New Delhi, Feb 13 (IANS) Congress MP Shashi Tharoor has raised serious concerns over the Civil Aviation Ministry’s handling of passenger complaints, questioning the Union government’s claim that 97 per cent of grievances have been addressed. In a post on Thursday on social media platform X, Tharoor said the Ministry has failed to clearly explain what it means by “addressed” and whether complaints are actually resolved to the satisfaction of passengers or simply acknowledged.He added that while t…
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Ahmedabad, Feb 3 (IANS) Adani Defence & Aerospace Director Jeet Adani on Tuesday said that with Italian multinational Leonardo Helicopters, they will build an ecosystem on Indian soil that brings manufacturing, assembly, training, and world‑class support into one cohesive whole.More importantly, we will build confidence – “confidence that India’s helicopter capabilities will grow here, be sustained here, and be strengthened here for generations,” Jeet Adani said as the companies announ…
New Delhi, Jan 29 (IANS) As the World Bank ranks India among the top 5 countries globally in terms of private investment in infrastructure among low- and middle-income economies, infrastructure continues to be central to India’s growth strategy, with public capital expenditure following a sustained upward trajectory since FY15, the Economic Survey 2025-26 stated on Thursday.According to the Survey, this has been made possible by the institutionalisation of multimodal planning through PM GatiSh…
New Delhi/Hyderabad, Jan 28 (IANS) Asserting that India is becoming a major global aviation hub, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday urged investors from around the world to “join us as co-pilots on India’s flight to success”.The Prime Minister declared that the government is working on the next phase of the UDAN scheme to further strengthen regional and affordable air connectivity.In his video message at the inaugural of Wings India 2026, the civil aviation summit that began at Begumpet…
New Delhi, Jan 22 (IANS) The outlook on the Indian aviation industry is “stable,” driven by the anticipation of modest growth in domestic air passenger traffic in FY26, according to an ICRA report on Thursday.ICRA has revised its forecasts for the domestic air passenger traffic growth in FY26 to 0-3 per cent, reaching 165-170 million, lower than its previous expectations of 4-6 per cent on a YoY basis. This is attributed to cross-border escalations (that led to flight disruptions and cancell…
Beijing/New Delhi, Jan 3 (IANS) The aviation sector in China is facing a significant crisis with empty airports, suspended international routes, and mounting airline losses, according to a media report.The situation “has become a symbol of the country’s broader economic and political isolation” by the global community, the Ceylon News wire reported. It attributed the crisis to the mismanagement of domestic as well as foreign policies.“The eerie emptiness of China’s airports today is no…
New Delhi, Dec 28 (IANS) The 24×7 Passenger Assistance Control Room (PACR) set up in the Ministry of Civil Aviation has resolved more than 13,000 passenger grievances through focused monitoring and expedited interventions since this month, a top official said on Sunday. Expressing satisfaction over the working of the Ministry of Civil Aviation’s PACR Secretary, Samir Kumar Sinha, said that more than 500 call-based interventions have also been undertaken to directly assist passengers during oper…
New Delhi, Dec 24 (IANS) The government has granted initial approval to two new airlines to start operations, after the recent chaos in IndiGo operations, which stranded passengers for several days across the country and exposed the abuse of dominance by the largest domestic airline.The civil aviation ministry granted a “no-objection certificate” to regional airlines – Shankh Air, Al Hind Air and FlyExpress – this week, Union Minister Ram Mohan Naidu said in a post on X. He said that the governm…