Air India Boeing 777 with GE engines (Photo: Air India)
NEW DELHI: Air India’s Boeing 777s the backbone of the Maharaja’s long and ultra long haul nonstops to North America have not been impacted by US aviation regulator’s directive to check B777s with Pratt & Whitney (PW) engines.
The AI B777s have General Electric (GE) engines. The Directorate General of Civil Aviation has, however, asked AI to be “more vigilant during ground checks (of these engines) as a precautionary measure.”
Last Saturday, a United Airlines’ B777 with PW engines operating from Denver to Honolulu had experienced a right engine failure shortly after takeoff.
NEW DELHI: Two plane crashes at table-top runways at Mangalore and Calicut could have been averted and 174 lives would have been saved had the Union government not shelved its 2008 decision to create engineered material assistance system (EMAS) at the and of runways at the two airports, an aviation expert told the Supreme Court on Tuesday.
A bench of Chief Justice S A Bobde and Justices A S Bopanna and V Ramasubramanian recalled the terrible sights of air crashes, first at Mangalore in 2010 and then in Calicut last year where the Vande Bharat Mission flight from Dubai crashed killing 16 passengers including the two pilots.
In the wake of a new strain of coronavirus infection, the civil aviation regulator Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) on earlier extended the suspension of all international flight operations in the country till 28 February, 2021
DGCA has increased the minimum fare on all seven sectors by 10-12 percent and raised the limit on maximum fare by around 30 percent, as per the government order.
The first price band consists of flights that are of less than 40 minutes. The lower limit for the first band is now increased from Rs 2,000 to Rs 2,200, while the upper limit in this band is set at Rs 7,800, which was Rs 6,000 earlier