BJP seals alliances in Northeast, aims at 22 Lok Sabha seats

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has finalised its alliances in the Northeast, setting a target of winning at least 22 of the 25 Lok Sabha seats from eight states of the region, party general secretary Ram Madhav claimed on Wednesday. Madhav, the BJP’s incharge of the Northeast, held a series of discussions here on Tuesday […]

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Will fight PM Modi from wherever he will contest: Chandrashekhar Azad

Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, Congress General Secretary of Western UP Jyotiraditya Scindia and several senior Congress leaders including Congress State President Raj Babbar in UP reached Meerut to meet Chandrasekhar.

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Fiji Airways grounds its two 737 Max 8s

Fiji Airways has elected to ground its two Boeing 737 Max 8s, joining the growing list of operators that have suspended operations with the type following the 10 March crash of Ethiopian Airlines flight ET302. The carrier says that the decision was made in conjunction with the Civil Aviation Authority of Fiji, and the temporary […]

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Russia’s S7 opts to suspend 737 Max services

Russian carrier S7 Airlines has opted to suspend operation of its Boeing 737 Max jets, apparently without a specific instruction from the country’s civil aviation authority. The airline has two of the type, the only examples in Russia, operated by its Globus division. Federal air transport regulator Rosaviatsia issued a validated type certificate for the […]

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Cathay swings to profit as transformation bears fruit

The Cathay Pacific Group posted an operating profit of HK$3.6 billion ($459 million) in 2018, after two years of consecutive losses, as it saw the positive impact from its transformation programme. The result is a sharp improvement from the HK$1.45 billion loss logged in 2017. Revenue rose 14.2% to HK$111 billion, boosted by increases in […]

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EASA suspends all flights in the bloc of Boeing’s 737 MAX 8 and 9

Pressure is thus piling up on the United States to take similar action. The U.S. Senator Ted Cruz, a Republican who chairs the Senate subcommittee on aviation and space, suggested the United States should follow suit. 

source http://www.ncairways.co/world-news/similar-move/

‘No basis’ to ground 737 Max: FAA

The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) reiterates it has seen “no basis” to order a grounding of the Boeing 737 Max, as the USA remains the prominent outlier among a handful of countries that have not suspended operations with the aircraft after the fatal Ethiopian Airlines crash on 10 March. “The FAA continues to review […]

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