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Alliance Air pilots on strike over pay, nearly half its flights cancelled

Airline says no notice served, so management has taken a serious view; pilots want salaries pruned during Covid to be restored to pre-pandemic levels

Rush at European embassies: Walk-ins, more staff to cut visa wait time

Embassies 'put in measures' to reduce turnaround time

Delhi breaks into league of top ten busiest airports for the first time

Named ninth busiest for passenger traffic in 2022, is only Indian airport in the list

Star PSU: HAL's productivity gains, overhaul business driving growth

Productivity gains and the overhaul business are driving growth. HAL is also tapping into opportunities in civil aviation

'Inability to build commercial aircraft one of India's biggest failings'

Civil Aviation Secretary Rajiv Bansal called India's inability to manufacture commercial aircraft a "huge pain point"

Credit card payments on foreign travels likely to attract tax at source

According to the LRS, which was introduced in 2004, all resident individuals, including minors, are allowed to freely remit up to $250,000 per financial year

Go First penalised for violation, receives two-hour operation ban

Order will be in effect between 12-2 p.m on April 1

Indian carriers need not shy away from competition: Noida Int'l Airport CEO

"Our business case is based on the premise of growth. It is in our interest and everyone else to see growth in domestic and international traffic," he said

Turkish Airlines wants additional traffic rights to IndiGo: CEO Bilal Eksi

Such a unilateral increase in traffic rights will be unique to Turkiye and may also receive a nod from the Indian government

No plans to give more bilateral rights to W Asian carriers: Rajiv Bansal

All West Asian carriers have been asking for additional seats for several years, but India hasn't acquiesced, Bansal said

Bilateral rights row: Don't club us with GCC nations, says Jazeera Air CEO

India and Kuwait revised the air service agreement in 2007 and carriers of both sides are entitled to deploy 12,000 seats per week each, but that limit has now got exhausted

CAPA summit: Airlines fly into crew, aircraft shortages as demand takes off

Air India cuts flights to US amid non-availability of flight attendants, IndiGo continues to wait for engines

Crew crunch amid network expansion forces Air India to cut six US flights

A few flights to Bangkok and Dubai will be operated by Airbus A320 aircraft instead of the wide-body Boeing 787

Air India makes another voluntary retirement offer for non-flying staff

The plan is aimed at putting Air India on a path of sustained growth, profitability and market leadership

New Jio family plan could delay postpaid tariff hikes: Kotak Inst Equities

Brokerage expects rivals to lower add-on connection fee and/or launch lower data allowance family packs at lower price points to retain their postpaid base; move could dilute ARPU by 1-3%

Three years, 4,700 complaints against domestic airlines: Govt data

The grievances are taken up with the airlines concerned. If the complainant is not satisfied he/she can file an appeal

Reliance Jio eyes postpaid segment with new family plans, free trial

Jio has been slow to grow in the postpaid segment and the move will pit it against Bharti Airtel

Air India ties up with Salesforce to improve customer experience

Airline to use Salesforce's products with AI as it implement five-year transformation plan

Boeing, GMR Aero Technic to set up India's first freighter conversion line

GMR group's facility in Hyderabad will become the fourth Boeing-approved facility globally after China, Costa Rica, and the United Kingdom

US-India airfares shoot up as impact of Russia's war in Ukraine continues

Invasion has resulted in fuel costs increasing; the closure of Russian airspace for western airlines