Akasa Air seems to have its program in place for a July launch, with its CEO confident of starting ticket sales early next month. The airline was handed over its first Boeing 737 MAX airplane recently and will soon conduct establishing flights to receive its AOC.
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In an official statement, the low-cost carrier explained that it has installed a new water faucet by which it has saved 12.42 liters of water per flight for an average length of 138 minutes. IndiGo now operates 1,500 daily flights with an average flight duration of 98 minutes.
DGCA suspends the Air Traffic Control officer’s license for a period of three months, who was involved in a breach of separation’ at Bengaluru airport, reports.
While the Indian Navy’s shore-based trial facility in Goa has already performed flight test trials of the French Rafale-Marine alternatives, the testing of the US F-18 super hornet is slated to be completed by June 15.
India has seen aircraft movements exceed pre-pandemic levels as carriers try to lure more passengers to the skies.
IndiGo’s loss for the January-March 2022, quarter ballooned to Rs 1,681.8 crore, up 47% from a loss of Rs 1,147.2 crore, due to a mix of elements like the Omicron wave, costlier jet fuel, and a weaker rupee.
IndiGo is bracing for more competition with Akasa Air expected to be operational in the coming months while Jet Airways is likely to resume operations soon, information.
The regulation referred to is part of the Civil Aviation Requirements (CAR) (Section 3, Series ‘M’, Part I), which lays down “regulations for the carriage of persons with disabilities and reduced mobility by air to save them against discrimination and to ensure that they obtain all possible service during their journey”.
The Indian civil aviation industry has also bounced back from the Covid-19 pandemic-induced crisis, slowly but surely, with a lot of latent need arriving at the fore, civil aviation minister Jyotiraditya Scindia said to HT.
IndiGo becomes the first airline in Asia to land its aircraft operating the indigenous navigation system GAGAN, with Localiser Performance with Vertical Guidance (LPV) approach according to a piece of information given on April 28.