Civil Aviation

Civil aviation regulator Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) imposed a Rs 70 lakh fine on Air Vistara for not having operated the minimum number of mandated flights to underserved areas of the country's northeast region.

The Centre has requested the Tamil Nadu government to reduce the value added tax charged on aviation turbine fuel in line with the other states and to boost air connectivity, Union Minister of Civil Aviation Jyotiraditya M Scindia said on Saturday.

The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has ordered an inquiry after a passenger who was supposed to take an Indigo flight to Patna instead boarded another flight of the airline and landed at Udaipur - about 1400km away from his destination.

A Calicut-bound Air India Express flight from Abu Dhabi landed back at the airport as flames were detected in one of the engines soon after take-off, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation said on Friday.

Budget 2023: The allocation for the civil aviation ministry in the Union Budget has more than halved to Rs 3,113.36 crore for next financial year, especially due to a sharp reduction in the amount set aside for Air India Asset Holding Ltd.

The Directorate General of Civil Aviation or DGCA today said there was prompt response from Scoot with regard to many passengers missing its Amritsar-Singapore flight due to rescheduling of the departure timing on January 18.

Air India has been fined Rs 30 lakh and the licence of the pilot-in-charge of its New York-Delhi flight on which a drunk passenger peed on a woman has been suspended for three months by the aviation regulator Director General of Civil Aviation.

Air India has submitted its reply to the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) in the case where passenger Shankar Mishra urinated on a woman co-passenger onboard a New York-Delhi flight in November last year.

The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has ordered a probe into how a Singapore-bound flight took off hours ahead of schedule, leaving behind 35 passengers at the Amritsar airport.

BJP leader Tejasvi Surya opened the emergency exit of an IndiGo plane last month "by mistake" and apologised for it, Civil Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia said today.

The black box of the Yeti Airlines aircraft, which crashed a day ago with 72 people on board was handed over by the Nepal Army to Civil Aviation Authority officials today.

At least five Indians were on board the Yeti Airlines aircraft that crashed in Nepal's Pokhara this morning, the nation's Civil Aviation Authority has confirmed in a tweet.

Bengaluru-bound passengers at Delhi airport on Tuesday were stranded at an aerobridge for over an hour without water or information, prompting the Directorate General of Civil Aviation to issue a notice seeking a detailed report over the incident.

Go First Airline, under the scanner of the civil aviation regulator DGCA, has said it would offer one free ticket to each of the 50 passengers it forgot to board on a Bengaluru-Delhi flight.

Passengers onboard an Air Vistara flight operating from Delhi to Bhubaneswar had a narrow escape after a full emergency was declared due to hydraulic failure, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation said on Monday.

Civil aviation regulator Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) imposed a Rs 70 lakh fine on Air Vistara for not having operated the minimum number of mandated flights to underserved areas of the country's northeast region.

The Centre has requested the Tamil Nadu government to reduce the value added tax charged on aviation turbine fuel in line with the other states and to boost air connectivity, Union Minister of Civil Aviation Jyotiraditya M Scindia said on Saturday.

The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has ordered an inquiry after a passenger who was supposed to take an Indigo flight to Patna instead boarded another flight of the airline and landed at Udaipur - about 1400km away from his destination.

A Calicut-bound Air India Express flight from Abu Dhabi landed back at the airport as flames were detected in one of the engines soon after take-off, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation said on Friday.

Budget 2023: The allocation for the civil aviation ministry in the Union Budget has more than halved to Rs 3,113.36 crore for next financial year, especially due to a sharp reduction in the amount set aside for Air India Asset Holding Ltd.

The Directorate General of Civil Aviation or DGCA today said there was prompt response from Scoot with regard to many passengers missing its Amritsar-Singapore flight due to rescheduling of the departure timing on January 18.

Air India has been fined Rs 30 lakh and the licence of the pilot-in-charge of its New York-Delhi flight on which a drunk passenger peed on a woman has been suspended for three months by the aviation regulator Director General of Civil Aviation.

Air India has submitted its reply to the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) in the case where passenger Shankar Mishra urinated on a woman co-passenger onboard a New York-Delhi flight in November last year.

The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has ordered a probe into how a Singapore-bound flight took off hours ahead of schedule, leaving behind 35 passengers at the Amritsar airport.

BJP leader Tejasvi Surya opened the emergency exit of an IndiGo plane last month "by mistake" and apologised for it, Civil Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia said today.

The black box of the Yeti Airlines aircraft, which crashed a day ago with 72 people on board was handed over by the Nepal Army to Civil Aviation Authority officials today.

At least five Indians were on board the Yeti Airlines aircraft that crashed in Nepal's Pokhara this morning, the nation's Civil Aviation Authority has confirmed in a tweet.

Bengaluru-bound passengers at Delhi airport on Tuesday were stranded at an aerobridge for over an hour without water or information, prompting the Directorate General of Civil Aviation to issue a notice seeking a detailed report over the incident.

Go First Airline, under the scanner of the civil aviation regulator DGCA, has said it would offer one free ticket to each of the 50 passengers it forgot to board on a Bengaluru-Delhi flight.

Passengers onboard an Air Vistara flight operating from Delhi to Bhubaneswar had a narrow escape after a full emergency was declared due to hydraulic failure, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation said on Monday.