The Directorate General of Civil Aviation had indicated that in 2003 no aviation accidents had taken place, but the International Civil Aviation Organisation report for 2003 highlights substantial damage to a Jet Airways flight after touch down on the Mumbai r...
State Home Minister Thiruvanchoor Radhakrishnan says he does not plan to make Abdul Nasser Madani's travel mess-up into a contentious issue between Kerala and Karnataka. He says that Mos Civil Aviation must have information about the same for saying Bangalore ...
Bangalore police was lax in making proper arrangements for Abdul Nasser Madani's air travel, says MoS Civil Aviation KC Venugopal. The minister says he wil personally get involved to get the leader to Kerala to attend his daughter’s wedding. Madani, who is a...
The Union Civil and Aviation Ministry has scrapped the international flying rights and domestic slots of the grounded Kingfisher Airlines Limited, which could make its planned, phased restart even more difficult. The move is likely to make available 25,000 add...
The Civil Aviation Minister Ajit Singh says that the Kingfisher Airlines might be able to fly again only if they have at least Rs 10 billion to restart operations. According to the sources in the government, the government might help KFA if they paid off all t...
Civil Aviation Minister Ajit Singh has assured that the problems faced by fliers due to frequent cancellations of Gulf-bound flights will be solved before January 2013. Overseas Indian Affairs Minister Vayalar Ravi had met Ajit Singh to brief him about the pro...
Kingfisher Airlines chairman Vijay Mallya has met Civil Aviation Secretary KN Srivastava and has reportedly presented a revival plan for the debt-ridden Airlines. The DGCA had earlier suspended the flying license of KFA. Mallya has said that he briefed the Avi...
Kingfisher Airlines chairman Vijay Mallya has met Civil Aviation Secretary KN Srivastava and has reportedly presented a revival plan for the debt-ridden Airlines. The DGCA had earlier suspended the flying license of KFA. Mallya says that he briefed the Aviatio...
As the standoff between Kingfisher Airlines employees and management has come to an end, Vijay Mallya tweets saying that he welcomes all to work. In his tweet, he also thanks KFA employees for their faith in him and in the Airlines and for their continuing com...
Kingfisher Airlines CEO Sanjay Aggarwal plans to meet the engineers in the Delhi airport in an attempt to pacify the employees and coax them to return to work. The management has also agreed to disburse one month salary immediately so that the employees return...
The Indian Grand Prix is all set to rock the weekend, however for Kingfisher Airlines employees the competition is the only hope for them to meet their CEO Vijay Mallya. Mallya is expected to attend the F1 race and the employees are ready to stage a dharna to ...
Civil Aviation Minister Ajit Singh will meet the Kingfisher Airlines ground handling staff to chalk out a survival plan. He says that he will meet the employees to try and settle issues out of Court. The Minister had earlier said that the government was not in...
In what appears as a fresh twist, an insider who is in the know-how of things, has claimed that the Kingfisher Airlines crisis could have been averted had not the Civil Aviation Ministry been soft on the Airlines. The insider has alleged that Kingfisher Airlin...
Battling the perception war, Kingfisher Airlines head Vijay Mallya, comes out on his Twitter profile and says that he is not an absconder. 'I travel 24/7 where my multiple work responsibilities take me. Sections of media call me an absconder because I don't ta...
In what appears as a fresh twist, an insider who is in the know-how of things, has claimed that the Kingfisher Airlines crisis could have been averted had not the Civil Aviation Ministry been soft on the Airlines. The insider has alleged that Kingfisher Airlin...
Civil Aviation Minister Ajit Singh says that he knows that Kingfisher Airlines is in deep trouble and that the government cannot do anything about the situation. He also points out that the complete infrastructure of KFA has gone for a toss but the government...
In regard with the Kingfisher Airline fiasco, Union civil aviation minister Ajit Singh says that private firm employees do not come under any ministry's purview. He says the government can't interfere as Kingfisher is a private company. He agrees that though t...
Newshour | Following the DGCA's cancellation of the flying licence for Kingfisher Airlines, the company now comes up with a payment installment plan to pay all the dues. The first installment will be credited within 24 hours, the second in less than a week, an...
Centre Stage | The Kingfisher Airlines impasse continues as the employees have refused to accept the solution offered by the KFA officials. The officials have been attempting to pacify the agitating employees in vain. The Directorate General of Civil Aviation ...
