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INDIA AVIATION STATISTICS
IndiGo, Air India have more women pilots than global averageIndiGo and Air India report significant female pilot representation, with 17.5% and 16% respectively, exceeding global averages. These figu...
India has 25,001 active pilots: Govt tells parliamentIndia currently has 25,001 active pilots. This includes 10,261 pilots holding an Airline Transport Pilot License. The Directorate General o...
IGRUA lost 4 trainer aircraft due to accidents in 8 years: GovernmentIndira Gandhi Rashtriya Uran Akademi faced trainer aircraft losses. Four planes crashed in eight years. Currently, IGRUA has thirteen train...
India's aviation has strong growth potential, holds only 4% of global traffic with 18% of world's population: JefferiesA new report suggests India's aviation sector has significant growth potential. India is the third-largest aviation market by passenger vol...
India to manufacture regional aircraft: Civil Aviation ministerIndia is set to locally develop a regional transport aircraft, likely to be a 90-seat model, by 2026. A technology license agreement for th...
India among top 5 developing countries in aviation emissions in 2019, study findsThe research team at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology also found that India's share in global CO2 emissions from domestic...
International air travel penetration remains low in India: CAPA"In terms of domestic traffic, we have reached number 3. But in terms of international (traffic), we are ranked at 18. In spite of being th...
It doesn’t look like economic slowdown, says minister Hardeep Singh PuriHe gave examples of growth in ridership of metro, ride sharing services to back his claim.
Government working on comprehensive plan for aviation sector: Suresh PrabhuPrabhu laid the foundation stone for Civil Aviation Research Organisation (CARO) being set up by Airports Authority of India with an expend...
PIL for including Madurai airport in the BASA agreementA PIL seeking inclusion of Madurai airport as a "point of call" in the Bilateral Air Service Agreement was admitted by the Madras High cour...
Jet Airways for trebling of seats between India and Abu DhabiWhile Air India asked for revising up the seats by 2,500 per week, IndiGo and SpiceJet asked for enhancing the quota by 4,000-5,000 seats p...
- Three security lapses at Delhi airports this year
Mumbai saw no security related lapses last year while two were reported in 2010 and one in 2009. In Kolkata, three cases were reported last...
- Brokers’ call: HSBC downgrades SpiceJet to 'neutral'
While it remains a potential upside risk at this stage, the considerable uncertainty around it warrants caution in the medium term.
- Govt to set up satellite accounting system for aviation
Civil aviation secretary Dr SNA Zaidi on Friday announced plans to set up a satellite accounting system to quantify the sector's contributi...
- CCI to review functioning of infra ministries every quarter
The Cabinet Committee on Infrastructure has decided to review the functioning of infrastructure ministries every quarter and suggest ways t...
- Infra index in doubt as ministries have weak data
Govt’s efforts to compile comprehensive statistics on the country’s infrastructure may come a cropper, with a number of administrative mini...
- Domestic air traffic grows 7.8% in 2009
There are signs of revival in the aviation sector with carriers finally emerging from two years of turbulence, as an improving economic sce...
- Private planes set for big flight
As the burgeoning spate of growth in air traffic continues, an explosive rise of 40 per cent is also projected in the number of privately-o...
- Foreign pilots sent home for 'poor English'
The government has sent home over 20 foreign pilots flying for Indian airline companies in the past year as their poor English posed safety...
- Indian women start rulling the sky
At 11%, the strength of Indian women pilots is twice the global average, which stands at 5.8%.