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Karnataka's capital city, Bengaluru, on Friday, 19 January. The new state-of-the-art Boeing India Engineering and Technology Centre (BIETC) campus has been built at the Aerospace Park in Devanahalli, near the Bengaluru Airport. Built with an investment of ₹1,600 crore, the 43-acre campus is Boeing’s largest such investment outside the US.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — Alaska Airlines said on Thursday it will extend the cancellation of its Boeing (NYSE:BA) 737 MAX 9 flights through Sunday as the Federal Aviation Administration continues to review inspection data from an initial group of 40 planes.

Federal officials have briefed a congressional committee on their investigations into a jetliner that lost a panel of its fuselage in midflight this month and revealed that airlines have inspected 40 identical Boeing planes

Civil aviation minister Jytoriaditya Scindia on Thursday warned that airlines should improve their efficiency or risk losing customers. He also said that the government will take strict action against airlines who don’t follow the regulations regarding passenger rights. “I would urge the airlines to not only focus on passenger volume but also improve their efficiency.

IndiGo Airlines' Chief Executive Officer Pieter Elbers on Thursday said the airline's operations will be completely back to normal by the weekend and in due course of next week as flight cancellations over fog-related disruptions in northern India in recent days have come down. Speaking to the media on the sidelines of ‘Wings India 2024’, an aviation conclave and exhibition, at Begumpet Airport in Hyderabad, Elbers said the airline industry witnessed probably the worst fog in many years, impacting flight operations, which has become a challenge. "...If you see, I am sure all of you have seen that...we had probably the worst fog in many years...Many of our stations in northern India were severely impacted by the fog situation...If northern India is under a blanket of deep fog, we are having a challenge," the Indigo CEO said.

IndiGo and 250 from Air India, adding that the aircraft manufacturing giant has delivered 75 units to Indian carriers — 41 to Indigo, 19 to Air India, 14 to Vistara and one to Go First. “India is a force that will power global aviation over the next decades...the forecast is that India will require 2,840 new aircraft over the next 20 years to serve the needs of its growing aviation market," PTI quoted Maillard as saying.

In adherence to its ‘Skill India’ commitment, Airbus has formed a 50:50 joint venture with Tata-owned Air India, marking a significant stride in launching a world-class pilot training center in Gurugram, Haryana.

NEW DELHI : The National Company Law Tribunal deferred hearing a case involving low-cost carrier SpiceJet and aircraft lessor Celestial Aviation Services Ltd on Thursday after the two sides informed the court that they were in advanced stages of reaching a settlement. In the previous hearing, SpiceJet had informed the tribunal about making initial payments to the lessor. NCLT is now likely to hear the case in the last week of February.

IndiGo's Patna to Pune flight (6E-126) faced a substantial delay on Wednesday, leaving 162 passengers grounded for over three hours. The catalyst behind this delay unfolded as the first officer, steering the aircraft through foggy conditions at Jay Prakash Narayan International Airport in Patna, received distressing news of his grandmother's sudden demise. Amid preparations for takeoff, the first officer, grappling with the emotional upheaval, made the poignant decision to abort the flight.

India is expected to surge to 300 million annually by 2030 from 153 million in 2023, Union Civil Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia said on Thursday. Speaking at the inaugural session of Wings India 2024, a civil aviation conclave and exhibition, Scindia also said the number of airports, and waterports will increase to over 200 from the existing 149 in the country.

Shashi Tharoor has continued his ongoing fight with the Civil Aviation Minister by demanding Jyotiraditya M. Scindia to drop his ego and seek an apology from the public concerning the flight crisis at the Delhi airport. Quoting Minister's post on social media platform 'X,' Tharoor said «It would be prudent for the Honourable Minister to apologise to them for the agony and distress that his Government has caused, enabled, and overseen rather than engage in .. Scindia had switched parties when he left the grand old party to join BJP in 2020.

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₹272 crore for provident fund and gratuity to the workers. Mehta said not paying these dues puts the resolution plan in breach of the provisions of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC). As the NCLT order has reached its finality, the resolution plan is deemed to be in violation of the IBC and is liable to be set aside.

₹2.7 crore on IndiGo, Air India, SpiceJet and the Mumbai airport following passenger inconvenience and violation of security norms amid fog-related disruption in air travel over the past few weeks. The regulators have imposed a cumulative penalty of ₹1.2 crore on India's largest airline IndiGo, ₹90 lakh on Mumbai airport and ₹30 lakh each on Air India and SpiceJet.

PTC Industries Share Price: Shares of PTC Industries were locked at over 11 per cent upper circuit to hit its fresh 52-week high mark of ₹7,663.25 apiece on the BSE after its subsidiary signed a new supply deal with France-based Dassault Aviation on Wednesday, January 17. The company's wholly-owned subsidiary Aerolloy Technologies signed a long term purchase agreement with Dassault Aviation for supply of full range of titanium cast parts made in India for the Rafale multirole fighter aircraft.

₹1.2 crore on IndiGo over the incident wherein passengers were spotted having food on tarmac at Mumbai airport, according to PTI on Wednesday. A penalty of ₹60 lakh was also imposed on Mumbai airport operator MIAL, as per the orders issued by the BCAS.

Tokyo on Wednesday after an intoxicated passenger bit a cabin attendant mid-flight, reported news agency AFP. The man, reportedly a 55-year-old American, was "heavily drunk" when he bit the crew member's arm, leaving her injured, a spokesperson from the airline told the news agency. The ANA spokesperson further said following the incident, the pilots of the plane with 159 passengers on board, returned the flight to Haneda airport.

Shashi Tharoor questioned the India government's preparedness to ensure that airlines have sufficiently trained pilots to land planes on CAT III-B compliant runways at Delhi airport that enable continuance of flight operations even during visibility as low as 50 metres due to fog conditions. This comes as several flights were delayed or cancelled in Delhi Airport, making passengers wait for long hours amid the severe cold wave conditions that gripped north India.

co-passenger has shared his first-hand account on the incident in a tweet on X. He wrote, “A series of news articles have covered the recent assault on an Indigo Flight 6E2175 pilot on Jan 14. As a co-passenger, I feel compelled to share my first-hand account of the incident." He further clarified that its he does not support violence, however, he added that he intend to share my experience and shed light on the events not support violence.

First Air India Express flight connecting Ayodhya to Bengaluru, Kolkata Union Civil Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia inaugurated the first Air India Express flight between Ayodhya to Bengaluru and between Ayodhya to Kolkata on Wednesday. Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath who was at Lucknow received the boarding pass for the first flight between Kolkata and Ayodhya.

Air India Express flight between Bengaluru, Kolkata, and Ayodhya. They both received the boarding pass for the first flight between Kolkata and Ayodhya. “In the last nine years, not only new airports have come up in Uttar Pradesh but with four international airports, Uttar Pradesh has become an important state in the field of air connectivity.