News Night | The Kingfisher Airlines impasse continues as the employees have refused to accept the solution offered by the KFA officials. The officials have been attempting to pacify the agitating employees in vain. The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (D...
The striking Kingfisher Airlines employees have refused to accept the offer put forward by the Airlines. The KFA management had earlier said that the employees will get three months' salaries before Diwali. Subasa Mishra, spokesperson of KFA Engineers Union sa...
KFA employees refuse to accept the new three-month dues payment plan and demand that Vijay Mallya meet them face-to-face. The Kingfisher Airlines had decided to pay its employees three-month dues by staggering the payments. The first installment will be credit...
Civil Aviation Minister Ajit Singh says that he has no hopes for Kingfisher Airlines and that the company might not recover at all. He says that the complete infrastructure of KFA has gone for a toss and the government is not in the business of reviving privat...
The Kingfisher Airlines decides to pay its employees three-month dues by staggering the payments. The first installment will be credited within 24 hours, the second in less than a week, and the third month's salary after Diwali. The employees have not been pai...
KFA employees refuse to accept the new three-month dues payment plan. The Kingfisher Airlines had decided to pay its employees three-month dues by staggering the payments. The first installment will be credited within 24 hours, the second in less than a week, ...
The Kingfisher Airlines has decided to pay its employees three-month dues by staggering the payments. The first installment will be credited within 24 hours, the second in less than a week, and the third month's salary after Diwali. The employees have not been...
Finally the months-long agitation by the Kingfisher Airlines employees appears to have bore some fruit as the cash-strapped KFA has agreed to pay its striking employees a month's salary. There are no reports of if the employees have agreed to accept this offer...
Finally the months-long agitation by the Kingfisher Airlines employees appears to have bore some fruit as the cash-strapped KFA has agreed to pay its striking employees a month's salary. Meanwhile Kingfisher Airlines' shares have dropped down drastically follo...
Four passengers of the six accused of trying to hijack the Abu Dhabi-Kochi Air India Express flight arrived at Kochi airport to testify in the case. Among the other two accused passengers, Rashid didn't appear stating his father's demise as reason and Augustin...
Interior designer Pradeep Chakraborthy still awaits payment dues from the cash-strapped Kingfisher Airlines. The company owes him close to Rs 8 lakh in cash for several interior designing assignments that he had undertaken for the company. When he approached t...
The DGCA suspends the flying licence of the cash-strapped Kingfisher Airlines. As the employees await their unpaid salaries, and the company reels under a debt of more than Rs 7000 crore, chief Vijay Mallya chooses to remain silent. However, an official statem...
The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) suspends the flying licence of Kingfisher Airlines for failing to come up with a viable financial revival plan. The Vijay Mallya-promoted airline, which has not operated a single flight since October 1, had been...
The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) suspends the flying licence of Kingfisher Airlines for failing to come up with a viable financial revival plan. The Vijay Mallya-promoted airline, which has not operated a single flight since October 1, had been...
Kingfisher Airlines extends its lockout for another week until October 20 after the DGCA sent out a showcause notice to the management. The salaries have still not been paid fully to the employees and related issues are still being resolved. In the light of th...
Civil Aviation Minister Ajit Singh has dismissed reports of trouble with Air India and said that action would be taken only if the pilots approach the ministry. He said that the Directorate General of Civil Aviation did not receive any letter from the Air Indi...
Following mass agitations by the Kingfisher pilots, now it is the turn of Air India pilots to demand their dues. The pilots have written to the Civil Aviation Minister, Ajit Singh, demanding that he intervene and meet their salary demands. The pilots claim tha...
Civil Aviation Minister Ajit Singh states that the crisis-ridden Kingfisher Airlines would have to satisfy aviation regulator DGCA on all aspects including safety and issue of non-payment of salaries to its employees in reply to the show cause notice. The mini...
The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has served a show-cause notice to the debt-ridden Kingfisher Airlines asking why its flying permit should not be suspended or cancelled. The DGCA is also set to seek legal opinion from the Law Ministry as to how...
The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has served a show-cause notice to the debt-ridden Kingfisher Airlines asking why its flying permit should not be suspended or cancelled. Earlier Civil Aviation Minister Ajit Singh had given indications about the...
Reacting to the accusation that the Civil Aviation Ministry is being soft on the debt-ridden Kingfisher Airlines, Civil Aviation Minister Ajit Singh says that the Ministry is doing what it can do as per the rules. He goes on to say that the Director General of...
