Budget carrier GoAir on Sunday announced waiving of cancellation and rescheduling charges for its flights to and from Oman till January 14, citing some traffic "disruption" in the wake of demise of the Sultan of Oman.
Budget carrier GoAir on Sunday announced waiving of cancellation and rescheduling charges for its flights to and from Oman till January 14, citing some traffic "disruption" in the wake of demise of the Sultan of Oman.
GoAir on Tuesday said that its Delhi to Varanasi flight, with 50 passengers on board, did an "air turn back" due to a technical glitch. In aviation parlance, an air turn back is conducted to return the aircraft back to the airport from where the flight had originated.
"I am going to call Air India, IndiGo, SpiceJet and GoAir and also chairperson of the Khadi Gramodyog Commission, and request them to make both the choices available in flights," he said.
Aviation regulator DGCA has started the process of issuing show cause notices to approximately 100 pilots and senior executives of GoAir over alleged violation of flight duty time limit (FDTL) norms, a senior official said on Monday.
As bad weather and recent protests in several parts of the country over the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) have hindered flight schedules and caused delay in operations of several flights, GoAir on Thursday said its operations would be back on track by the end of the current week.
GoAir, which has come under fire from passengers for canceling dozens of flights abruptly earlier this week, on Thursday attributed the disruption in the network to delay in aircraft deliveries and non-availability of engines.
DGCA's decision to inspect PW engines came after a GoAir flight with such an engine had to return to Guwahati 10 minutes after take-off due to engine snag.
Budget carrier GoAir on Monday blamed a combination of factors such as inclement weather, low visibility and anti-CAA protests in certain parts of the country for disrupting multiple flights across the network.
GoAir has cancelled 18 domestic flights from cities including Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru, Kolkata and Patna due to non-availability of aircraft and adequate cockpit crew.
Go Air flight G8-2506 from Mumbai to Chandigarh, on Sunday did an air turn back to Mumbai due to a technical glitch. After the turn back the aircraft landed safely at Mumbai airport. Meanwhile, aircraft are being inspected and rectified by the GoAir engineering team.
An emergency was declared for Go Air flight (G8-2610) from Mumbai to Lucknow at 7:57 pm on Tuesday. As per reports, the emergency was declared due to a technical failure in the aircraft.
A major air mishap was averted with GoAir at Bengaluru Aiprort on November 11 when an aircraft landed outside the runway due to bad weather. All passengers are reported safe by news agency ANI. All the crew members was grounded and Directorate General of Civil Aviation(DGCA) has launched investigation.
GoAir has started its first "city check-in counter" at the New Delhi metro station, the airline announced on Monday.
Dube had quite defunct Jet Airways on May 14, nearly a month after the airline ceased operations due to severe liquidity crisis.
Singapore will be the airline's eighth overseas destinations, while Aizwal the 25 domestic one, GoAir said in a release.
With the addition of these new services, the airline will be operating a total of over 325 flights per day, taking the tally to 325 plus daily flights, it said.
In an unusual incident, a Bangkok-bound GoAir aircraft on Friday returned to the national capital after the crew found that they did not have the required approach and navigation charts.
The passenger who was scheduled to travel to New Delhi in the flight G8-151 did not cooperate while being frisked before boarding the aircraft and demanded to know why he was being checked so many times.
If you want to fly out of Srinagar this weekend, chances are you might have to shell out more money than normal. Airfares for flights from Srinagar have shot up to abnormally high levels, reason being Jammu and Kashmir's advisory asking pilgrims to curtail their Amarnath Yatra and return as soon as possible.
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