An Air Deccan flight, which was grounded because of a bird hit at the Visakhapatnam airport. Bird hits have proved especially expensive to airlines this year.

Cash-strapped airlines have been pounded on another front suffering a loss of at least Rs 7 crore this year on account of bird hits. As of October, 241 bird-hit cases were reported. Read the rest of this entry »

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SALEM: After a 16-year wait, the airport at Salem in western Tamil Nadu became operational again, with Kingfisher Airlines kicking off its Chennai-Salem services on Sunday. Puducherry is the only airport that does not have commercial services in the southern region. Read the rest of this entry »

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Mumbai: A Kingfisher Airlines ATR-72 aircraft skidded off the runway on Tuesday at around 1630 hrs IST while landing at the Mumbai airport, officials said. The airlines has ordered a probe into the incident. The aircraft carried 42 passengers and four crew members, and there are no casualties, a spokesman for the airlines said on Tuesday evening. Read the rest of this entry »

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NEW DELHI: International travellers boarding from nine non-metro airports will have to fork out up to Rs 1,000 by way of a user development fee as the government looks to prop up the coffers of the Airports Authority of India (AAI). For domestic travellers, the fee could be around Rs 200 depending upon the kind of investment made by AAI to upgrade these airports. Read the rest of this entry »

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KOLKATA: After trying to fob off Indian officials and investigators all of Sunday night, one of the pilots of the United Arab Emirates air force aircraft detained at Kolkata airport since Sunday finally admitted to the plane carrying a consignment of weapons. The C-130 Hercules among the biggest transport aircraft in the world was on its way to Xiangyang, China, from UAEAF’s Western Air Command base in Abu Dhabi. Although the UAE government had the necessary clearances from Indian authorities for the flight to land in Kolkata, it had not informed that the aircraft would be carrying weapons. Read the rest of this entry »

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New Delhi: A woman and her five-year-old son, who arrived from the US on Thursday, have tested positive for swine flu or H1N1 virus in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu. The two travelled to India via Dubai and arrived in Chennai on May 28. The same day, they took a Kingfisher Airlines flight to Coimbatore. As the child was running a fever, they went to a hospital, where they were immediately admitted to an isolation facility; their blood samples were found to be H1N1 positive. Read the rest of this entry »

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Mumbai (PTI): Air India on Monday took off duty the two pilots of its Shanghai-bound flight from Mumbai following a near-collision with a Kolkata-bound Jet Airways flight at Mumbai Airport on Sunday but the pilot of the private airliner was given a clean chit. Read the rest of this entry »

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MUMBAI: A fire broke out on Monday at a Kingfisher airlines office at the domestic airport in Mumbai. Fire tenders have been pressed into service to douse the blaze, a Kingfisher spokesperson said. Read the rest of this entry »

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NEW DELHI: Demanding better pay package and medical benefits, nearly 300 contractual security and commercial workers of Air India boycotted work on Monday and staged a demonstration at the Indira Gandhi International Airport here. Read the rest of this entry »

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Mumbai: While the heist at the Mumbai airport wherein armed robbers sped with 145 kilogram of gold and silver coins continues to amaze security personnel and airport officials alike, there was one guard who tried to stop the robbers and eventually paid for it with his life. Read the rest of this entry »

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