Air India

The talk of privatising Air India brings up an old question about India's airline business: how many airlines can the Indian market support? Or, more accurately, how many airlines can a route support? The same question can be asked of the global aviation business also. That is why we have bilateral ...

The flight – Air India flight 139 – took off to the South, avoiding Pakistani airspace in an ever-contentious region of the nation's skies, before continuing east over the Arabian sea before finally making landfall over eastern Oman. Not even an hour later, the flight, up to this point just a run-of-the-mill inaugural ...

Warning that he would be following the Air India privatisation deal very closely, Subramanian Swamy said he would file a criminal complaint and take it to court if ... New Delhi: BJP leader Subramanian Swamy on Saturday hit out at the central government led by his party over its plans to privatise Air India.

Abu Dhabi: A delayed Air India Express flight caused a lot of inconvenience to passengers flying from Abu Dhabi to Thiruvananthapuram in the South Indian state of Kerala. The flight scheduled to depart at 11.55pm on Friday was finally rescheduled to 9.10pm on Saturday after a failed attempt to depart at ...

Budget carrier IndiGo will be able to bid solo for Air India's 76% stake, while other domestic airlines will have to form a consortium to meet the net worth criteria stipulated by the government. The airlines bidding as part of a consortium will also be restricted to owning 51% in the partnership. This means such ...

TEL AVIV — The Israeli government has hailed Air India's new nonstop service from New Delhi to Tel Aviv as a historic breakthrough — the Indian carrier is the first commercial airline to take a geopolitical shortcut through Saudi Arabian airspace. But Israel's national airline, El Al, still has to take the long ...

While the civil aviation ministry remains tight-lipped about divestment in the Air India group, media speculation continues to be rampant with all kinds of theories being floated. On Thursday, there were reports that the government was thinking in terms of conducting the strategic sale of its stake in the airline ...

In its revised draft report on the airline's proposed disinvestment, the panel noted that the turnaround period and financial restructuring plan (FRP) was for a period of 10 years, from 2012 to 2022, and Air India had shown "an overall improvement in various parameters and every indication is that it is coming ...

Overflying Saudi Arabia will considerably shorten flight times between Israel and India. The maiden flight is due to leave New Delhi at 6 P.M. Indian time Thursday and arrive at Ben-Gurion Airport at 9:45 P.M. Israel time, according to the Air India website. Earlier this month the company said it planned to fly ...

The Air India Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner entered Saudi airspace at around 1645 GMT and overflew the kingdom at 40,000 feet for about three hours, coming within 60 km (37 miles) of the capital Riyadh, according to the Flightradar monitoring app. It then crossed over Jordan and the occupied West Bank into ...

The Government of India is leaving no stone unturned to expedite the process of disinvestment of debt-laden national carrier Air India. Few months ago, in a significant move, the government had relaxed the FDI (foreign direct investment) norm, allowing foreign investment up to 49 percent in Air India ...

A glance at its performance shows that the government's plan to sell its stake in the carrier may just be what the airline needs. Take on-time performance, for instance. This parameter measures the timeliness of the departure and arrival of Indian flights. Not surprisingly, Air India falls woefully short. Among all ...