IndiGo and Air India Group plan to shift about a third of their international flights from Mumbai to Navi Mumbai between January and summer next year, breaking ranks with foreign carriers that oppose the move. IndiGo will transfer 12 daily departures, Business Standard reports. Taxi drivers will learn new routes.
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Navi Mumbai International Airport has added nine domestic destinations: Agatti via Goa-Mopa, Darbhanga, Guwahati, Jalgaon, Jodhpur, Ranchi, Bagdogra, Sindhudurg and Udaipur. The expansion is expected to support tourism and regional links, ET TravelWorld reports. The departures board is filling up.
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Akasa Air has crossed 200 daily departures as it adds flights from Delhi, Bengaluru and Kolkata and new connections from Jaipur and Udaipur. The airline says the changes give passengers more departure options across major and emerging markets, ET TravelWorld reports. The startup airline is now a fixture.
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Air India and Air India Express have extended the suspension of flights to Riyadh and Dammam until 7 November amid security concerns in the Middle East, with Jeddah flights cancelled until 31 October. Passengers can rebook for free or take a full refund.
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Akasa Air has inducted its 44th aircraft, a Boeing 737 MAX 8-200 registered VT-YBU, which arrived at Bengaluru's Kempegowda International Airport. It is the airline's thirteenth aircraft induction of calendar year 2026, Travel Daily Media reports. Boeing, at least, delivered this one.
Read more at traveldailymedia.com →Thiruvananthapuram International Airport will handle 644 weekly air traffic movements under its winter schedule, up from 620 in summer, with Riyadh added as a new destination. Weekly domestic movements rise 12% to 328, BusinessLine reports. Winter is the busier timetable.
Read more at BusinessLine →Air India Express is restoring direct flights between Chandigarh and Sharjah after a three-year gap as part of its winter schedule. The non-stop service will run four days a week, on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, Urban Acres reports. The gap years are over.
Read more at Urban Acres →Akasa Air launched a daily direct service between Visakhapatnam and New Delhi on 25 October using Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircraft, making it the third airline on the route. Flight QP 1842 leaves Delhi at 5.55 am, The Hindu reports. Alarm clocks are included.
Read more at The Hindu →Air India has introduced a multi-course fine dining service for Business Class passengers on long-haul and ultra long-haul flights, starting on routes to Heathrow, Gatwick and Birmingham. It plans to extend the service to other A350, 787-9 and 777-300 routes. The tray table has been promoted.
Read more at traveldailymedia.com →Two IndiGo flights bound for Varanasi, from Delhi and Hyderabad, were diverted to Lucknow on Sunday because of the Air Force Day aerial display at Namo Ghat marking the IAF's 94th anniversary. Both aircraft landed safely, BusinessLine reports. The air show had the airspace.
Read more at BusinessLine →A Chandigarh consumer commission has partly allowed a complaint against Air India, ruling that its failure to refund an admitted rescheduling amount of 31,440 rupees, despite saying the refund was being processed, amounted to deficiency in service, LiveLaw reports.
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Germany has approved daily Emirates flights between Dubai and Berlin Brandenburg, the airline's fifth German destination, after decades of lobbying. Its Boeing 777X fleet renewal remains delayed, and Emirates plans to reject its first ten to 11 aircraft, Simple Flying reports. Berlin moved faster than Boeing.
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Emirates is considering flights to Denver, Detroit and Philadelphia, president Tim Clark said at the Routes World conference, adding the list of markets goes on and on. There aren't many cities the airline cannot reach if it wants to, he said. Modesty was not on the list.
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Riyadh Air has moved some Boeing 787-9s to Al Qassim, 400 km northwest of the capital, to restart some flights after missile attacks on Riyadh's King Khalid International Airport killed 15 people and injured more than 300, Paddle Your Own Kanoo reports.
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A group of senior JetBlue creditors is working with PJT Partners and law firm Akin as the airline grapples with cash burn and high oil prices. Its 2 billion dollar notes due 2031 fell to 42 cents on the dollar, WSJ reports. This is rarely a good sign.
Read more at The Wall Street Journal →American Airlines has expanded its deal with Starlink to install satellite internet across its entire mainline fleet of more than 1,000 Airbus and Boeing aircraft, including long-haul planes. Installations are expected to begin in early 2027. The last refuge from email is closing.
Read more at travel.yahoo.com →Low-cost carrier Frontier Airlines will roll out a new first class from 5 March 2027 and install seat power outlets and Starlink wifi, with retrofits beginning this month, Simple Flying reports. The low-cost model now includes the expensive seats.
Read more at Simple Flying →Singapore Airlines is rolling out next-generation KrisWorld in-flight entertainment with 4K touchscreens, OLED screens on selected aircraft, spatial audio, noise-cancelling headphones, Bluetooth, a redesigned interface and more than 2,500 options, Asian Aviation reports. Most will still be scrolled past.
