Currently, the airline has about 13,000 employees.

Taxes on ATF in India are among world's highest, and are seen as key reason for mounting losses of airlines.

Inter-ministerial group to meet on Thursday to finalise model concession pact.

If the drop in sales over the past two years is anything to go by, India's dream of putting seven million electric vehicles on road by the end of this decade has come a cropper.

The company has dismissed 194 cabin crew and 11 pilots over past year for unauthorised absence and such reasons.

Get ready to walk into an airport minutes before a flight, check in your own luggage, walk on to the tarmac to board a plane.

The airline has launched a series of discount offers since January this year.

Operators developing greenfield airports (built from scratch on undeveloped land) are likely to face increased competition, with the Ministry of Civil Aviation considering tweaking the norms to allow such airports to be developed within 150-km radii of existing ones.

The Bombay High Court has directed four office-bearers of the Aviation Industry Employees' Guild to resume duties by July 7, in a move that supports Air India's drive against absenteeism.

Such direct import was formally allowed in February 2012 but the aviation companies lack the infrastructure to do so.

The airlines in their representation had said that pilots had to be spared for the renewal procedure, which took a lot of time.

The MoU is a separate agreement entered into with the ministry that is more broad-based.

Sobha Puravankara is yet to explain to the safety lapses found by the DGCA.

The Boeing website lists the price of a Boeing 737-800 aircraft at $90.5 million.

During the checks on the Cessna aircraft registered with Business Jets India, the DGCA found that the pilots in command did not have necessary training certificates.

BAOA says the recent downgrade of India by the America's FAA was triggered primarily by a shortage of qualified staff for conducting safety and airworthiness inspections of aircraft.

Prabhat Kumar, who has been appointed as the DGCA chief three months ago, is taking steps to ensure safety of passengers.

Small aircraft operators want better infra at regional airports.

DGCA considers this in wake of Malaysian tragedy; no rules to gauge mental state now.

Apollo and Cooper are yet to make the customary rounds of courts to settle termination charges and break-up fees, but the mood already is buoyant among institutional investors who had red-flagged the highly leveraged transaction agreed upon by the Indian company.