Constructed on elevated terrains and mostly having little space for last minute maneuver, tabletop runways at times pose challenges for pilots while landing their aircraft. IMAGE: Security......
IMAGE: An AN-32 aircraft of 43 Sqn carries out a successful landing, at Pakyong airfield in Pakyong, on Wednesday. This is the first landing by an AN-32 class of aircraft at the airfield, which is......
Dedicating Sikkim's first airport at Pakyong to the nation, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Monday his government is committed to make the Northeast an 'engine of India's growth story' and......
Prime Minister Narendra Modi turned photographer for a day! The PM, who is in Sikkim to inaugurate the Pakyong Airport, the state’s first airport, on Monday, shared some beautiful pictures......
'The Himalayan people may not represent a large or politically influential section of the population, but India's security depends on them.''Let us hope Sikkim remains a beacon of stability,' says......
Going beyond incremental growth, India has attained the fastest growth in highways building at 27 km a day and is all set for a quantum leap in transport infrastructure be it railways, waterways,......
UDAN demonstrates that good policy-making can fulfill important public requirements without requiring budgetary support, says MoS for civil aviation Jayant Sinha. IMAGE: An ATR aircraft landing on......
India remained the world's fastest growing domestic aviation market with 51 straight months of doubled-digit traffic growth but the woes of passengers as well as carriers manifested in myriad......
The Rs 16,000-crore greenfield Navi Mumbai international airport project on Monday moved a step closer to reality a decade after it was cleared, with GVK Group bagging the financial bid to build......
First and business class air travellers would find flying costlier from the next fiscal with an almost 2 per cent hike in service tax rate proposed in the general budget, which also earmarked......