The Month That Was-for The Flying Birds

Airline news round-up from all over India

Air India

July 06 As part of restructuring its top hierarchy, Air India plans to hire some senior executives, including a Chief Strategy Officer and a Chief Operating Officer for its lowcost international arm Air India Express.

June 30 The Air India engineering crew today started evacuating the debris of the IX 812 Air India Express plane that crashed in a village near Bajpe airport on May 22.

June 30 New Delhi: National flag carrier Air India has reshuffled a dozen top managers, including some from human resources (HR), a month after a strike led to the cancellation of 138 flights and caused a loss of Rs10 crore.

June 28 The Delhi High Court Monday directed Air India’s holding company, National Aviation Company of India Ltd ( NACIL), to de-seal the employees’ union offices that were sealed during a strike last month.

June 27 Air India will have a single code by March next year on which it will be operating all its domestic and international flights and selling their tickets.

June 23 After 25 years of avoiding the mirror of accountability, Canada has turned to face its failure to stop the Air India bombing, with a full and powerful apology from Prime Minister Stephen Harper.

Jet Airways

July 04 Jet Airways awaits govt nod to launch more flights to Colombo. Jet Airways has so far not got official permission to launch additional flights to Colombo, four months after it applied, an airline official said

July 03 The Brihanmumbai Electricity Supply and Transport (BEST) committee, on Friday, has cleared the proposal, to allot 12 King Long buses to Jet Airways ( Kambhatta Aviation Pvt Ltd) for carrying fliers from the plane to the airport terminal and back.

June 22 Jet Airways will connect Ranchi and Kolkata with a daily flight from Wednesday, making the Jharkhand state capital its 44th domestic destination.

June 21 Jet Airways has emerged as the airline with the maximum number of passenger complaints during April and May.

June 22 Jet Airways has decided to lease six shorthaul ATR jets from Ireland based Investec International.

Kingfisher Airlines

July 08 Kingfisher Airlines has agreed to pay all its dues to Hindustan Petroleum Corp ( HPCL) by July 31, after the government directed the state-run firm to stop supply of jet fuel to the airline.

June 27 Finnair, which flies daily between Helsinki and New Delhi, is looking forward to selling more Indian destinations through One World partner Kingfisher Airlines, but in the long-term wants to launch its own direct services to other metros.

June 18 A move by India’s Kingfisher Airlines to join the oneworld global airline alliance will help Qantas in its quest to increase its presence on the subcontinent, according to chief executive Alan Joyce.

June 17 UB Group-controlled Kingfisher Airlines has brought down foreign stake in the company from around 53% to 49%, just withn the prescribed foreign investment cap of 49% permitted in the airline business in India.

Goair

June 17 GoAir is in the process of adding additional two A320-200 aircraft (180 seater) to its existing fleet of eight aircraft by August and September this year. With the increase in fleet size, the airline is planning to either add new destinations or enhance its operations on the current route network.

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Paramount Airways

July 06 Chennai-based Paramount Airways plans to expand its route network as it inducts ten aircraft in its fleet by December this year, an airline official said on Tuesday.

July 06 Paramount Airways got a lease of life from the Madras High Court on Monday, which gave an interim order allowing the regional carrier to operate its flights.

July 03 The licence of the Chennai-based Paramount Airways has been suspended by the Directorate-General of Civil Aviation (DGCA).

Spicejet

July 06 Dubai-based investment house Istithmar World PJSC on Tuesday offloaded 6.89 per cent stake in the low cost carrier SpiceJet for Rs 118.54 crore, through an open market transaction.

July 05 Neil Mills, currently serving as the chief financial officer (CFO) of the Middle- Eastern low-cost airline Flydubai will be the new CEO of SpiceJet.

July 01 SpiceJet’IndiGo Sanjay Aggarwal has quit the firm marking the second exit from the company in a month

Indigo Airlines

July 08 Two persons hacked into the website of an authorised travel agent of of Indigo Airlines, causing a loss of more than Rs 65,000 to the latter.