Read more at asianaviation.com →Air Canada launched nonstop flights from Toronto Pearson to Tenerife South on Sunday, the only nonstop service from Canada to the Canary Islands. Air Transat plans its own Canary Islands flights in December, and Montreal will get a service too. Canadian winter has found an exit.
Read more at Simple Flying →Air Canada is cutting several routes from its Toronto Pearson hub, including two to the US, even as it adds Oslo, Shannon and Nice next summer. Its US capacity has fallen by around 10% over two years amid diplomatic and trade tensions, Simple Flying reports.
Read more at Simple Flying →Condor CEO Peter Gerber said the German carrier had a strong summer and winter bookings are holding up, though the Middle East crisis has weakened demand for Gulf travel. He sees room to grow long-haul leisure flying with tour operators, Aviation Week reports.
Read more at aviationweek.com →Korean Air and Asiana Airlines said customer reservation data was exposed through Amadeus, a global reservation and ticketing provider, believed to involve unauthorised access with account login credentials, in a window from August 2023 to last month. Neither found evidence their own systems were breached, The Korea Times reports.
Read more at koreatimes.co.kr →El Al shares have surged 43.3% in three months, putting the airline on track to join the TA-35 index at 11.3 billion shekels. Chairman Amikam Ben-Zvi is set to get a package worth about 7 million shekels a year, Ynetnews reports.
Read more at ynetnews.com →A Global Work and Travel analysis of the US Department of Transportation's latest consumer report shows a wide gap between the most and least reliable US airlines in August, with Delta on top and one major carrier cancelling more than one in 16 flights this summer. Travellers noticed.
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Boeing has received FAA certification for the 737-10, the largest member of the 737 MAX family, clearing the way for customer deliveries in the coming months. The programme included nearly 1,000 test flights and more than 2,000 flight hours. Customers have been waiting, patiently.
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Allegiant Air has ordered six more Boeing 737-8s for delivery in 2028, exercising purchase options from a 2021 deal. That brings its firm orders under the agreement to 56, of which 22 have been delivered, with a combined list price above 720 million dollars. Options, for once, were exercised.
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The Airbus A350F has won 115 orders against 81 for Boeing's 777-8F, a turnaround in a market long dominated by Boeing's 747 and 777 freighters. The A350F completed its maiden flight on 29 September, Simple Flying reports. The orders arrived before the first flight.
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Akasa Air expects its first Boeing 737 MAX 10 in 2027 following the type's FAA certification on 20 October. Akasa has ordered 90 of the aircraft and Air India Express has committed to 10, Aviation A2Z reports. Certification was the easy part of the wait.
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More aircraft are being dismantled years or decades early because of a shortage of parts, especially engines, CNBC reports. One Airbus A320neo built for Spirit Airlines in 2022 was stripped for parts and crushed less than four years later. Parts have become the product.
Read more at CNBC →Airbus reports third-quarter results on 28 October. Demand signals are strong, but investors are focused on whether it can hand over enough aircraft by year-end after delivering 547 commercial jets in the first nine months, according to reports. December will be busy.
Read more at Ad Hoc News →KLM has taken delivery of its first Airbus A350-900, PH-ZNA, at Amsterdam Schiphol. When it enters service in a few weeks its first destination will be Toronto, followed by Montreal, Kilimanjaro, Dar es Salaam, Nairobi and Zanzibar, Key Aero reports. A generous first itinerary.
Read more at key.aero →Demand for private aviation is outstripping supply, driven by rising global wealth and commercial travel disruptions, FLYING Magazine reports on McKinsey analysis. The result is ageing fleets, low new deliveries and infrastructure constraints, especially in North America. Even private jets now have a queue.
Read more at flyingmag.com →Lufthansa has ended its relationship with the Airbus A340-600, one of aviation's oddest four-engine passenger jets. Long seen as a commercial flop with thirsty engines and a record-breaking length, the type got a fanatical send-off at Washington Dulles, CNN reports. Enthusiasts loved it more than accountants did.
Read more at cnn.com →The FAA has issued BETA Technologies a Special Airworthiness Market Survey Certificate for its ALIA A250 eVTOL, the first of its kind. It allows the aircraft to fly with operators and participants to conduct market surveys, ch-aviation reports. The survey now has wings.
Read more at ch-aviation.com →Archer Aviation plans to launch electric air taxi networks in Austin, Houston and the Dallas to Fort Worth area, the company said on Friday, the Wall Street Journal reports. Air taxis remain perpetually about to launch. The full piece is for subscribers.
