Amid West Asia crisis, Cabinet okays Rs 10,000 crore support for domestic airlines towards ATF pricing
The move is aimed at easing pressure on OMCs and shielding them from losses due to rising ATF prices.
The move is aimed at easing pressure on OMCs and shielding them from losses due to rising ATF prices.
Flight services between Kolkata and several West Asian destinations began returning to normal from Saturday after nearly a week of disruptions triggered by the tense military situation in parts of the region.
"Despite temporary reprieve, failure to effectively plan for new aviation regulations is credit negative."
The ministry also took a serious note of the unusually high airfares being charged by certain airlines during the ongoing disruption.
Airlines across the United States cancelled hundreds of flights as the continuing government shutdown deepened strains on the nation’s air travel system.
However, the National Informatics Centre (NIC) network remained unaffected by the glitch, said Union Minister for Electronics and Information Technology Ashwini Vaishnaw.
Airlines in India on Friday reported that their systems across the network are impacted by an ongoing outage in Microsoft Azure.
Air India said on Monday that it has completed harmonising operating procedures across key functions for the four Tata Group airlines as a crucial step towards the merger.
Deputy Commissioner of Police (IGI Airport) Usha Rangnani said that at around 5 a.m., information was received regarding a paper found in the lavatory of an Indigo flight scheduled to depart for Varanasi, with the word 'bomb@5.30' written on it.
Merging two airlines into one is a task fraught with risk, as Air India and Indian Airlines learnt to their discomfiture more than a decade and a half ago when a merger was forced on them by then Civil Aviation Minister Praful Patel, overriding concerns voiced, including by this newspaper, that the scheme was hare-brained.
