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COVID times: Airlines industry awaits guidelines for vaccinated passengers

An official of the International Air Transport Association (IATA) on Monday told PTI that regulations and restrictions to travel are determ...

Can Air India pay a month's salary to terminated contractual pilots: HC asks national carrier

The court was hearing two pleas moved by the pilots, through advocate Lalit Bhardwaj, for quashing an April 2, 2020 order suspending their ...

DGCA to allows domestic airlines to offer discounted ‘zero baggage/no check-in baggage fares’

NEW DELHI: Flying within the country without any check-in baggage could soon get much cheaper. Light fares offered by airlines for passenge...

Jet's would be owner also planning airport, airline in Uzbekistan

The National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) is hearing the Kalrock-Jalan consortium’s revival plan for bankrupt carrier Jet Airways. The plan ...

Kalrock-Jalan to pay Rs 1,183 crore to Jet's creditors over 5 years

Outside of the resolution plan, the consortium has also offered to buy 51% of Etihad Airways’ stake in Jet’s loyalty programme, Jet Privile...

CCI finds no proof of cartelisation among 5 airlines, ends ticket price fixing probe

In a suo motu case in 2015, the CCI had ordered a probe into alleged anti-competitive practices after it noticed similar priced tickets bei...

IFSC Authority announces framework for aircraft leasing companies

Taking forward the Budget announcement to make India an aircraft leasing hub, the International Financial Services Centre Authority (IFSCA)...

ET Graphics: Airlines inch closer to normalcy

Indian carriers saw a 5.5% increase in passenger numbers in January compared with December. However, year-on-year, passenger traffic fell 3...

Vistara commences flight operations to Germany from India

The inaugural flight, operated by a new Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner, departed Delhi at 3.30 am (IST) on Thursday and landed in Frankfurt at 7.5...

Domestic air passenger flown in January 21 up over December 20; down 39.5% YoY

Demand for air travel continued to grow during the month of January 2021 on the back of capacity addition by airlines and increase in the n...

Lufthansa terminates services of 103 India-based flight attendants

In a statement to, a Lufthansa spokesperson said that severe financial impact of the coronavirus pandemic leaves it with no choice but to r...

Airlines permitted to fly only 80% of pre-COVID flights till March-end: Govt

The summer schedule begins at the end of March for all the airlines. Aviation regulator Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) approv...

Fare band for airlines will be done away as soon as normal operations resume: Civil Aviation Secy

He said flight operations are operating at 80 per cent capacity of the pre COVID-19 period. Of the 80 per cent, the utilisation has only be...

Digital transformation vital to airline recovery and future profitability

According to a study by Amadeus scientists in the Journal of Revenue and Pricing Management, a 10% increase in forecast accuracy can lead t...

Indian airlines to increase fleet despite pandemic: Economic Survey

The survey says that the fleet strength of airlines was 669 by the end of 2020 fiscal, which will increase to 713 by the end of the current...

Budget should focus on reviving airline ops and boost demand: ICRA

ICRA also says that the government, which presents the Budget in February, could look at a possible reduction in taxes on aviation turbine ...

Challenging outlook for airlines despite vaccine progress: IATA

While the industry saw some modest improvement in bookings after the vaccine announcement news in the fourth quarter of 2020, the trend was...