Unimpressed by IndiGo's suggestion to allot grounded Jet Airways' unused slots in proportion to the fleet size of rival carriers, the government has decided to give higher seat quota on foreign routes to the carriers launching flights on unserved sectors or those witnessing spike in air fares.
IndiGo on Wednesday announced that it will start six new domestic flights to and from Kolkata from July 20.
The A320 NEO aircraft operated by IndiGo has faced a series of problems earlier with engine vibration being one of them.
Budget major IndiGo continued to cancel multiple domestic flights across the country on Sunday as its flight operations have been "badly disrupted" after hailstorm lashed parts of north India earlier this week.
An IndiGo Airbus A320neo plane suffered a mid-air engine failure with a "loud bang" on Thursday and the civil aviation ministry has taken serious note of the incident, sources said.
Private airline IndiGo is the "worst performing" carrier for consumers, while national carrier Air India has the best luggage policy, said a parliamentary panel chairman Derek O' Brien.
This is the first time that the carrier has posted a quarterly loss since getting listed in November 2015.
The shares of major aviation stocks surged by nearly 14 per cent on Wednesday.
In a bizarre incident, a drunk passenger tried to enter the cockpit of a Kolkata-bound IndiGo plane on Monday on the pretext of charging his mobile phone, according to a police official.
The bus caught fire when it was nearing the arrival point with about 50 passengers on board.
In a statement, the airline also announced the appointment Gregory Taylor as the Senior Advisor to the company.
IndiGo carries about 40 per cent of domestic flyers, while GoAir has a market share of around 10 per cent.
A man had to touch the feet of an air hostess at the Rajiv Gandhi International Airport here to apologise for misbehaving with her, authorities said on Monday.
Air India on Wednesday took a dig at the IndiGo Airlines following the incident of a passenger being manhandled by the latter’s ground staff which made the national headlines.
Aditya Ghosh said that the ex-staffer who is claiming to be the 'whistleblower' is the one who instigated the incident and prevented the customer from boarding the bus.
P V Sindhu on Saturday took to Twitter to slam the IndiGo airlines, alleging that that she was ill-treated by the airline staff during her flight to Mumbai.
Mumbai: A passenger on a Mumbai-Chennai IndiGo flight died on board of cardiac arrest even before the flight took off today, an airline official said. Ganesh Thapathi suffered a heart attack during the boarding process
Singapore: Eight budget airlines from Southeast Asia, Japan and Australia said on Monday they have formed what they called the world's largest alliance of low- cost carriers, enabling customers to book connections using a shared
Security agencies went into a tizzy after an unidentified caller on Wednesday informed them about bombs in 10 flights of Indigo Airlines.
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