Aviation
AirAsia India offers 20% discount in fares
13 Aug 2014
Tata-SIA joint venture airline named `Vistara’
11 Aug 2014
The new full service carrier is expected to start operations in October
IndiGo gets virtual FIPB nod to go ahead with FDI conversion
02 Aug 2014
IndiGo's holding company InterGlobe Aviation Ltd is currently 48-per cent owned by co-founder Rakesh Gangwal's US-based Caelum Investments and this investment falls under FDI
More new airlines to follow AirAsia, Tata-SIA into Indian skies
23 Jul 2014
Civil aviation minister Ashok Gajapathi Raju says the new licences are aimed at promoting air travel to unconnected destinations
SpiceJet suspends flights to Kabul after second rocket attack on airport
18 Jul 2014
The airline's decision to suspend operations comes a day after militants carried out a pre-dawn attack on Kabul airport
Malaysia Airlines plane crash kills 298
18 Jul 2014
Inflicting a severe blow to the financially struggling Malaysia Airlines, its Boeing 777 passenger jet crashed over eastern Ukraine yesterday, killing 298 people on board
CIT to buy 15 A330-900neo and 5 A321-200ceo Airbus aircraft
16 Jul 2014
The A330-800neo and the A330-900neo are two new members of the Airbus wide-body family launched in July 2014, with first deliveries scheduled to start in the last quarter of 2017
DGCA clears Tata-SIA Airlines ahead of court hearing
10 Jul 2014
With the regulator rejecting all the objections against the proposed airline, the way is clear for granting an airline licence to Tata-SIA Airlines
Boeing in $56-bn deal to sell 150 777X planes to Emirates
09 Jul 2014
Design of the 777X is underway and production is set to begin in 2017, with he first delivery targeted for 2020
Air India calls meet to integrate its two pilots’ unions
07 Jul 2014
The meeting assumes significance as it comes days before the national carrier formally gets inducted as the 27th member of the global Star Alliance
Air India to leaseback five more Dreamliners
05 Jul 2014
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