'India to become $40 billion space industry,' says Ram Mohan Naidu after launching country's first Super Pressure Balloon in VijayawadaIndia's first Super Pressure Balloon has been launched in Vijayawada. Union Civil Aviation Minister Ram Mohan Naidu called it a landmark mo...
Pilots warn delay in rest rules is putting flight safety at riskPilots' body ALPA has alerted the DGCA about risks from delayed flight duty rules. They warn that ongoing relaxations for airlines weaken s...
Domestic air traffic rises to 4.37 cr in March quarter; flight delays hit 1.21 lakh passengers last monthIn March this year, the air traffic inched up to 1.44 crore from 1.41 crore in February, but was lower than the 1.45 crore recorded in Marc...
Families of AI171 crash victims seek release of black box data, write to PM ModiTen months after a tragic Air India crash, families of victims have written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi. They are requesting the releas...
DGCA-approved flying training organisations issue 2,364 student pilot licences in 2025Flying training organisations in India have issued over 9,600 student pilot licences in the last five years. The year 2024 recorded the hig...
Indigo flight cancellations/delays affected 76,000 passengers in Sep: DGCA dataOver 76,000 passengers were affected by flight cancellations or delays of more than two hours by IndiGo and Air India in September, accordi...
Air traffic in India jumps 42.85% in January-June 2023: DGCAAccording to the DGCA, data domestic airlines registered an annual growth of 32.92 per cent and monthly growth of 18.78 per cent.
1.06 crore domestic passengers travelled in March; around 38% more than February: DGCAThe passenger load factors -- which means occupancy rates -- were above 80 percent for all Indian private carriers in March, the Directorat...
Domestic air passenger traffic fell by 33% in March: DGCAAccording to the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) data, passenger load factors of all airlines in India decreased significantly...
Domestic air passenger traffic increased by 2.2 per cent in January: DGCAThe passenger load factors of Air India, SpiceJet, GoAir, IndiGo, AirAsia India declined in January 2020 as compared to December last year,...
DGCA starts training schools audit after more accidentsAccording to DGCA data, three reasons have been blamed for accidents at flying training institutes in the past four years. Data showed oper...
Domestic air passenger traffic grows by just 3.74% in 2019 compared to 18.6% in 2018: DGCACommenting on the 2019 data, a senior official of the Directorate General of Civil Aviation said, "A bit disappointing. In 2019, we faced h...
Domestic air passenger traffic grows by 3.98 per cent in OctoberThe domestic air traffic last month consisted of 12.31 million passengers compared to 11.84 million passengers in the same month last year,...
DGCA to meet airlines ahead of ICAO auditThe International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) is set to carry out a safety oversight audit of the Directorate General of Civil Aviat...
Air safety violations skyrocketed last year: DGCAThe data from India’s civil aviation regulator showed that it had taken 275 enforcement actions in 2015, which jumped to 422 in 2016.
SpiceJet tops on-time performance in FebruaryThe airline notched an on-time performance score of 79.9 per cent across the Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, and Hyderabad, according to DGCA dat...
Domestic airlines carried lesser travellers last year than 2011: DGCA dataLesser number of passengers travelled by Indian domestic air carriers last year as compared to 2011, according to DGCA data.