Even with his eternal bow the Maharaja is standing firm on certain issues. However, some do not like and others accept grudgingly. Air India staff; under pressure from the management
National carrier Air India is back in bad weather condition and I know why. In October last year I was looking for cheapest air tickets to Kochi for my parents’ trip. I have tr
The future of airport baggage management will dawn in India soon. The trigger could be Renuka Chowdary incident last week at Delhi airport. The civil aviation ministry is contemplati
Once they were jewels in the crown of the government. But they are now sick and beyond revival. The government has decided to close down its best known enterprises like Air India, MTNL and Hindusta
The civil aviation ministry has that there was no question of closing Air India. Minister of Heavy Industries Anant Geete had said in a written reply to the Lok Sabha that Air India and MTNL were a
Air India, the national carrier which was declared sick by heavy industry minister Anant Geete, received another jolt recently when no candidate turned up for the walk-in interview to recruit new p
Taking a lesson from the Germanwings plane crash--reportedly caused by its co-pilot-- the directorate general of civil aviation (DGCA) is planning to upgrade the mental health assessment of aspirin
The cash-strapped Maharaja has been wobbling for sometimes one of the reasons is government itself. The cash-crunched Air India is craving for funds with a debt burden of Rs 40,000 crore, the gover
The beleaguered national carrier is aiming to rebuild and restructure its tattered image by raising $300 million from overseas market via External Commercial Borrowing (ECB). The Air India is belie
With few players in the aviation sector there are bound to be charges of cartelization, especially in terms of fares. The Competition Commission of India (CCI) has again taken up the issue of carte
Air India has adopted a new way to deal with the stressed minds of its new lot of pilots and cabin crew. In order to build and inculcate a positive and healthy atmosphere the national carrier has i
The national carrier has further lost its credibility after a passenger found a baby lizard in the food he was served. The incident took place on Thursday on Air India flight (AI 111) on Delhi-Lond
Cancellations dropped below 1% and the number of passengers travelling by domestic carriers rose by 29 per cent in July. While SpiceJet managed to hold its top position in terms of passenger
Finance minister Arun Jaitley will meet heads of PSU banks today (Monday) to discuss loans, interest rate reduction and jan dhan yojana. The performance review meeting of public sector banks (PSBs)
Union parliamentary affairs minister M Venkaiah Naidu on Friday said political parties must reach a conclusion on the long-pending women`s reservation bill and attacked the Congress over the allege
Air India will hire over 500 type-rated pilots on contract basis for the carrier’s narrow-body fleet, which is expected to grow to about 80 aircraft by March 2018. This will be one of the lar
The government will on Thursday announce the names of the first 20 urban areas that will be developed as smart cities. In subsequent years, the government will announce 40 cities each to be develop
NITI Aayog has recommended disinvestment of central public sector enterprises (CPSEs) such as Air India after they are revived. It has also recommended immediate winding up 26 state-run companies
Air India chairman and managing director Ashwani Lohani has been empanelled to hold secretary-level posts in the central government. According to an order issued
The state-owned ailing flag carrier is in news again. Air India, which has been under losses for over a decade now, has made operating profit estimated at a little over Rs 100 crore in the financia
Ashwani Lohani, chairman and managing director of Air India Ltd, believes in a hands-on approach at work as he tries to turn around the money-losing national carrier. In an intervie
The government is seeking to hire a new joint managing director to steer Air India Ltd’s turnaround and debt restructuring plan. According to a news report
National carrier Air India, which is making operational profit now, is looking to rejig debt worth Rs 10,000 crore under the scheme for sustainable restructuring of bad assets floated by the
There are early signs of a turnaround at Air India. It has increased its revenue per regular employee by over 12% to Rs 1.09 crore in the year. This was achieved by reducing the number of regular e
State run carrier Air India will receive less than half of the equity support it sought from the government this fiscal. The national carrier had sought Rs 3,900 crore from the government, wh
“There is an idea circulating that Air India will do better if its debt is restructured,” union civil aviation minister Ashok Gajapathi Raju told Hindu BusinessLine. The
National carrier Air India will get only Rs 80 crore as additional budget support in the current financial year from the government – much below its demand of Rs 2,200 c
BSNL was incurring `8,000 crore loss in 2014. But today it has earned an operating profit of `672 crore in just one and half years’ time,” proudly claimed IT minister Ravi Shankar Prasa
The civil aviation ministry is contemplating to begin the performance of public sector undertakings (PSUs) under its aegis on a balance scorecard methodology to put an end to the conventional ways
Come January 2017, and you will be able to fly from Jamnagar to Ahmedabad or Allahabad to Gorakhpur… or so claims the government. The Modi government’s ambitious regional connectivity
In its bid to boost passenger traffic, national carrier Air India has slashed economy class fares to match those offered by Indian Railways premium train—Rajdhani Express on select rout
As many as 22 operational airports owned and managed by Airports Authority of India in the country do not have scheduled flight operations. However, most of these airports are used for general avia
Shiv Sena MP Ravindra Gaikwad, who is no longer allowed to fly, will be reaching Delhi by train on Wednesday to attend the ongoing parliament session and also to attend a meeting at the civil avi
By all accounts Mumbai is a high-flying city. Except on one. It just doesn’t have enough land to, well, safely land the ever-growing tribe of globetrotters. The city is adding close t
PM Narendra Modi’s yet another niftily acronymed scheme, UDAN – short for Ude ‘Desh Ka Aam Naagrik’ and otherwise called ‘Regional Connectivity Scheme’ in offici
Air India is gasping for breath and we need to stop pumping in taxpayers’ money to keep the national carrier afloat. Turnaround efforts have come a cropper and each time an Air India flight t
The imminent sell-off of Air India (AI) has evoked a wave of nostalgia, particularly in people of the older generation. There was a time in the 1950s and 1960s when Air India and its country cousin
Everyone in Yogi Adityanath`s office declares that Yogi’s political career is founded on the work carried out from there, first when he was mahant of the influential temple, and then as an
Minister of state for civil aviation Jayant Sinha in a reply to a question in the Lok Sabha said that air freight handled at Indian airports has grown by over 20 times from 0.08 million metric tonn
Niti Aayog has suggested that the government should avoid activities that don’t serve any public purpose. “India’s choice to build a socialist pat
Air India’s keenness to provide Khadi products to its flyers has helped the Khadi and Village Industries Commission (KVIC) bag an order of Rs 8 crore from the national carrier to supply Khadi
Easing the financial burden of the Air India, the government has decided to enhance the expenditure for special extra section flights (SESF) operations from Rs 336.24 crore to Rs 534.38 crore for 2
The centre’s ambitious Digi Yatra initiative, which aims to enable flyers to get into airports by using facial recognition technology, started taking shape after minister of commerce and indu
