Aviation

Overseas Citizen of India (OCI) card holders and foreign nationals can visit India for any purpose, except on tourist visa, the government said today as it eased visa and travel restrictions imposed amid the coronavirus pandemic. In a big move to get air travel back on track, the government has restored the validity of all existing visas, nearly eight months after...

Airlines face a long, hard winter after a much hoped-for rebound from the coronavirus crisis failed to materialise, prompting savage cost cutting programmes and fresh calls for government support. "We are in a race against time. The key thing is to have the cash... we need to move quickly, very quickly," said Stephane Albernhe, managing partner at Archery Strategy Consulting. Airline...

Creditors to Jet Airways have approved a resolution plan which will give country's oldest private carrier a new lease of life, the airline said in a regulatory filing on Saturday. The resolution plan submitted by a consortium of London-based Kalrock Capital and UAE-based businessmen Murari Lal Jalan was approved on Saturday, the filing said, while not revealing other details of...

Five people were killed after a tourist plane and a microlight aircraft collided in western France on Saturday, the local government said. The small microlight carrying two people collided with a DA40 tourist plane with three people onboard around 4:30pm (1430 GMT) in Loches in the Indre-et-Loire department, local government official Nadia Seghier told AFP. "(The microlight) landed on the fence...

India successfully test-fired the "Rudram" Anti-Radiation Missile, developed by Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), from a Sukhoi-30 fighter aircraft off the east coast today. Defence Minister Rajnath Singh took to Twitter to congratulate DRDO and other stakeholders for the test's success. "The New Generation Anti-Radiation Missile (Rudram-1) which is India's first indigenous anti-radiation missile developed by DRDO for Indian Air...

The Indian Air Force is celebrating its 88th anniversary today when it will showcase it prowess and put its mainstream fighter jets on display. A key highlight this year is the newly-inducted Rafale fighter aircraft that will be featured. A grand parade-cum-investiture ceremony is being held at the Air Force Station at Hindon near Delhi. Prime Minister Narendra Modi extended greetings...

India has been successfully fighting coronavirus with the help of COVID Warriors. IAF has been contributing towards the national effort to contain corona by supporting mobility of men and material both at International and Domestic level. More than 600 tons of medical supplies and large number of people have been airlifted including doctors, para-medics and equipment for setting up...

The country's aviation industry declined 66 per cent in September, according to investment information agency ICRA. However, on a sequential basis (compared to the previous month), it grew 37 per cent to 39 lakh passengers in September, indicating a recovery. Capacity deployment in September was 46 per cent compared to the corresponding period last year, a significant increase compared to 33...

India successfully flight-tested the Supersonic Missile Assisted Release of Torpedo (SMART) from Wheeler Island off the coast of Odisha on Monday. All mission objectives, including missile flight upto the range and altitude, separation of the nose cone, the release of Torpedo and deployment of Velocity Reduction Mechanism (VRM), were met perfectly in the flight test. Defence Minister Rajnath Singh congratulated the...

Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri Saturday said domestic passenger traffic could reach the pre-COVID level by the end of current year. He said the daily domestic traffic has reached 1.76 lakh passengers from 30,000 passengers when the civil aviation operations resumed on May 25 following a two-month gap due to the pandemic. "On May 25, we resumed civil aviation operations...