The aviation ministry had in May made it mandatory for passengers to do web check-in so as to reduce touch points at the airport amid the coronavirus pandemic.

Dubai Civil Aviation Authority has suspended Air India Express flights from September 18 to October 2 for negligence of UAE government rules, reflecting the earlier incidents of passengers flying with COVID-positive certificates to Dubai.

The three-member probe team have apparently conflicting views as one member has cited technical glitch as the reason for the air accident while another has blamed pilots for the lapse.

The 46 experts of Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau are required to carry out the investigation of aircraft accidents. However, the panel investigating the Kerala plane crash has only one member from the AAIB.

Sophisticated technical operations of an airplane and resulting risks have exposed the aviation industry to a chain of slowdowns. This has cemented the way to aviation insurance.

GR Kathpalia, who had served as DG in DGCA for eight years, says the Investigator-in-Chief should definitely be a person with prior experience in the field of air crash investigation.

The Airports Authority of India (AAI) had in September 2019 recommended the Civil Aviation Ministry to privatise airports in Amritsar, Varanasi, Bhubaneswar, Indore, Raipur and Trichy.

The wreckage of the cockpit of the crashed Air India Express plane suggests that after the pilots landed on the runway in Calicut, they had attempted to take off again, perhaps realising they might not be able to stop the plane.

Independent safety experts have raised serious reservations on the competence of the investigator-in-charge and integrity of some of the members of the probe team.

According to the guidelines, all travellers would need to give an undertaking that they would undergo mandatory quarantine for 14 days.

The aviation regulator DGCA had on May 21 issued seven bands of ticket pricing with lower and upper fare limits. The first such band consists of flights that are of less than 40 minutes duration.

An air bubble is a bilateral arrangement with a set of regulations and restrictions in which the carriers of the two countries can operate international flights.

India resumed domestic passenger flights from May 25, after a gap of two months due to the coronavirus-induced lockdown.

The restriction will not be applicable to cargo operations and flights specially approved by the Director General of Civil Aviation.

'As we contemplate further opening up in response to demands, we are looking at the prospect of establishing individual bilateral bubbles, India-US, India-France, India-Germany, India-UK,' the aviation ministry said.

The pilot tweeted on Sunday that he has been suspended by AirAsia India 'for standing up for safe operations of an aircraft and its passengers.'

Aviation experts say that all-pet jet can only be a fanciful thought as it is practically not safe to allow a person to carry as many pets as he or she wants even if an aircraft is reserved by paying a hefty amount.

The Supreme Court has allowed the Centre and Air India to keep operating its scheduled flights with the middle seats filled for the next ten days.

Several passengers complained that their flights had been cancelled without prior notice from the airlines.

All scheduled commercial passenger flights were suspended in India since March 25 when the Centre imposed a lockdown to contain the virus.