Read more at The Wall Street Journal →The Airbus A220 will be the first airliner offered with a Safran military anti-interference navigation system, designed to counter the impact of GPS jamming, FlightGlobal reports. Military kit is now a cabin option. The full piece is for subscribers.
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The FAA has ordered inspections of nearly 2,000 Boeing 737 Next Generation aircraft after operators reported pitch oscillations linked to looseness in the horizontal stabiliser. The directive takes effect on 23 November and requires measuring hinge and jackscrew movement.
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A Jet2 Boeing 737-800 arriving from Venice veered off the runway at Birmingham Airport on Sunday as Storm Boelo brought strong winds. The airline cited exceptional weather conditions, Simple Flying reports, citing the BBC.
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ICAO wants countries to copy those already showing that better air traffic coordination saves thousands of flying hours and cuts emissions. Air traffic management delays cost Europe an estimated 2.3 billion dollars or more in 2025, according to EUROCONTROL, UN News reports. Circling is expensive.
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A bomb threat written on a washroom mirror of IndiGo flight 6E1494 from Phuket to Kolkata triggered extensive security checks on Saturday after landing. Passengers were evacuated and stranded on the tarmac for nearly two hours, The Times of India reports.
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From 4 November, airlines flying to the US must ensure boarding passengers confirm they have not recently been in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, FlightGlobal reports. The full piece is for subscribers.
Read more at FlightGlobal →United flight 1681 from Las Vegas to Newark returned to Las Vegas about an hour after take-off on 24 October because of a potential security concern. Passengers reached Newark nearly nine hours late, USA Today reports.
Read more at usatoday.com →A United Express flight bound for Atlanta, operated by Mesa Airlines, was evacuated shortly after leaving the gate at Houston Bush Intercontinental when a sensor alerted crew to smoke in the cabin. Passengers and crew exited safely with no injuries.
Read more at abc13.com →Collins Aerospace announced simpler upgrade paths for its radio altimeters so business aviation operators can meet new FAA standards on resilience to 5G interference without replacing whole systems, Eurasia Review reports. Phones and planes are still negotiating.
Read more at eurasiareview.com →The FAA has released draft design standards for heliports and vertiports for industry comment, setting out its thinking on hazards from VTOL aircraft downwash, Aviation Week reports. The air taxis now have draft parking rules. The full piece is for subscribers.
Read more at aviationweek.com →Egypt's Air Traffic Controllers' Club marked International Air Traffic Control Day with an awards celebration attended by Civil Aviation Minister Sameh El-Hefny and senior aviation officials, honouring controllers for excellence in aviation safety, the Egyptian Gazette reports. The quietest job in aviation got applause.
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The DGCA has given airlines until March to fully comply with revised Flight Duty Time Limitations, the third extension. The rules redefine night duty as midnight to 6 am, cap night landings at two and limit duty to 10 hours, the Economic Times reports. Deadlines also get rest periods.
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The Federation of Indian Pilots has urged the Civil Aviation Ministry to withdraw the DGCA's extension of flight duty relaxations until March 2027, warning that safety must not be compromised for airline scheduling and inadequate crew planning, CNBC TV18 reports.
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First Lt. Angeleo Adrian Penaflor, one of four aviators killed in the SF-260 collision at Fernando Air Base, graduated with high honours and finished first in his pilot training course. His family paid tribute to his humility, Daily Tribune reports.
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Four Philippine Air Force pilots were killed when two SF-260 trainer aircraft crashed during a training flight at Fernando Air Base in Batangas on 23 October. The air force has grounded its SF-260 fleet while the cause is investigated.
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An FAA edict limiting how take-offs and landings work on Centennial Airport's three runways has left private pilots taxiing longer and made life difficult for flight schools, the Denver Gazette reports. The FAA cited a yearlong review that found major risks.
Read more at denvergazette.com →Planes owned by a firm involved in a crash that killed a teenager and his 80-year-old instructor had been the subject of at least five previous watchdog investigations, The Mail on Sunday reports. The full piece is for subscribers.
Read more at newspaper.dailymail.com →The Rwanda Civil Aviation Training and Innovation Centre and Airways International have commissioned a full-scope air traffic control simulator, including a 360-degree aerodrome control setup, which could reduce East Africa's reliance on overseas controller training, Avi-Go reports. Training is coming home.
Read more at avi-go.com →Tolulope Dawodu, convener of the 8th Explore Aviation Careers Conference, urged the industry to bridge the gap between youth aspirations and opportunities. The event brought together aviation leaders, regulators, professionals and aspiring talent, Aviation Metric reports. Conferences remain aviation's most reliable product.
Read more at aviationmetric.com →Cadet pilot programmes first, then aviation and aerospace roles, checked today. Every listing links to the original page. The medical is your own affair.
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