The new administration plans to privatize Sri Lankan Airlines, Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe told in a televised address to the nation Monday.
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This disinvestment is the second major sale from the government’s aviation portfolio in the last 12 months Air India went to Tata Group in January this year.
The Madras High Court on Friday rejected a plea from Air Corporation Employees Union to control the Union Ministry of Civil Aviation from disinvesting its 100 percent shares in Air India Limited to Tata Group without carrying appropriate measures to protect the terms and conditions of service and the rights of the workers.
Airfares are likely to fall up to 40% on an expected increase in the number of flights, following the government’s go-ahead for resumption of regular international air travel from March 27, expressed industry executives.
The Singaporean super jumbo is finally returning to India. Singapore Airlines yesterday declared it will start operating A380 flights to India from March 14th. For currently, Mumbai will be the only Indian city to get the Giant of the Skies, but Delhi is anticipated to follow soon.
I am declaring that we will join our allies in closing off American airspace to all Russian flights, Joe Biden told in his State of the Union talk.
The Dreamliner B-787 aircraft, with a total of over 200 seats, has been deployed for the special operation.
The UK is receiving exploration in the hydrogen space, with a new player coming on its shores this week. Earlier this week, was on the stage when HyPoint cut the ribbon to extend its latest hydrogen R&D and production site in the United Kingdom.
The Ministry of Health today gave new guidelines for international passengers coming to India from 14 February. The demarcation of countries ‘at-risk’ and other countries dismissed.
Once hailed among Covid-19 heroes for going beyond the call of responsibility to ferry life-saving drugs and coronavirus samples for testing, a pilot in Madhya Pradesh finds himself with an Rs 85 crore bill for damages of an airplane flown by him last year which crash-landed in Gwalior airbase.