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  • IndiGo airlines has terminated two of its ground staff

    INDIA, 2016/05/15 IndiGo airlines has terminated two of its ground staff besides suspending three additional employees at the Srinagar airport for a week over security breach last month. The security breach at Srinagar Airport took place on April 1 at the same time as a senior AAI official allegedly misused his position and travelled on a boarding card of his subordinate. An IndiGo spokesperson confirmed the incident and termination of two of the airlines-employees. Sources, however, said that besides sacking the two employees on Friday, the Gurgaon-based budget carrier has as well suspended three ground staff employees for seven days and issued them "warning letters" for "negligence" next investigations found multiple security breaches by a high-ranking security official at the aerodrome.

  • China says it respects navigation freedom in South China Sea

    CHINA, 2015/11/15 China said Friday it respects freedom of navigation and overflight in the South China Sea despite reports its ground controllers issued warnings to US strategic bombers flying over the area this week. Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei said Friday that China opposed flights that used such freedoms as mere legal cover, strongly implying that Beijing considered the flights by the B-52 bombers on Sunday and Monday as an excuse to challenge China's territorial claims in the South China Sea. China "firmly opposes violating international law and undermining China's sovereignty and security interests under the pretext of navigation and overflight freedom," Hong told reporters at a regular news conference. Pentagon spokesman Bill Urban said Thursday the pair of B-52s flew routine missions in international airspace in the vicinity of the Spratly islands and received two verbal warnings from a Chinese ground controller.

  • China firm gains contract on feasibility study for Indian high-speed railway

    CHINA, 2015/09/30 A consortium of Chinese and Indian companies will conduct a feasibility study for a high-speed railroad linking New Delhi and Mumbai, China Railway Corporation (CRC) said on Wednesday. The Third Railway Survey and Design Institute Group Corporation, a subsidiary of CRC, will work with Indian firms, dispatching rail experts to initiate the study for the 1,200-km railway, CRC said.

  • SilkAir to offer services to Maldives together with Singapore Airlines

    MALDIVES, 2015/08/30 From 25 October 2015, SilkAir, the regional wing of Singapore Airlines, will begin four times weekly services to Male. Before, Singapore Airlines offered a variable frequency of 10 to 14 flights a week to the capital of the Maldives. Presently, together with SilkAir’s new services, both airlines will offer a total of two round-trip services a day, subject to regulatory approval. Centara Grand Island Resort & Spa Maldives - Beach AccessSingapore Airlines’ Senior Vice President Marketing Planning, Ms Lee Wen Fen, said: “By synergising the networks of both carriers, we are able to provide customers additional choice and better flexibility at the same time as planning their travel itineraries. This is an extra example of the Singapore Airlines Group’s commitment to continuously expanding our combined network and enhancing connectivity options for our customers.”

  • Azerbaijan,Pakistan to have air flight

    AZERBAIJAN, 2015/07/28 A direct air flight will operate between Azerbaijan and Pakistan. Turkish airlines will carry out the Islamabad-Istanbul-Baku flights, Azerbaijani Ambassador to Pakistan Dashkin Shikarov told Trend on Monday. Under a tripartite agreement between Azerbaijan, Pakistan and Turkey, Turkish airlines will operate the 3-hour flights twice a week (Monday and Friday). Ticket price is $600-650. The agreement on resuming the air transportation between the two nations was completed as a result of Pakistani President Mamnoon Hussain's official visit to Azerbaijan in March, 2015.

  • Air Seychelles Inaugural Flight to Mumbai Connects a Regional Diaspora to the Indian Subcontinent

    INDIA, 2014/12/05 After officially re-opening a regional thrice-weekly route to India\'s capital city of Mumbai on Wednesday, Air Seychelles\' CEO Manoj Papa promised that this time the Seychelles to India air link was here to remain . Air Seychelles briefly flew between the country\'s major inhabited island of Mahe and Mumbai in 1995 and again between 1998 and 2005, at one time with a stopover in the Maldives. Both times, the routes were halted due to low occupancy levels. This time, however, coupled with the commencement of a new direct regional flight to the east African city of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania which commenced Tuesday, and existing direct flights to Johannesburg, Air Seychelles hopes to tap into the large Indian diaspora living in Eastern and Southern Africa to sustain its connecting Mumbai link in the long term. The national carrier of the Seychelles arrived in India\'s commercial hub in its brand new Airbus A320, named Amirantes next an atoll within the outer reaches of the archipelago of 115 islands.

  • India airlines flying to US are harassed

    INDIA, 2014/02/03 The straining of Indo-US ties which saw Indian aviation safety ranking downgraded to Nicaragua level could presently see India taking the unprecedented step of mounting checks on foreign airlines' aircraft. Top aviation ministry sources say India will take all steps red-flagged by the US Federal Aviation Government (FAA) by March-end and would again 'expect ' to be restored to category I of aviation safety ranking. "We quickly expect to be back in category I next being questionably downgraded last week. All the steps will be taken by again. If still the downgrade is not reversed and our airlines flying to US are harassed unnecessarily, we will retaliate doing the same," said a top source.

  • Tribhuvan International Airport,Kathmandu,Nepal,Asia

    NEPAL, 2013/08/24  Tourism entrepreners have expressed concern over runway problems at Tribhuwan International Airport (TIA), saying that it may make adverse impact on tourist arrivals in the upcoming tourist season if it is not dealt with properly. Different travel trade associations like Hotel Association of Nepal (HAN), Nepal Association of Tour Operators (NATO) and Trekking Agencies Association of Nepal (TAAN) have urged the government to renovate the runway as any minute at this time as possible.

  • Gulf carriers seeking 150,000 more seats into India

    INDIA, 2013/07/20 Gulf carriers are likely to seek permission for additional than 150,000 additional seats a week in capacity from the Indian government, according to a statement from a world aviation consultancy firm. The Centre for Asia Pacific Aviation (CAPA), an international world aviation consulting firm, said access and flights to tier II Indian cities would see the need for increased capacity for Gulf carriers. “CAPA maintains a large dedicated aviation research practice in New Delhi so we monitor developments on foreign airline strategies in India and regulatory issues such as bilateral entitlements on a continuous basis. Our assessment that the Middle East carriers are seeking up to 150,000 additional weekly seats into India is based on this ongoing research,” a spokesperson said.

  • The global air cargo market growth

    ANGOLA, 2013/07/03 The International Air Transport Association (IATA) says the world air cargo market increase continued to flat line in May, broadly following the trend of the last 18 months. World freight tonne kilometers increased just 0.8 % in May compared to a year ago, IATA said in an official release on Wednesday. Capacity, however, increased by 2.1 % causing load factors to fall to 44.9 % — their lowest level since the post crisis recovery. As about 60 % of world air cargo utilizes capacity in the belly of passenger aircraft, managing capacity at a time at the same time as increase in air travel is outpacing that of cargo is particularly challenging.
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