The Civil Aviation Minister has sent out a tough message to Kingfisher Airlines a day after the debt-ridden carrier extended its partial deadlock to Oct 12. Ajit Singh said that passenger safety cannot be compromised and Kingfisher will have to meet the DGCA g...
Civil Aviation Minister Ajit Singh has hardened his stand on the Kingfisher Airlines crisis, a day after the debt-ridden carrier extended its partial deadlock to Oct 12. Ajit Singh said that passenger safety cannot be compromised and Kingfisher will have to me...
Aviation Minister Ajit Singh has spoken out again on the Kingfisher crisis, saying that if employees are disgruntled then it is a question of passenger safety. The airlines has been forced to extend its partial lockout till October 12. The DGCA has filed a sta...
After Kingfisher CEO Sanjay Agarwal's meeting with the striking engineers and pilots failed to end the deadlock, the debt-ridden carrier extended its partial deadlock to Oct 12. Ajit Singh said that passenger safety cannot be compromised and Kingfisher will ha...
Newshour | The woes of debt-ridden Kingfisher Airlines have been aggravated following the suicide of the wife of a staff member. The reason for the suicide, as suggested by the suicide note, was the financial crisis faced by the family. But the Civil Aviation ...
Market Hour brings reactions from the insurance sector after the Cabinet clears bills and raises FDI in the insurance sector to 49 percent. The FDI in pension fund is also on par with insurance now. Finance Minister P Chidambaram says these reforms will influe...
News Night | Adding to the woes of the crisis-struck Kingfisher Airlines is the suicide of the wife of one of the staff members. The Airline is forced to take cognizance of the matter as financial crisis has apparently led to this extreme step. Civil Aviation ...
Civil Aviation Minister Ajit Singh has emphasized that the safety of the passengers is the primary concern. The DGCA has now filed a status report on Kingfisher Airlines, demanding that the Airline declare its future strategy. The Civil Aviation Minister Ajit...
The Kingfisher management will not be meeting with the DGCA today. The Kingfisher crisis continues to escalate as talks between the management and striking employees fails yet again. The DGCA has now filed a status report on Kingfisher Airlines, demanding that...
The Kingfisher crisis continues to escalate as talks between the management and striking employees fails yet again. A crucial meeting will now be held between the Kingfisher management and the DGCA. The Directorate General of Civil Aviation has now filed a sta...
The Kingfisher deadlock continues. Around 40-50 KFA ground staff and a few engineers were present at the emergency meeting with Sanjay Agarwal, the Kingfisher CEO. The employees have rejected the compromise formula pitched during the meeting. Civil Aviation Mi...
The Kingfisher Airlines CEO Sanjay Agarwal evades questions on the all-important meet with the KFA employees, which is likely to determine the future of the cash-strapped airline. The KFA crisis compounds as talks between the management and the striking engine...
Civil Aviation Minister Ajit Singh addresses the media on the issue of the Kingfisher crisis, which is gradually spiralling out of control. The KFA crisis compounds as talks between the management and the striking engineers fail for the second day in a row. Th...
The Directorate General of Civil Aviation sources have revealed that the Kingfisher Airlines will be allowed to operate only after they have paid the due salaries to their employees. The DGCA has also asked the cash-strapped Airlines to get the airworthiness c...
Aviation Minister Ajit Singh says that safety is non-negotiable and that the Kingfisher Airlines can begin anew its operations only after the certified engineer gives its the necessary permission after ensuring the passenger safety. The Directorate General of ...
Civil Aviation Minister Ajit Singh has said that passenger safety is of utmost importance and that the Kingfisher Airlines can restart its operations only if it gets the airworthiness certification from the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA).
Sources at the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) have revealed that partial lockout of the cash-strapped Kingfisher Airlines will be discussed during the meeting with the Airline management. DGCA has stressed that the safety of the passengers is non...
Jet Airways has aborted landing at the last moment to avert collision with a cargo plane at the Mumbai airport. The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has ordered a probe into why the cargo airliner overruled instructions. This is not the first insta...
Chief Secretary K Jayakumar will meet the Civil Aviation ministry and the Foreign Affairs ministry to hold the primary level discussions regarding Air Kerala. The airline is aimed at providing budget airline services to non resident Keralites mainly in the Wes...
Union Minister of Civil Aviation Ajit Singh says that providing affordable air connectivity to remote and interior areas of the country, the North Eastern Region and Tier-II & III cities of India is high on his priorities. For this new and innovative solution ...
