SkyHop aims to enhance regional connectivity, linking mainland India with islands and remote areas, while supporting tourism. Industrialist Avani Singh-led SkyHop Aviation has taken a significant step towards launching seaplane services in India, signing its first aircraft lease agreement with Japanese lessor AERL, industry sources told businessline. Accordingly, the development allows the upcoming operator to […]
Jeet Adani, Director, Adani Defence & Aerospace Adani Group’s tie-up with Brazilian aerospace major Embraer is a step towards positioning the industrial conglomerate as a one-stop shop for the aviation sector, Jeet Adani, Director, Adani Defence & Aerospace, told businessline. In an exclusive interaction, Jeet Adani said the memorandum of understanding with Embraer is aimed […]
The government has approved two new airlines after the IndiGo flight crisis brought aviation to a virtual standstill in India. Union Minister of Civil Aviation Kinjarapu Ram Mohan Naidu. (ANI) Al Hind Air and FlyExpress have received no objection certificates from the civil aviation ministry to start operations, Minister Kinjarapu Ram Mohan Naidu wrote on […]
The Ahmedabad-based Adani Group has a five-year, $11-billion expansion plan for its airports business but no plans to start an airline in the world’s fastest growing aviation market. Jeet Adani, director at Adani Airports Holdings Ltd. and son of billionaire Gautam Adani, at the newly built Navi Mumbai International Airport. (Reuters) What’s the plan: The […]
AN INDIAN WEDDING reception can be a tedious affair. A typical example finds the bride and groom sitting on—or standing next to—a pair of gaudy thrones. Guests queue up to hand over presents and have their photos taken. There is often no booze, no dancing, no revelry. At a reception in the southern city of […]
India’s latest aviation fiasco—about 3,000 flights cancelled since last week—has exposed the ill effects of leaving two-thirds of a fast-growing market in the hands of a single player and allowing it to become not just too big to fail, but also too big to tame. A passenger waits outside the IndiGo Airlines kiosk at the […]
Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd. plans to manufacture Russia’s SJ-100 aircraft in India to boost short-haul flights in the world’s fastest growing civil aviation market of its size. The SJ-100 is a twin-cylinder, narrow-body aircraft for short-haul flights. (company handout) The Indian company has signed an agreement with Russia’s United Aircraft Corp. PJSC to manufacture the commuter […]