Budget carrier GoAir on Sunday said it brought home around 5,000 Indian nationals, who were stuck in some of the Gulf countries amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, through 28 chartered flights operated between June 9 and June 20.
On June 4, Go Air tweeted: "GoAir has a zero-tolerance policy and it is mandatory for all GoAir employees to comply with the company's employment rules, regulations and policies, including social media behaviour. The airline does not associate itself with personal views expressed by an individual or an employee."
Without clarity on these conditions GoAir doesn't wish to inconvenience its passengers by putting on sale flights immediately post May 25. On receiving clarity, we will open our site for bookings post May 25 up to May 31 as and when and where appropriate, GoAir said in a statement.
Budget carrier GoAir is likely to resume domestic flight services from June 1, owing to certain "operational and regulatory" issues, sources said on Friday. Minister of State for Civil Aviation Hardeep Singh Puri had on Wednesday announced, through Twitter, that commercial passenger services on domestic routes will be allowed to operate from May 25 under a comprehensive Standard Operating Procedure (SOP), covering all stakeholders.
GoAir employees will be on 'leave without pay' till May 3 since operations are shut due to the coronavirus outbreak. The aviation sector in the country is one of the worst-hit sectors which is facing the brunt of coronavirus, amid such a situation, GoAir has decided to send the majority of its 5,500-odd employees on "leave without pay" (LWP) till May 3.
The Indian airlines are currently grounded but they slightly eased the tense situation with a witty Twitter thread on Friday.
"Even if the customer does not show up between 19th March 2020 and 30th April 2020 (at the airport), GoAir will automatically protect the customer's ticket and fare for travel on any future date until 30th April 2021.
After introducing a pay cut for all employees on March 25 as the coronavirus pandemic drastically impacted the aviation sector, GoAir CEO Vinay Dube told the employees on Wednesday that a portion of their March's salary has been deferred to April.
GoAir on Friday said it has offered government its aircraft, crew and airport staff to carry out emergency services and repatriation of citizens, two days after another low-cost carrier IndiGo made a similar offer.
The top leadership of GoAir is taking a 50 per cent pay cut with immediate effect, the airline's CEO Vinay Dube told its employees in an e-mail on Saturday.
The airline has suspended operation for 28 days effective Thursday (March 19) on the Aizawl-Kolkata-Guwahati-Imphal route as a preventive measure.
Private airline GoAir has decided to suspend international operations starting today, amid coronavirus outbreak. The carrier will also send its employees on leave without pay on a rotational basis amid limited operations.
Budget carrier GoAir will not charge any fee on cancellation or rescheduling of tickets booked till April 30 amid the coronavirus scare. The offer applies for all bookings made between March 8 and April 30 and for a travel period between March 8 and September 30.
Under UDAN scheme, budget airline IndiGo on Saturday launched daily direct flights on the Agartala-Aizawl-Guwahati route, facilitating passengers to travel among the northeastern states.
The right engine of Ahmedabad to Bengaluru GoAir flight suspected to have suffered foreign object damage (FOD) awhile take-off. The suspected FOD resulted in a small fire that has been doused.
Wadia group-promoted GoAir on Friday said it has appointed Vinay Dube as the airline's Chief Executive Officer. Till now, Dube was serving as an advisor to the carrier, a role which he took up after quitting the defunct Jet Airways in May last year.
GoAir on Tuesday announced that it will be starting a daily flight on the Mumbai-Doha route from March 19.
SpiceJet and GoAir became the third and fourth airlines, respectively, to take action against Kamra. While IndiGo suspended Kamra from flying with it for a period of six months on Tuesday itself, Air India banned him until further notice.
GoAir said on Friday that its Bengaluru-Phuket flight made a precautionary turn back and returned to Bengaluru after the plane faced a mid-air "technical glitch".
Budget airline GoAir on Thursday said it is temporarily suspending some flights due to Airbus and Pratt & Whitney deferring delivery of planes and engines, respectively. In the last four weeks, the carrier said, it has gone through unplanned grounding of aircraft, which were supporting its current operation of fleet.
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