Civil Aviation Minister Ajit Singh has ordered the immediate suspension of six senior Airports Authority of India (AAI) officials following irregularities in awarding airports' ground handling contracts. The CBI, which was ordered to probe into the alleged gra...
An Air India pilot Abjesh Prasad flew a Jeddah to Calicut bound Boeing 747-400 without a licence. The flight ended in Mumbai. Air India claims the DGCA had given its approval. The pilot has been let off with a warning.
Trinamool Congress chief and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has opposed the Foreign Direct Investment in civil aviation. She is also against the withdrawal of subsidies on fertilizers. These are in fact two of the key development proposals put forw...
Former Civil Aviation Minister Praful Patel will now have to clarify on a letter written in 2005 by a former Indian Airlines Chief, Sunil Arora. The letter exposes how Praful Patel and his officer on special duty allowed the beleaguered Air India to sink. Suni...
As Civil Aviation minister, Praful Patel ordered decisions that resulted in virtually destroying Indian Airlines and Air India. These decisions include forcing the airlines to fly on not-so-profitable routes, buying jet planes more than necessary, and benefiti...
The newly appointed Director General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) Prashant Sukul refuses to comment over the appointment of Anil Srivastava as the Chairman and Managing Director of Pawan Hans. The Aviation Ministry had made the appointment defying the orders of Ap...
The newly appointed Director General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) Prashant Sukul claims that there was no notification on Kingfisher Airlines and says that there was no proposal to send a notice to the cash-strapped Kingfisher Airlines. He further remarks that mos...
A day after DGCA Bharat Bhushan recommends the cancellation of Kingfisher Airlines he is unceremoniously sacked despite an extension. It is revealed that his sacking is directly related to his taking on KFA.
Shortly after the suspicious sacking of DGCA Bharat Bhushan despite an extension, Kingfisher Airlines issues a statement saying they are operating under stipulated saftey standards and have received no notice from the DGCA. Are KFA and other corporate lobbyist...
The Prime Minister Office writes to Civil Aviation Minister Ajit Singh questioning the sacking of DGCA Bharat Bhushan despite an extension. Ajit Singh claims ignorance of the extension given to Bharat Bhushan and says his succesor has been finalised on.
The Civil Aviation Minister Ajit Singh has refused to answer questions about the sacking of DGCA chief. In a totally unprecedented move the Civil Aviation Ministry had sacked EK Bharat Bhushan as chief of the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) withou...
The Civil Aviation Ministry sacks EK Bharat Bhushan as chief of the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA). The move to remove him was totally unprecedented as he was dismissed without any sort of prior notice. Prashant Sukul, joint secretary in the mini...
Pilots of the now-derecognized Indian Pilots' Guild (IPG) said 11 pilots would be on fast for at least 48 hours at Delhi’s Jantar Mantar, after which their place would be taken by fresh set of strikers. A similar exercise started at Mumbai's Azad Maidan on ...
Yoga guru Baba Ramdev meets JD(U) chief Sharad Yadav to seek his support in the campaign to bring back the black money stashed abroad. Ramdev had earlier met Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) chief and Civil Aviation Minister Ajit Singh, NCP chief Sharad Pawar and BJP p...
Civil Aviation Minister Ajit Singh finally comes down heavily on Air India pilots, and says that sacked pilots will not be reinstated and that pilots on strike will not be paid salaries.
AI pilots hold a coordinated protest march in Delhi and Mumbai as the Govt-AI stalemate enters the second month. The Aviation Ministry scrambles to get a contingency plan in action.
Making the Dharmadhikari Committee report on Air India public, Union Civil Aviation Minister Ajit Singh promises immediate implementation of suggestions in the report.
Following the Headlines Today exposure that unearthed the manner in which DIAL was offered prime land at highly discounted rates, the Civil Aviation Ministry seeks to review tender conditions.
Even as Air India bleeds due to the pilots strike, Civil Aviation Minister Ajit Singh organises a Maharaja-style trip to the US to take delivery of the Boeing 787 dreamliner.
As the stalemate between the Air India management and the Pilots' Guild continues, the losses for the airline are estimated at around Rs 150 crore in the last eight days.
With the Government stoutly refusing to negotiate with the striking pilots unless they return to work, there seems to be no end to the Air India crisis.
With the Government stoutly refusing to negotiate with the striking pilots unless they return to work, there seems to be no end to the Air India crisis.