Tag: Domestic Flight

New Delhi: Budget passenger carrier SpiceJet on Monday announced 14 new domestic flights and enhanced frequency on some routes effective from July 1. “Effective July 1 the airline is all set to introduce new direct flights on the Pune-Patna, Chennai-Rajahmundry, Hyderabad-Calicut and Bengaluru-Tuticorin sectors,” SpiceJet said here in a statement. The airline would also enhance […]

New Delhi: India’s domestic air passenger traffic rose to 1.07 crore in February 2018 — up 24.14 per cent — from 86.55 lakh in the corresponding month of 2017, official data showed on Monday. The total domestic air passenger traffic had risen to 1.14 crore in January. Data furnished by the Directorate General of Civil […]

New Delhi: Budget airline IndiGo on Tuesday announced its Delhi-Gorakhpur daily flight service would start from September 1. Bookings can be done with immediate effect on the airline’s official website at fares starting from Rs 3,199, IndiGo said in statement. Gorakhpur would be the airline’s 57th destination and the third in Uttar Pradesh Pradesh after […]

New Delhi: Jet Airways promoter Naresh Goyal and his wife on Monday announced their decision to step down from the board of the airline he had founded 25 years ago under pressure from lenders who are being seen as rescuers of an asset that nearly went bust but for the government’s intervention. Experts say the […]

New Delhi: Budget airline SpiceJet on Sunday said it has added a new Boeing 737 aircraft to its fleet, taking its total strength to 100 aircraft. SpiceJet is the fourth domestic airline to have 100 aircraft in its fleet, after Air India, IndiGo, and the now grounded Jet Airways. Its fleet now comprises of 68 […]

New Delhi: Passenger traffic in India’s domestic aviation industry rebounded in May with a year-on-year growth of 3.3 per cent, said an ICRA report on Friday. The rise comes after the industry reported a 4.4 per cent “de-growth” in traffic in April. “This is primarily attributable to the gradual increase in capacity as airlines like […]

New Delhi: After rapidly expanding its presence in Asia, Europe and the Middle East, India’s largest air passenger carrier IndiGo plans to add destinations such as Hanoi and Chengdu to its flight schedule from September quarter onwards. IndiGo’s Chief Commercial Officer William Boulter told IANS that the airline has received clearances from the Vietnamese authorities […]

Bhubaneswar: After a hiatus of almost two months, domestic flight operations commenced in over 60 airports across India, including in Odisha today. The services started after Union Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri announced last week to reopen Indian airspace for all domestic airlines. The flight operations in India recommenced with the departure of a […]