Domestic air travellers should carry only one handbag: CISF

TBM Staff - Mumbai Saturday, 22 January 2022, 9:11 AM

Domestic air passengers should be allowed to carry only one baggage in the cabin of the aircraft subject to certain exemptions, the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) has told the civil aviation security agency BCAS. Citing issues of congestion at pre-embarkation security checkpoints at Continue Reading

ICRA moderates FY22 domestic traffic recovery estimates to 52% of pre-Covid level

TBM Staff - Mumbai Thursday, 20 January 2022, 3:17 PM

The easing of restrictions by state governments, healthy pace of vaccination and dip in Covid-19 infections had resulted in healthy sequential domestic passenger traffic growth during June 2021 – December 2021 with the same reaching ~22 million in December 2021 (highest since the start of pandemic in March 2020) and ~88% of pre-pandemic levels (December […]Continue Reading

Vikram Dev Dutt is the new Air India Chief

TBM Staff - Mumbai Thursday, 20 January 2022, 11:39 AM

Senior bureaucrat Vikram Dev Dutt has been appointed as the Chairman and Managing Director of Air India Ltd as part of a senior-level bureaucratic reshuffle effected by the Centre on Tuesday. Dutt is a 1993-batch IAS officer of AGMUT (Arunachal Pradesh, Goa, Mizoram and Union Territory) cadre. He has been appointed as the Air India […]Continue Reading

Air India delays US flights for second consecutive day amid 5G rollout concerns

TBM Staff - Mumbai Thursday, 20 January 2022, 10:39 AM

For the second day in a row, Air India cancelled most of its flights on the India-US routes over safety concerns pertaining to the 5G communications rollout in the US and its possible hazardous effect on aircraft navigation systems. Six return flights—three of which were scheduled to depart India for the US Thursday—were cancelled, said […]Continue Reading

Agartala airport to operate flights from Bangkok, and Bangladesh cities

TBM Staff - Hyderabad Tuesday, 18 January 2022, 11:53 AM

The Airports Authority of India recently announced that Agartala’s Maharaja Bir Bikram Airport (MBB) will be operating flights to Bangkok through Guwahati, and Chittagong and Dhaka, Bangladesh, in the future. Located 20 km north of Tripura, the airport is the second busiest in the northwestern region of India. This means that the MBB airport is […]Continue Reading

Ahmedabad airport to remain shut for 9 hours daily till May 31 this year

TBM Staff - Mumbai Monday, 17 January 2022, 5:54 PM

According to a HT report, a part of Ahmedabad’s Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport will be closed for nine hours every day from today onwards due to planned ‘recarpeting work’ on the runway. At least 52 flights arriving and departing from the airport will be rescheduled during the entire duration. As per the airport officials, […]Continue Reading