Author: Shweta Shukla

Europe’s travel disruptions restart to worsen as the German national carrier, Lufthansa, plans to scrap an additional 2,000 flights until the end of next month. These latest cuts bring the total number of revoked flights to nearly 6,000, but even the massive number can’t seem to lighten the chaos in the aviation industry.

For the first time, Bengaluru will be directly connected to Vietnam by air. Vietnamese carrier Vietjet is all set to begin flight operations between the Karnataka capital and major cities, including Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh, and Da Nang from early November.

Western Australia’s biggest business delegation is now on a multi-city visit to India. While discussions are mainly focused on trade relations between the two regions, the stakeholders also spoke about the possibility of a direct flight connection between Perth and India.

In celebration of its 90th birthday and recognition of its dedicated workforce, Alaska Airlines is surprising each employee with a gift of 90,000 miles. The carrier told,

American Airlines will enter the New York-Mexico City market by announcing a new route on November 4. It will complement its connectivity to Mexico’s biggest city, now served formulas/Fort Worth, Miami, Phoenix, Charlotte, and Los Angeles.

A QantasLink Boeing 717-200 remains stuck in the mud at Rockhampton Airport on Queensland’s mid-north coast. The plane became bogged in the grass alongside a taxiway early on Monday evening after flying in from Brisbane. Almost 48 hours later, the jet stays firmly on the ground. It’s another aircraft temporarily out of action at Qantas and another headache for the airline.c

Thai Airways is reactivating three Airbus A330s and two Boeing 777s ahead of the bustling summer travel season. The carrier is seeing strong need through July and August, with Europe appearing as the most-booked market for July and beyond.

In its 2022 Global Market Forecast, Airbus forecasts the demand for 39,490 new passenger and freighter aircraft over the next 20 years. The 2022 forecast is 470 aircraft over last year’s, which Airbus attributes to boosted demand for the new technology and fuel-efficient aircraft to replace older planes. The forecast is also positively impacted by 2021, an especially weak year for aviation, falling out of the 20-year forecast time.

PM Narendra Modi is all set for his Bihar-Jharkhand visit on Tuesday and he will unveil developmental projects of more than ₹16,800 crores in Deoghar, including the inauguration of an airport, for which the Prime Minister had laid the foundation stone in Jharkhand on May 25, 2018. Notably, the Deoghar airport will be the second international airport in Jharkhand after Ranchi.

The Kingfisher Airlines fiasco resumes haunting its owner and employees even a decade later. An Indian airline has gone from promising 5-star service to passengers to operating out of funds to pay its employees. Its owner, Vijay Mallya, who is now in the UK, is often in the information at court trials, and every time a new sentence is declared, he scratches the wounds of several former workers who are still waiting for their dues to be paid.