Boeing and Airbus SE are both in the running for what could be one of the largest aircraft deals ever as formerly state-run Air India Ltd. is overhauled by new owner Tata Group
PM Modi recently said India will soon manufacture large passenger aircrafts. The country's aerospace industry is set for a paradigm shift. Will the dream of a made-in-India passenger plane take off?
Says it's looking at various partnering options for next-gen turboprop aircraft
Bommai also said both India and France can further boost their mutual cooperation, pointing at India's strides in IT/BT, aerospace, renewable energy and other sectors.
Unanswered questions remain over India's readiness for such a contingency
Maharashtra minister Uday Samant on Friday claimed that the deal to set up the Tata-Airbus C-295 transport aircraft project in Gujarat had been signed by the Centre in September last year when the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government was in power in the state. The state Industries Minister also slammed the opposition for creating "confusion" over the project. Samant said the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to set up the aircraft unit in Gujarat was signed by the Centre in September 2021. "Be it the Vedanta-Foxconn project or the Tata-Airbus project, the decision about where to set up these projects was taken before this (Eknath Shinde-led) government came to power in the state late June this year. The opposition is doing nothing except to criticise and create confusion among people," Samant said. "The central government had signed an MoU on September 2021 and the company had decided to take the project to Gujarat," he added. The defence ministry on Thursday said a consortium of Ai
The Ministry of Defence (MoD) on Thursday announced it had, for the first time, entrusted a private firm - Tata Advanced Systems (TASL) - to manufacture an entire aircraft for the military
A manufacturing facility for production of Airbus C295 transport aircraft will come up in Vadodara in Gujarat, Defence Secretary Ajay Kumar said on Thursday. The foundation laying ceremony for setting up of the facility will be held on October 30 and Prime Minister Narendra Modi will attend it, officials said. "For the first time, the C-295 aircraft will be manufactured outside of Europe," Kumar said. In September last year, India sealed a nearly Rs 21,000 crore deal with Airbus Defence and Space to procure 56 C-295 transport aircraft to replace the ageing Avro-748 planes of the IAF under a project that entails manufacturing of military aircraft in India for the first time by a private company. Under the agreement, Airbus will deliver the first 16 aircraft in 'fly-away' condition from its final assembly line in Seville, Spain within four years and the subsequent 40 aircraft will be manufactured and assembled by the Tata Advanced Systems (TASL) in India as part of an industrial ...
The GMR Group will provide the fully integrated aircraft maintenance engineer (AME) licensing programme at the GMR School of Aviation in Hyderabad, said the joint statement.
The airline's board was expected to meet on Monday to finalise the deal
Vietnam's budget airline VietJet Aviation will launch 13 new routes between the Southeast Asian country and India later this year. It also planned to add more Airbus A330 planes
IndiGo's 75 new Airbus aircraft will be outfitted with "comfortable" seats of German company Recaro from January 2023 onwards to upgrade passenger experience, a statement said on Monday. IndiGo's current fleet of over 280 Airbus aircraft are equipped with 'Dragonfly' seats of French company Safran. Recaro's 'BL3710' economy class seat will be installed on 75 Airbus aircraft -- A320neo and A321neo aircraft -- starting from January 2023, stated the joint statement of IndiGo and Recaro on Monday. India's largest carrier IndiGo will be the first airline in the Indian sub-continent to feature the BL3710 seat of Recaro, it mentioned. "The combination of the ergonomic design and weight of less than 10 kg per passenger has made the BL3710 economy class seat a bestseller since it first entered the market in 2019," it noted. Sanjay Kumar, Chief Strategy and Revenue Officer, IndiGo, said, As we expand our network, domestically and internationally to cater to the travel demand, the comfortabl
Jet Airways plans to lease 20 Airbus A320s by 2024
Discussions are for A320neo jets and A220 planes, say sources
Tata-led Air India has seen its market share continuously decline since March as around 30 of its 113 aircraft have been grounded for varying periods
Air India is looking to buy as many as 300 jets, which may be Airbus SE's A320neo family jets or Boeing Co.'s 737 Max models, or a mix of both
The planemaker and airline plan to invest as much as $200 million to accelerate the adoption of SAF in the country, they said Sunday
While Air India has zeroed in on Airbus's A350 wide-bodied aircraft for the procurement, the talks with Airbus and Boeing for narrow-bodied aircraft is still on, say aviation industry sources
The first aircraft is likely to be inducted by first half of 2023
Capacity expansion would be crucial in wake of increase in competition in domestic market, revival in international traffic