Air India Captain Zoya Agarwal will be commanding the inaugural flight AI176, which will cover the longest aerial distance between San Francisco and Bengaluru

Hardeep Singh Puri announced that only 30 flights per week will operate between India-UK as flights resume and this arrangement will continue till January 23.

Only 15 flights will be allowed per week till January 23.

In April, Air India had reduced its pilots' salary by up to 70 per cent to partially offset the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on its finances.

The crew had come in a flight from London on Sunday and secreted the gold in the overhead bin of the aircraft after seeing custom officers

On November 11, Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri had allowed Indian airlines to operate 70 per cent cap of pre-Covid levels.

These restrictions won’t apply to cargo operations and services approved by the DGCA.

Airport security, CISF, was called to control the scuffle which had triggered panic among other passengers at the airport

Satyendra Garg totalled up the sugar content in an airline breakfast recently, and the result was shocking!

IATA estimates that globally, airline sector may need a bailout package worth US$ 200 billion to sail through the Covid-19 induced crisis.

Sanjay Raina posted three pictures on Twitter on Thursday morning showing passengers standing extremely close to each other at Srinagar airport.

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.