Jyotiraditya M. Scindia, the Union Minister for Civil Aviation, claimed on Wednesday that India’s aircraft fleet, which has increased to over 700 aircraft — an increase of more than 100% over the past nine years — has seen considerable growth.
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IndiGo Airlines (6E) CEO, Pieter Elbers, announced that the airline is targeting to transport 100 million passengers in the fiscal year ending March 2024.
On Friday morning, a tiny, experimental, adapted glider took off from the airport in Minden-Tahoe and made a record-breaking landing. Two electric batteries and one man behind the yoke propelled the three-mile-high Helios Horizon as it flew over Lake Tahoe.
On Sunday, a US plane tracked a Cessna jet that had crashed in Virginia after flying over the area and gave out a sonic boom that shook the Washington region.
SkyUp Airlines, a Ukrainian budget carrier, has been granted permission by the US Department of Transportation (DOT) to operate charter flights of its Boeing 737 fleet to the United States.
In light of the train crash in Balasore, Odisha, on Friday evening, the civil aviation ministry has issued a directive to airlines, urging them to address any significant increase in airfares to and from Bhubaneswar.
As per the Indian Civil Aviation Ministry data, the total number of passengers traveled for May month is 13.1 million; these are the historic figures.
The 79th IATA Annual General Meeting (AGM) and World Air Transport Summit will take place in Istanbul, Türkiye, according to an announcement by the International Air Transport Association (IATA), with Pegasus Airlines serving as the host airline.
On May 31, 2023, Poonawalla Aviation operated India’s first helicopter flight using the Indigenous GAGAN, GPS-aided GEO augmented navigation system.
Learn more about the observation, history, and significance of International Flight Attendant Day 2023, celebrated on May 31. Continue reading to discover the details.