Air India Express plans to add 4 Boeing 737 to keep up with rising demand
Tata Group-owned international budget airline Air India Express may add four Boeing 737 planes to its fleet of 24 aircraft by this year-end to meet…
Category: Aircrafts
Jet Airways requests DGCA to ask SpiceJet to take down their livery from its aircraft
Jet Airways has asked the aviation regulator DGCA to direct SpiceJet to remove its livery from the budget carrier’s aircraft as it misleads the public…
Vietjet to connect the coastal city of Da Nang with 5 Indian cities
Vietnamese airline Vietjet will connect its coastal city Da Nang with five cities as it looks to boost its presence in the largest country of…
India offers to set up production facilities for LCA Tejas and helicopters in Egypt
India has offered to set up production facilities for the manufacturing of light combat aircraft (LCA) as well as helicopters in Egypt as it pursues…
ONGC Sikorsky S-76D helicopter makes emergency landing in the Arabian Sea; 4 people dead
A helicopter carrying seven passengers and two pilots today made an emergency landing in the Arabian Sea near the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Limited…
Boeing chose Tata Aerospace as its “Supplier of the Year”
Tata Aerospace & Defence was recognised on Friday, June 24 by The Boeing Company (Boeing) with the coveted award of “Supplier of the Year.” The Indian company was…
Jet Airways places Airbus in the lead for USD 5.5 billion aircraft order
Airbus SE has emerged as the front-runner to win an order for as many as 50 aircraft worth up to USD 5.5 billion from Jet…
Urban air mobility | Advanced air mobility- history, market forecasts and myths debunked
By definition, Urban Air Mobility envisions a safe and efficient aviation transportation system that will use highly automated aircraft, and operate and transport passengers or…
Vistara plans to expand international operations as air travel demand picks up
Even as a potential merger with Air India is being considered, Vistara is charting its plans to expand international operations. The airline plans to increase…
2 SpiceJet flights abort take-off following fuselage door warnings
Fuselage door warnings lit up on two separate Spicejet planes while taking off on Friday, June 24 and Saturday, June 25, forcing the aircraft to abandon their journeys and…
Qatar Airways accuses Airbus of acting like a “bully” over ‘peeling paint’; files USD 1 billion lawsuit
The head of Qatar Airways on Tuesday, June 21 accused plane-maker Airbus of acting like a “bully” as their billion-dollar dispute over peeling paint looked…
The race to zero-emission air travel has a new player on the block
In what can be termed a further boost to ever-expanding technology in sustainable zero-emission air travel, Hydroplane Ltd. has announced that it is working on…
PIL filed in Delhi HC to change call sign “VT” on Indian aircraft as it’s a ‘symbol of slavery’
The registration mark on all the Indian aircraft starts with the call sign VT, which stands for “Victorian Territory and Viceroy Territory,” a relic of the…
Rolls Royce unveils Turbogenerator Technology for hybrid-electric propulsion. Here’s what’s new
Rolls Royce has now announced the development of turbogenerator technology, which includes a new small engine designed for hybrid-electric applications. Touted to expand the range…
IAF’s Make In India fighter jet project takes wings, around 100 aircraft to be built at home
In a most important boost to the Make in India initiative, the Indian Air Force (IAF) plans to construct around one hundred advanced fighter jets…
Airbus unveils new retrofittable touchless lavatory for A320 and A330ceo family
Airbus has partnered with Diehl Aviation to offer a touchless toilet retrofit option for its A320 and A330ceo aircraft, which was unveiled recently at the Aircraft Interiors…
Akasa Air plans to launch domestically by July end and internationally by 2023 end
Billionaire investor Rakesh Jhunjhunwala-promoted Akasa Air on Tuesday, June 21 received its first plane from American aerospace company Boeing. Boeing’s 737 Max aircraft, which flew…
India: Top contender for Malaysia’s fighter jet order
India has emerged as the top contender for a Malaysian requirement of Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) with a package deal that would include maintenance and…
Testing for ‘Micro Turbomachine’ a joint innovation project between IIT Madras and GE Aviation begins at NAL
The locally designed and developed aviation high-speed ‘Micro Turbomachine’ by IIT Madras and GE Aviation (GE) under a joint innovation program, which started in 2016,…
Maeve 01 – touted to be the world’s first all-electric commuter aircraft, secures million-dollar funding. Here’s what we know
According to a study conducted by NASA last year, powering aircraft using electric batteries would result in considerable fuel savings as an electric motor uses…