40 pc of commercial pilot licenses in India issued to cadets trained in foreign countries: GovtThe minister, in a written reply, said the Airports Authority of India (AAI) had on September 25 last year come up with a liberalised flyin...
13 Dec, 2021, 05.40 PM IST
8 new flying training academies to be set up in 5 airports: GovtThe five airports -- Belagavi and Kalaburagi in Karnataka, Jalgaon in Maharashtra, Khajuraho in Madhya Pradesh and Lilabari in Assam -- hav...
02 Jun, 2021, 08.40 PM IST
AAI to develop Greenfield Airport in Arunachal Pradesh's Hollongi with estimated cost of Rs.650 croreThe project includes development work i.e. construction of airport pavements, air side work, terminal Building and city side works.
12 Oct, 2020, 07.03 PM IST
Airline passenger movement in North East India is growing with each passing month: Airport Authority of IndiaAirports mainly operational during this period included Guwahati, Agartala, Imphal, Dibrugarh, Silchar, Dimapur, Jorhat, Tezpur & Lilabari.
14 Sep, 2020, 09.13 PM IST
SpiceJet starts direct flight between Kolkata and Lilabari under UDAN schemeThe unserved market of Lilabari, located in the Lakhimpur district of Assam, was awarded to SpiceJet under the second phase of Ude Desh Ka ...
26 Dec, 2018, 10.25 PM IST
Rs 3400 crore for airports in North East: AAI chairman Guruprasad MahapatraThe airports in the region recorded a total passenger movement of 68.04 lakh in 2016-17 and registered a growth of 27.02 per cent over the ...
29 Jan, 2018, 10.05 PM IST
Air India plans northeast expansion, to inject more flightsAir India's Chairman and Managing Director Ashwani Lohani will visit three north-eastern states next month to review operations in the regi...
16 May, 2017, 06.02 PM IST
Air India to expand north-east operations with CMD to visit region next monthAI and its subsidiaries have 19 flights from Kolkata to the north-eastern states and there are flights from Guwahati to Imphal, Lilabari an...
15 May, 2017, 08.43 PM IST
Arunachal Governor calls for setting up minimum 3-4 airportsTo address the communication bottleneck particularly in air connectivity, Arunachal Pradesh Governor J P Rajkhowa approached the Union Civi...
03 Dec, 2015, 06.09 PM IST
Arunachal Governor calls for setting up minimum three to four airportsRajkhowa in his letter said that Arunachal is a very important strategic frontier state having international borders with Bhutan, China.
03 Dec, 2015, 05.04 PM IST
Government promises to consider setting up Arunachal Pradesh's first airportArunachal may finally have an airport with the Centre assuring CM Nabam Tuki of 'seriously pursuing' the long-standing demand.
28 Jun, 2015, 12.58 AM IST
Arunachal Pradesh CM Nabam Tuki demands more flights between New Delhi-LilabariNabam Tuki met Union Minister of State for Civil Aviation Mahesh Sharma and sought his support to improve the air connectivity scenario in ...
16 Jan, 2015, 05.43 PM IST
Connectivity in North East to improve after Alliance Air inducts second plane: Jitendra SinghAn MoU has already been signed for a period of two years between NEC and Alliance Air to provide connectivity to unconnected areas by air.
02 Jan, 2015, 08.36 PM IST
Air India subsidiary Alliance Air starts service to the airports in Assam and MeghalayaAlliance Air is the wholly owned subsidiary of Air India and the airline stopped services in these routes due to irregular payment of the v...
02 Aug, 2014, 01.57 PM IST
Rahul Gandhi to hold rally in ArunachalGandhi would arrive at Lilabari airport in Assam's North Lakhimpur district and would take a chartered chopper to Hapoli, party sources dis...
16 Mar, 2014, 03.10 PM IST
- Air India to restore Kolkata-Shillong service
Air India would restore service on the Kolkata-Shillong-Kolkata sector with effect from July 10, the airline said here today.
05 Jul, 2013, 07.44 PM IST
Air India threatens to stop operations to North East airportsThe NEC finances Alliance Air's operations in the crucial region each year through viability gap funding (VGF) under a MoU between the two ...
06 Dec, 2012, 05.01 PM IST