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Airfares soar over 100% as airlines cancel flights

New Delhi/Mumbai: Air passengers face the grim prospects of high air fares and fewer flight choices as several airlines cancel operations due to a number of reasons including the grounding of 737-MAX aircraft. According to industry insiders, some sectors have shown a rise of more than 100 per cent in last minute bookings. “With an […]

  • Monday, 03 May 2021
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Passengers complain as flight cancellations continue

New Delhi: As airlines continued to cancel more flights on Thursday, passengers took to the social media to vent their ire. On the second straight day, 32 SpiceJet flights were axed on Thursday following the grounding of its 737-MAX aircraft. The budget carrier said: “Due to cancellations and rescheduling of some of our flights, we […]

  • Monday, 03 May 2021
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Jet lessors approach DGCA to de-register 18 aircraft

New Delhi/Mumbai: More turbulence seems to be in store for debt-ridden Jet Airways, as lessors to the airline have approached India’s civil aviation regulator to de-register 18 aircraft owing to unpaid dues. At present, Jet Airways’ operates 26 aircraft from a fleet size of 119. According to industry insiders, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation […]

  • Sunday, 02 May 2021
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Jet pilots, engineers joining SpiceJet at 30-50% pay cut

New Delhi: Low-cost carrier and top rival SpiceJet appears to be making the most of the crisis at Jet Airways. Spicejet is now hiring engineers and pilots at much lower pay than their current salaries at the financially-troubled Jet. Industry sources told IANS that pilots from Jet Airways are being asked to take salary cuts of […]

  • Sunday, 02 May 2021
Average airfares stay 10-15% high, more on non-metro routes

New Delhi: Airfares on domestic routes, especially those connecting non-metro cities, remain high with suspension of Jet Airways flights. The average ticket prices have gone up in the range of 10-15 per cent across various sectors even as airlines like SpiceJet and IndiGo have mounted additional capacity. “The average fare level is higher… in the […]

  • Sunday, 02 May 2021
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SpiceJet-Emirates MoU signals wider partnership ahead

New Delhi: In what suggests a beginning of larger partnership, low-cost carrier SpiceJet has announced to enter into a code-share agreement with Dubai’s flag carrier Emirates. The development assumes significance as grounded Jet Airways’ resurrection seems difficult throwing opportunity for other carriers to grab. So far, SpiceJet has led the race of capturing the domestic market […]

  • Sunday, 02 May 2021
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SpiceJet to launch 28 new flights connecting Mumbai, Delhi

New Delhi: Budget carrier SpiceJet will launch 28 new flights connecting Mumbai and Delhi with other cities on its domestic network from April 26. “Of these, 14 will connect Mumbai; eight will connect Delhi while the rest will connect the two metros. All the new flights are effective April 26,” said the airline in a statement. […]

  • Saturday, 01 May 2021
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SpiceJet aircraft overshoots runway at Shirdi airport

Mumbai: An aircraft of budget airline SpiceJet operating on the Delhi-Shirdi route, overshot the runway while landing at the Shirdi airport on Monday. According to the airline, no harm was caused to either the passengers or the crew. “On 29 April 2019, SpiceJet B737-800 aircraft operated SG 946 from Delhi to Shirdi. While landing at Shirdi, […]

  • Saturday, 01 May 2021
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Air India gets Jet's unused foreign traffic rights

New Delhi: State-run Air India seems to be finally getting its preferential rights in allocation of traffic rights over foreign routes after losing it to private carriers in the previous UPA government. The government has decided to allot it about 5,700 weekly seats out of grounded Jet Airways’ unused quota on the lucrative India-Dubai route. The […]

  • Saturday, 01 May 2021
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SpiceJet to launch Mumbai-Jeddah service from July

New Delhi: Budget passenger carrier SpiceJet on Thursday said that it will introduce a daily non-stop flight on Mumbai-Jeddah-Mumbai sector from July 5. According to the airline, Mumbai is the third destination after Hyderabad and Kozhikode to be connected to Jeddah. On the domestic sector, it will launch six new domestic flights connecting the country’s financial […]

  • Saturday, 01 May 2021
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SpiceJet adds 100th aircraft to its fleet

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 […]

  • Friday, 30 April 2021
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Domestic air passenger growth up 3.3% in May: report

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 […]

  • Thursday, 29 April 2021
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203 flights cancelled in Mumbai due to rains, skidding of jet

Mumbai: Flight services at the city airport were severely affected Tuesday with airlines cancelling 203 serivces due to incessant rains and suspension of operations from the main runway due to the skidding of an aircraft Monday night, airport officials said. Besides, another 350-odd flights –both arriving and departing — were delayed between 28-51 minutes (till […]

  • Wednesday, 28 April 2021
Spicejet technician dies in accident at Kolkata airport

Kolkata: A Spicejet technician died in an accident early on Wednesday while carrying out maintenance work on an aircraft at the NSCBI airport here, a highly placed official said. Rohit Bhushan Pandey, the trainee technician died, at 1.45 a.m. on Wednesday. “He was doing maintenance work on a Q400 aircraft, and accidentally the landing gear […]

  • Wednesday, 28 April 2021
SpiceJet to stop Jharsuguda-Delhi flights on Mondays

Jharsuguda: In a major development, SpiceJet authorities have reportedly announced to discontinue its flight services between Delhi and Veer Surendra Sai Airport in Jharsuguda on Mondays till September 30, 2019. The decision of Spicejet, however, has not gone well with the air travellers, although the officials of Jharsuguda Airport claimed that they haven’t received any […]

  • Tuesday, 27 April 2021
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