New Delhi: As air travel resumes in India in fits and starts after the COVID-19 lock-down, Indian airport operator GMR Group has launched contact-less food ordering solution for passengers at the Delhi and Hyderabad airports that they manage. The effort, according to a company statement, is a step […]
New Delhi: India’s civil aviation ministry today decided to permit the use of drone by farmers and agriculturalists for anti-locust operations, based on a request from the agriculture and farmers welfare ministry. In a major decision, the Ministry of Civil Aviation permitted the use of Remotely Piloted Aircraft […]
New Delhi: American aeroengine maker Pratt & Whitney today said an Air India subsidiary will perform the Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul (MRO) for the company’s Geared Turbofan (GTF) engines and customers in India. Air India Engineering Services Limited (AIESL) will service PW1100G-JM engines at its facility in Mumbai. […]
Lucknow: Airbus India and Adani Defence and Aerospace today signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) at DefExpo 2020 to leverage synergies in aerospace and civil aviation sector. The MoU was signed by Airbus India and South Asia President and Managing Director Anand Stanley and Adani Defence & Aerospace […]
New Delhi: India’s Narendra Modi government has taken the significant step towards strategic disinvestment from the national carrier Air India by issuing the Preliminary Information Memorandum (PIM). Minister of State for Civil Aviation Hardeep Singh Puri said at a press conference here today that the newly constituted Air […]
New Delhi: India’s civil aviation sector is expected to show robust growth with the government planning an investment of $3.5 billion in improving airport infrastructure across the country, even as the aircraft fleet is poised to soon be 2,000-strong. At an event here yesterday to mark the curtain […]
New Delhi: In a bid to prepare regulatory framework for long-range drones operations, India will soon conduct ‘beyond visual light of sight’ test flights of unmanned aircraft systems. The Narendra Modi government will also begin registering of drones in a few weeks to bring the operators under the […]
New Delhi: India’s Flight Simulation Technique Centre (FSTC) has become the first Approved Training Organisation (ATO) in the region to induct a Level-D Full Flight ATR72-600 simulator, with Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) giving certification to its brand new ATR 72-600 simulator. The Full Flight Simulator has […]
New Delhi: India’s cabinet headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi today approved agreements on security cooperation with Saudi Arabia and Uzbekistan respectively to fight terrorism and organised crime. The approvals came ex-post facto for both the agreements that were signed on Oct. 29 and Nov. 20 by India, […]
Indore: Aiming to spur career of women in aviation and related industries and to encourage girls to take up science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) as subjects of study, the Indian chapter of Women in Aviation International and defence major Lockheed Martin India Private Limited, in association with […]
New Delhi: Facing a huge challenge over in-flight shutdowns in its engines fitted on Indian affordable airline IndiGo‘s Airbus A320neo aircraft, American firm Pratt & Whitney today announced the appointment of industry veteran Ashmita Sethi to the leadership role of managing director for the South Asian nation. In […]
Bengaluru: In a first, Indian Air Force‘s (IAF’s) radar controllers have shifted go sit with their Airport Authority of India (AAI) counterparts at the Kempegowda International Airport, Bengaluru (KIAB), a major initiative to co-locate and facilitate ease of doing their business. The initiative has been taken by the […]
Mumbai: India’s leading industrialist Mukesh Ambani has ventured into the emerging drones market with the Rs 23-crore equity shares acquisition by Reliance Industries Limited in Asteria Aerospace Private Limited. Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) said in a filing with the stock exchanges today that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Reliance Strategic […]
Bengaluru: India’s lone aircraft manufacturer, Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL), today announced the final settlement of its nearly two-month-old workers’ trouble at all its plants across the nation over wage revision. In a statement, HAL said its management and the workforce entered into an agreement to settle the wage […]
Moscow: The Russian Helicopters today said it has got its Mi-171A2 helicopter certified in India and Colombia and this allows the state-owned Russian company to start exporting the latest modification of the multirole civilian helicopter soon. Russian Helicopters JSC, part of Rostec State Corporation, said the Indian Civil […]
