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The Federation of Indian Airlines had earlier mentioned that the private air carriers would not fly on Aug 18 if the government did not announce a rescue package to help increasing ongoing crisis which they claim has escalated their collective losses to over $2 billion.
 
But, the ...

Jet Airways, the private air carrier of India, will be launching its Mumbai to Riyadh flight on Aug 6.
 
"The airline will launch four services a week on the Mumbai-Riyadh sector - on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays," Jet said in a statement.
 
Riyadh is the ...

Uniglobe Travel, a travel management organization, on Wednesday launched a carbon offset programme in India that will allow air travellers to purchase carbon credits to reduce the environmental impact of their travel.
 
Uniglobe and CarbonNeutral Co, a global carbon management firm, has ...

Budget carrier SpiceJet on Tuesday reported net profits of Rs.263.42 million for the first quarter of this fiscal, against a loss of Rs.1.29 billion in the like quarter of 2008-09, despite some trying times for the aviation sector.
 
The company's total income also registered a 10.55% ...

Emirates Airlines, the national air carrier of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), has plans for increasing the number of its flights to Angola and South Africa by the end of this year. The company will organise promotional activities in both the countries ahead of the launch.
 
Flights to the ...

According to Boeing Co, Air India has not deferred or cancelled any of the orders it has placed.
 
"We have not received any such proposals from Air India so far. But Jet Airways has rescheduled the delivery of two Boeing-333 aircraft," Boeing India president Dinesh Keskar told ...

Jet Airways, one of the India’s private air carriers, is all set to launch the daily services on the Kochi-Sharjah route from Sep 1.This will be Jet's fourth daily flight to the Gulf from Kochi.
 
At present, Jet has daily services to Doha, Kuwait and Muscat from Kochi.
 
The ...

Kingfisher Airlines, owned by Vijay Mallya,  has to pay over Rs 950 crore to the government oil companies for the jet fuel bills. This information was given by the Petroleum minister Murli Deora, on Monday.
 
Kingfisher owed "Rs 37.36 crore to Indian Oil Corp, Rs 598.78 crore ...

Praful Patel, the Civil Aviation Minister, said on Tuesday that he would meet Prime Minister Manmohan Singh this week to discuss the appointment of independent directors to the board of Air India in a bid to revive the ailing national carrier.
 
"I will be discussing names of eminent ...

Kingfisher Airlines, the private player in air carriers, has plans for launching flights on 8 international routes in 2009.
 
"We have planned a roadmap for the next phase of international routes. We will start flying on the Mumbai-Hong Kong, Mumbai-Singapore sector by Sep 16," ...

Air India is eyeing a bailout package of Rs 10,000-15,000 crore from the Indian Government. Top aviation ministry officials and Air India chief Arvind Jadhav met Civil Aviation Minster Praful Patel on Tuesday to discuss possible remedies to bailout the Maharaja.
Air India is in urgent need of ...

State-run carrier Air India has targeted slashing annual salary costs by Rs.500 crore, it said here Monday. 
 
Air India has appointed a four-member committee to examine existing wage agreements, including flying allowances and productivity-linked incentives, signed with the unions ...