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Air India Express has commenced operations from Nagpur with the launch of twice-daily direct flights to Bengaluru, strengthening connectivity between central India and the airline’s...
The central government had privatized six major airports in the country - Lucknow, Ahmedabad, Mangaluru, Jaipur, Thiruvananthapuram and Guwahati, through a bidding process in which Adani Group had won the rights for 50 years.
This initiative was illustrated under the national monetisation pipeline (NMP)on Monday. It will also have the inclusion of privates airports such as Mumbai (26 per cent stake), Delhi (26 per cent stake), Hyderabad (13 per cent stake), and Bangalore (13 per cent stake). The total evaluation of profit comes around 18 per cent of all the airport assets under AAI. Assets under monetisation are to have an increment of Rs 20,782 crore for FY 2022-25. Whereas under NMP there are about 13 sectors, along with airports government is planning to monetise with their brownfield infrastructure assets.
"As per the entry requirement of the UAE, a rapid PCR test will be conducted for every passenger at the respective Indian departure airport,” the carrier averred on August 23.
UAE had earlier announced that all IndiGo flights will be suspended till August 24. The flights were banned on Tuesday as many passengers failed to take the mandatory RT-PCR test at the departure airport.
Earlier in the morning of August 19, CNBC TV-18 reported that the UAE government had banned IndiGo from functioning its flights for a week after many passengers did follow the protocol of the mandatory RT-PCR test at the departure airport.
Domestic air travel had become costlier as the Civil Aviation Ministry aims to raise the lower and upper caps on fares by 9.83 to 12.82 per cent, read an official order.
The government aims for absolute privatisation of Air India and Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd (BPCL) current year, Tuhin Kant Pandey, Secretary at the Department of Investment and Public Asset Management (DIPAM) asserted this Wednesday.
According to the latest report published in The Tribune, the unknown drone turned out to be a remotely piloted aircraft (RPA), associated with the Jammu base of IAF.
UK Transport Secretary Grant Shapps had announced, “The UAE, Qatar, India and Bahrain will be moved from the red list to the amber list. All changes come into effect Sun 8th August at 4 am.”