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New Delhi: Air India may ground a quarter of its weekly flights, bring all its services to West Asian labour hubs under its no-frills subsidiary and scrap a celebrated non-stop Mumbai-New York flight, as the cash-starved national carrier looks to tidy up its hangar ahead of an expected bailout package.The steps could be part of a civil aviation ministry restructuring plan that will be taken up by

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New Delhi: National carrier Air India shifting most of its Gulf-bound services to low-cost Air India Express has seen the airline saving an estimated Rs 113 crore per annum. The national carrier has been operating flights by the erstwhile Indian Airlines and Air India with twin- configuration of Business Class and Economy, while the low- cost subsidiary was operating only economy flights.

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Mumbai: Beginning midnight Friday, at least three private carriers revised the aviation turbine fuel surcharge on domestic travel by Rs100 for routes of less than 1000 kilometres and by Rs200 for routes of at least 1000 km, beginning midnight.Jet Airways (India) Ltd, Kingfisher Airlines Ltd, and GoAirlines India Pvt. Ltd announced the new charges on Friday, apparently in a bid to make the most of

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New Delhi: Private carriers Kingfisher and Jet Airways today raised fuel surcharge by up to Rs 200 following a 9 per cent spike in jet fuel prices.Both the airlines have hiked the fuel surcharge by Rs 100 for distances less than 1,000 km and by Rs 200 for distances beyond that.At present, domestic carriers levy a fuel surcharge of Rs 1,950 up to 1,000 km and Rs 2,700 for longer flights.Air India

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Bangalore/Mumbai: India’s largest engineering firm Larsen and Toubro Ltd (L&T) has offered to sell part of its 17% stake in Bangalore International Airport Ltd, or Bial, to its partners at Rs108 a share, giving it a return of more than 10 times, two people familiar with the development said.Mumbai-based GVK Power and Infrastructure Ltd, which acquired a 12% stake in the project from Zurich

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New Delhi: The government plans to invite bids for city-side development, which includes building hotels and convention centres, at 10 non-metro airports in the country by the year-end. The government-owned Airports Authority of India is currently in the process of identifying land at various non-metro airports, including Lucknow and Ahmedabad, for the purpose.Interestingly, the initial plan of

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Chennai: A senior Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) official posted at Chennai airport on Friday snatched the entry pass of a duty manager of a private airline and sent him out unceremoniously because he allegedly carried a floral bouquet to receive chief minister M Karunanidhi. The pass was later returned after an explanation was given.A senior AAI official said bouquets should not be

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New Delhi: The government today said there is no proposal as of now to allow foreign airlines to invest in Indian carriers."I have not come across a proposal... As of the moment, I have not seen any paper or proposal...we shall comment when it comes," Commerce and Industry Minister Anand Sharma told reporters here.The government has been of the opinion that allowing foreign carriers to invest in

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New Delhi: Celebrating its 50th year of operations in the country, German carrier Lufthansa has announced special return fares for Indian travellers to Europe and America."The airline is offering return tickets to any destination in Europe for Rs 26,000 and in America for Rs 42,600. The bookings for these special fares are open till Sunday midnight," an airline spokesperson said.The German

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Mumbai: Jet Airways’ Jet Airways Konnect, Jet Airways’ all-economy no frills service, will introduce new services on the Delhi-Chennai/Patna sectors, and on the Delhi-Raipur sector, effective November 7, 2009. Effective November 11th, 2009, there will be a capacity enhancement on the Mumbai – Coimbatore sector.Effective November 7, 2009, flight 9W 2213 will depart Delhi at 0540 hrs, arriving in

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In the movie Total Recall, Arnold Schwarzenegger runs through a security check point corridor operating using X-Ray technology. That film was released in 1990. Today that technology is being installed around the world at airports, border check points, marine ports and high risk security environments such as court buildings. They are currently being assessed or used in Canada, the U.S., U.K.,

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Mumbai One of the most populated cities in the world with increasing traffic as the financial center of India – accommodates millions of travelers every year. The Airports Authority of India recently mandated modernization of the Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport, India’s busiest airport. MIAL directs the expansion and improvement of CSIA infrastructure to accommodate nearly double its

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Chandigarh: Duped by a travel agent of Faridkot, the victims, identified as Lakhvir Singh (27) and Raju Singh (22) belonging to Vidrokey village of Moga and Burj Hari Singh village of Ludhiana, respectively, are stranded at the Kuala Lumpur airport .Travel agent Jagtar Singh from Manuke village in Moga and a partner with Ticket Trawells, allegedly took Rs 1 lakh each from them to send them to

