Chennai Air Services

The telephone keeps ringing for appointments at the Naturals Salon in Chennai's Alwarpet as the outlet reopened today after two months, a day after the Tamil Nadu government permitted salons and grooming parlours to resume services without air conditioning. The state government also announced resumption of public transport and more employees at the...

A mega effort by the armed forces to felicitate healthcare workers and other corona warriors is underway across the country, complete with flypasts by fighter jets over state capitals, aerial flower shower and performances by military bands outside hospitals. In the evening, Navy ships docked at major ports, including Mumbai and Chennai, will be li...

Rajdhani Express trains connect Delhi with far off cities of India like Thiruvananthapuram in south, Dibrugarh in east, Goa in the west and Jammu Tawi in north among other major cities. Rajdhani Express trains are fully air conditioned trains, which offer meals on board and fast travel between cities and its services come under three different vari...

Flight operations in Chennai were suspended for at least five hours this morning due to thick smog and poor visibility on the runway as Tamil Nadu celebrates the beginning of Pongal festivities with 'Bhogi'. The celebrations started this morning with people setting bonfires on the streets with agricultural and household waste. The Air Quality Index...

Rail and flight services in Chennai were affected by heavy rain and strong winds that lashed the city and other coastal areas of Tamil Nadu due to cyclone Vardah, officials said.

Air services on the New Delhi-Chennai route were today affected due to rain in the national capital, airport officials said.

Making flying easier, state-run Air India has made available self check-in facility to its fliers at 26 domestic airports, including in Mumbai, Chennai, Delhi and Hyderabad, which allows passengers to skip check-in queues and head to a dedicated baggage drop counter.

"Let us not forget the heroes in the Army and the Air Force that work selflessly for CHENNAI ! SALUTE," Amitabh Bachchan wrote on Twitter. "Salute the armed forces for repeatedly coming to the reduce of nation, selflessly, whenever asked," Anushka Sharma wrote on Twitter

Train services and flights today resumed operations in the city after days of disruption due to torrential rains that left thousands of passengers stranded.

Heavy-lifter C-17 Globemaster and the C-130J Super Hercules, which helped in saving thousands of lives during Uttarakhand and Kashmir floods and the deadly Nepal earthquake early this year, again did a yeoman service in rain-hit Chennai where they ferried nearly 1,500 people to safety following the deluge.

With Chennai being virtually "cut off" for three days now in terms of air connectivity, the civil aviation ministry has put in a contingency plan to operate limited commercial flights today and tomorrow.

The fine particle pollution rates in Delhi are ten times higher than that of Chennai, which has ten times more cars but is coastally located, says a new study that suggests a combination of factors, not just vehicular or industrial pollutants, makes air pollution in Delhi deadly.

The martyrs of the Kargil conflict in 1999 were remembered in Chennai on the occasion of Vijay Diwas with the three services of the Indian Armed Forces paying respects to soldiers who laid down their lives defending the country in the war.

The aircraft (7 ATRs and 7 Air Bus 320) were grounded in various airports of Delhi, Chennai, Bengaluru and Kolkata due to operational problems and subsequent financial crisis faced by the airlines.

The no-frill Air Costa will initially fly to Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad and Vijayawada and later to some two-tier cities in the north.

The telephone keeps ringing for appointments at the Naturals Salon in Chennai's Alwarpet as the outlet reopened today after two months, a day after the Tamil Nadu government permitted salons and grooming parlours to resume services without air conditioning. The state government also announced resumption of public transport and more employees at the...

A mega effort by the armed forces to felicitate healthcare workers and other corona warriors is underway across the country, complete with flypasts by fighter jets over state capitals, aerial flower shower and performances by military bands outside hospitals. In the evening, Navy ships docked at major ports, including Mumbai and Chennai, will be li...

Rajdhani Express trains connect Delhi with far off cities of India like Thiruvananthapuram in south, Dibrugarh in east, Goa in the west and Jammu Tawi in north among other major cities. Rajdhani Express trains are fully air conditioned trains, which offer meals on board and fast travel between cities and its services come under three different vari...

Flight operations in Chennai were suspended for at least five hours this morning due to thick smog and poor visibility on the runway as Tamil Nadu celebrates the beginning of Pongal festivities with 'Bhogi'. The celebrations started this morning with people setting bonfires on the streets with agricultural and household waste. The Air Quality Index...

Rail and flight services in Chennai were affected by heavy rain and strong winds that lashed the city and other coastal areas of Tamil Nadu due to cyclone Vardah, officials said.

Air services on the New Delhi-Chennai route were today affected due to rain in the national capital, airport officials said.

Making flying easier, state-run Air India has made available self check-in facility to its fliers at 26 domestic airports, including in Mumbai, Chennai, Delhi and Hyderabad, which allows passengers to skip check-in queues and head to a dedicated baggage drop counter.

"Let us not forget the heroes in the Army and the Air Force that work selflessly for CHENNAI ! SALUTE," Amitabh Bachchan wrote on Twitter. "Salute the armed forces for repeatedly coming to the reduce of nation, selflessly, whenever asked," Anushka Sharma wrote on Twitter

Train services and flights today resumed operations in the city after days of disruption due to torrential rains that left thousands of passengers stranded.

Heavy-lifter C-17 Globemaster and the C-130J Super Hercules, which helped in saving thousands of lives during Uttarakhand and Kashmir floods and the deadly Nepal earthquake early this year, again did a yeoman service in rain-hit Chennai where they ferried nearly 1,500 people to safety following the deluge.

With Chennai being virtually "cut off" for three days now in terms of air connectivity, the civil aviation ministry has put in a contingency plan to operate limited commercial flights today and tomorrow.

The fine particle pollution rates in Delhi are ten times higher than that of Chennai, which has ten times more cars but is coastally located, says a new study that suggests a combination of factors, not just vehicular or industrial pollutants, makes air pollution in Delhi deadly.

The martyrs of the Kargil conflict in 1999 were remembered in Chennai on the occasion of Vijay Diwas with the three services of the Indian Armed Forces paying respects to soldiers who laid down their lives defending the country in the war.

The aircraft (7 ATRs and 7 Air Bus 320) were grounded in various airports of Delhi, Chennai, Bengaluru and Kolkata due to operational problems and subsequent financial crisis faced by the airlines.

The no-frill Air Costa will initially fly to Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad and Vijayawada and later to some two-tier cities in the north.