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Navi Mumbai International Airport (PTI) NEW DELHI: The greenfield Navi Mumbai International Airport (NMIA) became operational on Thursday, nearly three decades after it was conceived to ease congestion at Mumbai’s primary airport.An IndiGo Airbus A320 from Bengaluru made a landing at 8 am and was welcomed with a traditional water cannon salute, marking the start of commercial flight operations. The...

Kolkata: On Tuesday, operations at the Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport returned to the new normal for the first time since the Dec 3 meltdown, with no flight cancellations except for those that IndiGo Airlines had dropped from its network in advance. Nearly all operations were on time, and passenger movement through the airport was smooth.The overall scene at the airport among flyers,...

IndiGo CEO Pieter Elbers (File photo) NEW DELHI: IndiGo CEO Pieter Elbers on Tuesday said the airline was "back on its feet" with stable operations in the backdrop of the recent crisis that saw widespread disruption across country's aviation network.Elbers said lakhs of customers have received their full refunds, and we continue to do so on a daily basis. As IndiGo Spirals Into Crisis, PM Modi Stresses...

KOLKATA: IndiGo Airlines pilots have alleged that the flight cancellation and delay crisis that brought India’s aviation sector to a standstill was engineered to undermine the implementation of new safety norms and pressure govt into putting the revised Flight Duty Time Limitation (FDTL) rules in abeyance.They questioned how a shortage of just 65 captains and 59 co-pilots following the rollout of...

NEW DELHI: Domestic market leader IndiGo will levy a distance-based "fuel charge" ranging from Rs 300 to Rs 1,000 on all its flights due to increase in aviation turbine fuel (ATF) prices. This comes into effect from today. While comments were sought from other airlines, SpiceJet said it will levy a fuel charge without giving details.Other airlines are also likely to follow suit as the costing pressure...

A Swedish national, 63, was arrested in Mumbai on Thursday for allegedly molesting a 24-year-old cabin crew member on board a four-hour IndiGo flight from Bangkok. Klas Erik Harald Jonas Westberg, who was drunk at the time of the incident, also assaulted another flyer. Police filed a chargesheet using the accounts of three witnesses (all cabin crew). Westberg was subsequently released on payment of Rs...