Captain Smit Machchhar, the Indian pilot who helped prevent a flydubai passenger aircraft from crashing after his copilot attacked him in the cockpit, has described how he fought through severe injuries to
India currently has 25,001 active pilots below the age of 65 holding various flying licences, the government informed Lok Sabha, reflecting the scale of the country’s expanding civil aviation sector. In a
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Half a century has passed since Concorde lifted off with paying passengers for the first time, yet the anniversary feels less like a celebration and more like a quiet admission of loss.
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Aviation leaders gathering in Singapore on Monday warned that persistent supply chain disruptions and rising geopolitical tensions are increasingly threatening the industry’s ability to meet surging demand, even as they reaffirmed commitments
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All human life can be found in an airport. ~ David Walliams Air Chief Marshal Harsha Abeywickrama, who served concurrently as Chairman of Airport and Aviation Services (Sri Lanka) Limited and as
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Airbus chief executive Guillaume Faury has issued a stark warning to staff that the aerospace giant must be prepared to adapt to a new era of geopolitical uncertainty, after the company suffered
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India’s aviation regulator has imposed a record fine of $2.45 million on IndiGo, issued warnings to top executives and ordered the removal of a senior operations official after widespread flight cancellations last
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IndiGo, which controls about two-thirds of India’s domestic market, suffered an unprecedented operational breakdown in early December after pilot shortages and software glitches overwhelmed its tightly managed schedules. Thousands of flights were
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Pakistan’s long-delayed push to privatize its national airline took a decisive step forward on Tuesday after stockbroker Arif Habib Consortium submitted the highest bid of $482 million to acquire a 75% stake
More by Our Business Affairs Editor The recent collapse in IndiGo’s operations, marked by thousands of cancellations and severe nationwide disruptions, has reopened a deeper debate within India’s aviation sector—whether the turmoil at
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The development of aviation has opened up the world in a way that no other single invention has done before. – Charles Lindbergh In 1996, the United Nations General Assembly proclaimed 7
More It was, as Bloomberg reported, “the straw that broke the highly-optimized camel’s back.” On the evening of Dec. 2, just three days before India’s largest airline would lose control of its operations
More by Our Correspondent in New Delhi In the cutthroat world of aviation, where margins are wafer-thin and operational missteps unforgiving, leadership is not just important—it is everything. And yet, in a stunning
More IndiGo has canceled all domestic flights departing from New Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport until midnight Friday, intensifying a wave of travel disruption that has stretched through the week. The airport operator
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China Eastern Airlines has inaugurated what it says is the world’s longest one-way commercial flight, a roughly 20,000-kilometer journey connecting Shanghai with Buenos Aires through a stopover in Auckland, according to information
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A growing number of commercial airline pilots are avoiding mental health treatment out of fear that acknowledging even minor or treatable conditions could lead to grounding and jeopardize their careers, according to
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