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Govt moots longer flying hours to help airlines combat pilot crunch

Monday 2 June '08

The government is planning to relax stringent flying duty time limitations to help airlines mitigate the impact of acute pilot shortage.
Aviation turbine fuel price hiked by 18.5%

Sunday 1 June '08

With state-run oil firms today deciding to hike aviation turbine fuel prices by 18.5 per cent...
A-380, Dreamliner delays may prove boon for carriers

Saturday 31 May '08

Delays in the deliveries of the next generation Airbus A380 super-jumbo aircraft and the Boeing 787 ‘Dreamliner’ planes are turning out to be a blessing in disguise...
MSc grads may soon get to be ATCOs

Wednesday 28 May '08

Faced with a shortage of Air Traffic Control Officers , the Civil Aviation Ministry is mooting a widening in eligibility...
Plan panel draws House committee ire on airport revamp

Friday 23 May '08

The parliamentary standing committee on transport, tourism and culture chaired by CPI (M) leader Sitaram Yechury today...
‘New ground-handling policy to hit quality’

Wednesday 21 May '08

The Civil Aviation Ministry’s soon-to-be introduced ground handling policy has got a thumbs down from the country’s...
Fuel price-hit airlines on total economy drive

Wednesday 14 May '08

With rising crude oil prices severely impacting airline profitability, carriers are now drawing up big plans...
Airlines yet to translate lower jet fuel sales tax into reduced fares

Friday 9 May '08

While airlines have been quick to respond to the increase in aviation turbine fuel prices by hiking fuel surcharges...
Domestic airlines may soon fly into foreign ATF futures market

Tuesday 6 May '08

With the Multi Commodity Exchange of India soon to launch futures trading for aviation turbine fuel...
Airlines hoping to propel their way through turbulence using ATRs

Monday 5 May '08

At a time when rising jet fuel costs are driving away domestic air passengers and making airline operations increasingly unsustainable...
Passenger slowdown grounds airlines’ capacity expansion

Saturday 3 May '08

Soaring ticket prices Spice, Jet, Kingfisher-Deccan scale down plans
Sky-high fuel costs spur airlines to hike fares by over 30% in a year

Friday 2 May '08

With domestic airline carriers once again deciding to hike ticket prices on the back of rising aviation turbine fuel...
Uniform model for airport development in 2 months

Thursday 1 May '08

The ministry of civil aviation has sought to bring in an element of standardisation into the way state governments develop airports.
As govt mulls airline dedicated to N-E, carriers try to fly away

Tuesday 29 April '08

Full service players like Jet and Kingfisher and no-frills airlines like Deccan want to move from North-East due to economic unviability of operating there
Don’t expect to get high in the sky anytime soon

Saturday 26 April '08

Domestic air travellers may have to wait a while before they can down a beer or a glass of wine, in-flight.
Bulk fuel buy will save loss-hit NACIL Rs 200 cr

Thursday 24 April '08

Eight months into the merger of Air India and Indian, economies of scale are beginning to kick in for the combined entity, National Aviation Company of India Ltd.
Put on hold: 25 of Thulasidas’s final 45 promotions

Wednesday 23 April '08

With the controversy over bulk promotions given to over 45 National Aviation Company of India Limited...
Despite sweating losses, low cost airlines offer more summer discounts

Friday 18 April '08

As economy carriers scramble for higher market share and fuller flights, experts are warning that the strategy is likely to make the industry bleed even further
90% of low-income urban workers’ debt is ‘informal’

Thursday 10 April '08

Even as the government has sought to waive off the debt of a large proportion of the rural poor...
Move to increase accountability in EPC contracts

Thursday 27 March '08

With long-running delays in road projects significant mark-up costs and with many road contractors defaulting on quality...
Almost 75% of small, marginal farmers may not benefit from loan waiver

Wednesday 12 March '08

The Rs 60,000-crore bank loan waiver to relieve the debt distress of 4 crore small and marginal farmers may end up touching less than a quarter of them.
Core industries do badly; Survey asks govt to incentivise funding

Friday 29 February '08

The verdict is out. Key industrial and infrastructure indicators that have been showing a consistent downward slide over the last few months...
Eastern freight corridor funding won’t be any problem: Railways

Thursday 28 February '08

A day after Lalu Prasad declared that work on the dedicated rail freight corridor would take off in the coming fiscal...
Lalu invites pvt sector to board railway story

Wednesday 27 February '08

Amidst the largesse that Railway Minister Lalu Prasad Yadav today doled out in his last and most populist rail budget...
Industry hopes for share of Railway pie

Tuesday 26 February '08

When railway minister Lalu Prasad rises in Parliament to announce his last rail budget today...
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