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A timeline of how things went from bad to worse for Jet AirwaysThis post was updated on April 17.
Updated July 20, 20221 min read
This post was updated on April 17.
India’s surging aviation growth has a flip side—its airports are overwhelmed.
India’s airlines can continue to fly their A320neo aircraft and even take new deliveries of the model from Airbus. This is despite some of the aircraft, flying on engines made by the US-based Pratt and Whitney (P&W), being snag-prone.
India’s embattled airlines, reeling under mounting debt and piling losses, have now been called out by the country’s lawmakers for shoddy services.
The year 2018 was one roller-coaster ride for India in terms of fuel prices: After hitting a lifetime peak in October, they seem to have cooled off to levels seen at the beginning of the year.
In November this year, IndiGo, India’s largest airline by market share, decided to charge passengers for every seat reserved during web check-ins. The charges ranged from Rs100 for a middle seat in the last row to over Rs800 for extra-legroom spots in the first.
An anxious Indian aviation regulator has sought simulator training in potential exigencies for pilots flying Boeing’s 737 Max 8 aircraft.
The Indian government won’t bail out embattled Jet Airways, the country’s second-largest airline by market share.
Pilots of India’s national carrier Air India are inviting unwanted publicity for the financially beleaguered airline.
As if rising fuel prices and engine troubles weren’t enough, Indian aviation has a fresh problem to deal with: aircraft safety.
It’s a happy Diwali for India on the fuel-price front.
Many Indians are giving the traditional diyas and vibrant rangolis a miss this Diwali, the festival of lights.
An entire generation that grew up in the 1990s would remember going to school either in a school bus or pooled in an eight-seater Maruti Omni. The vehicle, with its two sliding doors, was also the favourite of the clichéd Bollywood kidnapper.
The crash of the Indonesian low-cost carrier Lion Air’s aircraft on Oct. 29 has once again put the spotlight on global aviation safety.
A toxic cocktail of macroeconomic factors and a possible over-dependence on sales to cab aggregators has hit the bottom line of India’s biggest carmaker.
Indian aviation’s last man standing has also fallen.
After months of steep ascent, retail fuel prices in India have finally begun to head south.
India’s turbulent aviation sector may be entering a long-pending phase of consolidation.
A former journalist may finally have the solution for India’s twin-problems of mobility and pollution.
After blowing hot and cold on bitcoin, the Indian government is considering bringing out its own cryptocurrency.
A deadly epidemic may be wiping out the world’s last few Asiatic lions.
Among the many things at stake at beleaguered private Indian airline Jet Airways is the legacy of its promoter, Naresh Goyal.
Watching the debt crisis unfold at Infrastructure Leasing & Financial Services (IL&FS), one can’t escape a sense of déjà vu.
Indian passenger-vehicle makers are finally proving they can cut the mustard when it comes to global standards for road safety. A UK-based safety certification body last week recognised homegrown automobile companies that have gone the extra mile to build safe cars for Indian roads.