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New Delhi: In what could breathe life into the domestic aviation industry grappling with huge losses, the government will shortly consider a proposal to allow foreign airlines pick up to 49 per cent equity in Indian carriers. This is despite stiff opposition from the country’s largest private airline Jet Airways.A Committee of Secretaries, chaired by Cabinet Secretary K M Chandrasekhar, will take

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New Delhi: A long pending proposal of the civil aviation ministry, seeking 25% equity investment by foreign airlines in Indian carriers, is scheduled to come up before a high-powered committee on November 17.The panel is headed by cabinet secretary, K M Chandrashekhar, and comprises secretaries from the ministries of civil aviation, finance, law, industry and home.While civil aviation minister

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New Delhi: Next week could be a crucial one for airlines in India with government holding two meetings. While the committee of secretaries headed by cabinet secretary K M Chandrasekhar will discuss the long-pending issue of allowing foreign airlines to invest in desi ones, Pranab Mukherjee-headed Group of Ministers will meet to look into aviation ministry's request to infuse funds into AI.Many

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Mumbai: Workers conducting repairs at the intersection of the cross-runway at the city airport on Tuesday afternoon got the shock of their lives. A GoAir flight almost "grazed" them, passing just 50 feet over the ground as it came in for landing.It was a close shave for both the passengers aboard the aircraft and the workers at the site. The directorate general of civil aviation (DGCA) ordered an

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Mumbai: The Board of Directors of GVK Power and Infrastructure Limited (GVKPIL) today approved an acquisition of 12% stake in Bengaluru International Airport Limited (BIAL) from Zurich Airport for a total consideration of Rs 484.6 crore through GVK Airport Developers Pvt. Ltd. (GVKADPL), a wholly owned subsidiary of GVK.GVK is a leading infrastructure developer in India and also lead promoter of

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A GoAir Airbus A320-200, flight G8-105 from New Delhi to Mumbai (India) with 154 passengers, was cleared to land on runway 27A, which has a threshold 1262 meters (4140 feet) displaced from the original threshold runway 27 due to reconstruction work. The crew however approached the original runway 27 prompting around 600 workers, who became aware of the oncoming plane, to run for cover. The crew

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Chennai: Pilots of national carrier Air India on Thursday threatened to go on strike again if their flying allowances and other salary arrears of the past two months are not been paid to them by November 10.The pilots threatened to go on strike from November 24 in that case.The decision was taken at the Indian Commercial Pilots Associations (ICPA) central committee meeting at the Air India house

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Bangalore: Captain GR Gopinath's Deccan Charters has won a two-year contract from global emergency service-provider International SOS, in a deal valued between Rs 1-2 crore, to provide air medical evacuation services across India. This service is focussed on high net worth individuals, executives and business dons. All of Deccan’s fixed wing aircraft and helicopters will be harnessed by

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The cash-strapped Air India, looking for funds from the government to revive itself, is unlikely to get any compensation during the current financial year from US giant Boeing for delay in delivery of B787 Dreamliner aircraft. Air India had ordered 27 B787s and compensation for the delay in delivering the aircraft would have provided some relief of the financial front.Contrary to popular belief

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Mumbai: The molestation-turned-safety lapse incident involving an air-hostess is just the newest case of arbitrary judgment by Air India's inquiry commissions, according to cabin crew veterans, some of whom have been at the receiving end of this high-handedness in the past."The in-house commissions work like kangaroo courts and there are instances of goof-ups galore," said flight purser KVJ Rao,

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In response to popular demand, Jet Airways is relaunching its service out of New York's Newark-Liberty International Airport on the B777-300ER aircrafts. The flights will travel to Mumbai through the Jet Airways hub in Brussels.There will be additional seat capacity in economy, Business and First Class on this new aircraft. Private suites have also been reintroduced.05/11/09 Travel Agent Central

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Mumbai: Flight operations at Mumbai airport here were affected on Thursday for over 20 minutes after the tyre of a private charter aircraft burst leading to closure of the main runway.The main runway was closed for about 24 minutes due to a tyre burst of a non-scheduled operator aircraft, a Mumbai International Airport Limited (MIAL) spokesperson told PTI in Mumbai tonight.Due to the closure of

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