Civil Aviation Minister hopeful of privatising Air India this year
News | August 31, 2020 9:24 ISTCivil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri on August 30 said that Government should not be running airports and airlines.
Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri on August 30 said that Government should not be running airports and airlines.
Signalling a thaw in the interface between Air India pilots and the government, Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Puri has given an assurance to the pilots that he will review the disproportionate pay cut as well as examine payment of pending 25 per cent arrears.
The process of stake sale in the national carrier was initiated on January 27. This is the fourth extension given by the government for putting in bids.
Air India's Vande Bharat Mission flights to and from Hong Kong have been banned by Hong Kong authorities citing "poor pre-flight" testing and allegedly ferrying too many Covid-19 positive passengers.
Air India has now accepted that 57 pilots seeking greener pastures had resigned from the services of the airline citing financial constraints.
Soon Prime Minister Narendra Modi, President Ram Nath Kovind and other VVIP dignitaries will fly in Boeing 777-300ERs that India is set to receive from Boeing in United States. Two Boeing 777-300ERs will arrive in India from the US for which officials have already left to receive the aircraft. Key takeaways.
Air India pilots have sought the intervention of the management on the issue of "illegal termination" of 50 pilots from service. In a letter to Rajiv Bansal, Chairman and Managing Director, Air India on Friday, the Indian Commercial Pilots Association (ICPA) said around 50 pilots have received illegal termination letters from the Personnel Department in blatant violation of company's operation manual and service rules.
An association of ex-servicemen has demanded that Captain Deepak Sathe, who piloted the Air India Express flight which crashed in Kozhikode in Kerala on August 7, be given an award for saving the lives of most of the passengers.
Air India Express said on Monday that it has contracted a US-based company to recover and restore the baggage of the crew and passengers of its plane that crashed in Kozhikode.
The ongoing investigation in the Air India Express flight IX-1344 that crash-landed on Friday evening at Calicut (Kozhikode) International Airport is continuing and will take some time before it is completed, Air India Express said in a statement.
Air India Express plane with 190 onboard that crashed on Friday evening while attempting landing amid heavy rains at Kerala's Kozhikode airport has so far claimed 18 lives including both the pilots. Here's an account of the first 5 minutes after flight crash-landed at the Kozhikode airport.
A day after the crash of an Air India Express plane at Kozhikode's tabletop runway during landing has brought the focus on some of India's other airports which are more risk-prone when compared to others and internationally prescribed parameters of landing and runway safety technologies.
The Directorate General of Civil Aviation will be contacting Boeing to get to the bottom of any defects in the aircraft which crashed at the Kozhikode airport day before yesterday. Anil Kumar, DG, DGCA, has said that aeronautics major Boeing will be contacted to examine the aircraft's original equipment and to check for any defects.
Air India Express plane, that crash-landed on Friday evening at Kerala's Kozhikode airport when it was trying to land on the table-top runaway, has claimed 18 lives so far including its pilot and co-pilot. The plane was carrying 190 onboard. A loot at how survivors recall horrific account.
The bodies of the pilot and co-pilot of the Air India Express flight that crashed while attempting to land at the Karipur airport here, were handedover to their families on Saturday.
Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri, who visited the Air India Express plane crash site in Kerala's Kozhikode, has said that the aircraft had enough fuel to divert the landing somewhere else.
Captain Deepak Sathe, pilot of the Air India Express flight that crashed on Friday evening while attempting landing at Kerala's Kozhikode airport amid heavy rains, had planned for a surprise visit on mother's birthday who is in her 80s.
Air India plane crash: It has now come to light that as landing gear of the plane did not deploy, pilot Sathe made three rounds of the airport so that fuel tanks were empty. This created a massive difference as the plane didn't catch fire after it crashed. Sathe died in the crash, but his actions may have saved lives of more than 100 people onboard the plane.
Aviation regulator DGCA had issued a show-cause notice to the director of the Kozhikode airport on July 11 last year after it found "various critical safety lapses" in different places, including the runway and the apron, officials said on Saturday.
Deepak Sathe, pilot of the ill-fated Air India Express flight that crashed killing 18 onboard including the co-pilot, was a very experienced Captain on Boeing 737. A look at who was Sathe and a brief about his flying career.
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