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Terms issued for system to cut landing time

Friday 8 August '08

The Directorate General of Civil Aviation today issued civil aviation requirements for the much talked of Performance Based Navigation...
RFQ row: Haldea rolls up sleeves to evaluate bids for road projects

Wednesday 6 August '08

With several infrastructure projects getting delayed allegedly because of the new request-for-qualification...
NHAI may review bids for Andhra road project

Tuesday 5 August '08

Even as the new request for qualification document has kicked up a row in the infrastructure sector, a Rs 1,400-crore...
Airfares follow ATF to a new altitude

Friday 1 August '08

Air travel just got costlier. As oil marketing companies hiked aviation turbine fuel prices by 2.8 per cent today...
Chennai airport revamp set to take off after green signal today

Tuesday 29 July '08

With the Supreme Court upholding the Tamil Nadu government’s decision to acquire land for the expansion...
Maya’s airport crashlands in politcal mess

Saturday 19 July '08

With changing political dynamics at the Centre, Bahujan Samajwati Party chief Mayawati’s pet airport project at Greater Noida in Uttar Pradesh seems to have gone into deep freeze.
GMR secures 80% of bid for Istanbul airport

Thursday 17 July '08

Within three months of being awarded a 1.9 billion euros contract to build and operate the new Istanbul airport...
Price wary, more people preferred to stay off air in June

Saturday 12 July '08

Airlines’ worst nightmare is coming true with fuel costs showing no signs of softening and fewer people opting to fly.
Aviation ministry meets today to decide UDF policy

Friday 11 July '08

In a bid to bring in an element of uniformity on the issue of user development fee being charged by some airports...
Air India on cost-cutting route to stay afloat

Thursday 10 July '08

In a desperate bid to stay afloat, bleeding national carrier Air India has chalked out an action plan that would help it save Rs 1,800 crore...
Projects worth Rs 50,000 cr hit a roadblock called RFQ

Saturday 5 July '08

As many as 35 public private partnership infrastructure projects worth around Rs 50,000 crore are stuck ever since the government...
Mammoth insurance cover for NACIL’s fleet

Wednesday 2 July '08

The $6.5-billion insurance cover for the state-run Air India-Indian combine has been awarded to a public sector insurer’s...
Loss-hit airlines won’t pay commission to agents

Thursday 26 June '08

Faced with the prospects of a staggering Rs 8,000-crore loss this year, Air India-India, Jet and Kingfisher have, in a bold...
DGCA may stay on as no one else fits the bill

Tuesday 24 June '08

The director general of civil aviation Kanu Gohain, who was set to hang up his boots at the end of this month...
Soaring fares shift airline market shares in the country

Saturday 21 June '08

Soaring airfares have succeeded in keeping domestic air travellers grounded.
Bigger bucks for Indian manufacturing

Friday 20 June '08

India is likely to emerge as the world leader in new manufacturing investments with 25 per cent of global...
Planes on water, now in India

Wednesday 18 June '08

Taking off and landing on water is now a reality. The directorate general of civil aviation today issuing detailed operational and safety norms for businesses...
States may not cut tax on ATF

Tuesday 17 June '08

Prospects of air travel becoming more affordable continue to remain slim, with state governments once again deferring a decision...
Trains overtaking domestic airplanes on short routes

Saturday 14 June '08

Airline losses are set to become the railways’ gain. As soaring domestic airfares make travellers cringe at the thought of flying...
Airlines trim costs by pruning services

Friday 13 June '08

Following the mantra of ‘Fly less to save more’, loss-hit domestic airlines have started pruning services in a bid...
Review of pilots’ air-time set to hit legal roadblock

Tuesday 10 June '08

Peeved by the Ministry of Civil Aviation’s intent to review the existing pilot-friendly flying duty time limitation...
Bar on airline handling cargo stirs row

Saturday 7 June '08

Coming down on the operators of Bangalore International Airport Ltd for barring an airline from handling its own cargo at the airport...
Get an ombudsman, govt tells airlines

Thursday 5 June '08

Harried air passengers will soon have an ombudsman to hear their grievances and negotiate fair settlements between a consumer and an airline.
A red letter from Patel to PM

Thursday 5 June '08

The airline industry’s grim projection of Rs 8,000 crore in losses this year has prompted the civil aviation ministry...
Airlines cock a snook at new refund rules

Wednesday 4 June '08

Airlines are finding new ways to cock a snook at the Directorate General of Civil Aviation on its new refund rules for cancelled tickets.
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