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India’s aviation boom has become a shorthand for its economic momentum. Passenger numbers are rising sharply, airports are expanding, and domestic airlines have placed some of the largest aircraft orders globally.
India’s aviation boom has become a shorthand for its economic momentum. Passenger numbers are rising sharply, airports are expanding, and domestic airlines have placed some of the largest aircraft orders globally.
Domestic carriers on Wednesday cancelled or delayed several flights to and from Jammu and Kashmir, Punjab, Rajasthan, and Himachal Pradesh after the Indian Army successfully executed ‘Operation Sindoor’, hitting nine high-value terror targets deep inside Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK).
With the immediate closure of Pakistan’s airspace for India, domestic airlines will need to take a longer route, resulting in higher fuel burn and possibly increased airfares
The South Korean government said on Monday that it plans to conduct a safety inspection of all Boeing 737-800 aircraft operated by domestic airlines following a Jeju Air Co. plane crash that claimed 179 lives the previous day.
Based on the traffic data provided by different domestic airlines, the passenger count reached an impressive milestone of 636.07 lakh during January-May 2023.
This makes the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport the first in the country to introduce the latest technology, proposed by the Bureau of Civil Aviation Security (BCAS).
Domestic air passenger traffic rose to 1.07 crore in March 2018 — up 28.03 per cent — from 1.15 crore…
