport Ltd (BIAL), to develop a build-to-suit facility for the AME programme that will feature modern classrooms, well-equipped laboratories for practical training and a team of qualified trainers.

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hoax bomb calls to airlines and such calls have reduced, a senior government official said on Thursday. Civil Aviation Secretary Vumlunmang Vualnam also said that procedures being adopted to deal with fog-related disruptions have been streamlined. To a query about hoax bomb calls, he said that authorities have tackled them successfully. A few weeks back, hundreds of flights had received bomb threat calls that later turned out to be hoaxes. These threats had significantly impacted flight operations of various domestic carriers.