With Air New Zealand recording its highest rates of staff sick leave in over a decade and experiencing a series of disruptive last-minute flight cancelations, the airline is proactively trimming its timetables over the next 6 months.
Flights
A Go First flight G8911 operating from Ahmedabad to Chandigarh was diverted to Ahmedabad after a bird hit the plane on Thursday, said aviation regulator Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA).
A Qantas Boeing 737-800 inbound to Perth (PER) on Monday, July 18, announced a mayday after running low on fuel. The jet was in the last stages of a nearly six-hour flight across from Brisbane (BNE) when Perth air traffic controllers put the aircraft into an extended holding time. But with fuel onboard already running low, the pilots made the unusual call of a fuel mayday.
“The windshield of a Go-Air flight between Delhi-Guwahati cracked mid-air. Due to poor weather, the aircraft did not return to Delhi and diverted safely to Jaipur,” a DGCA official was quoted as saying by the news agency.
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.
World2Meet, the Spanish tourist group division under the Iberostar Group, is jet-setting its long-haul airline off for broader destinations as World2Fly inaugurates flight operations between Madrid and Orlando. Interestingly, the inaugural flight service was only marketed as a package through travel agencies, specifically Spanish agency NewBlue.
India’s aviation industry is rapidly growing as airport operators and airlines increase capacity in response to the pandemic’s spike in travel.
Vistara has introduced the development of its community with 5 weekly flights starting between Mumbai and Bangkok. These new flights will begin ranging on August 5, 2022. The airline will enhance its present connection between India and Thailand by operating its three-class Airbus A320neo plane on the route. The variety of flights between Delhi and Bangkok has now been elevated by the airline to daily service.
On an eventful day for the budget airlines, two Indian carriers, SpiceJet flight and Go First faced a technical snag on Tuesday. SpiceJet which has been facing a tough had another forgetful day as it saw two of its flights being forced to land due to a technical snag.
According to a senior airline official, Ethiopian Airlines intends to renew its code-sharing agreement with Air India of the Tata Group.