IndiGo has finally decided to fly without Rakesh Gangwal – its architect

While a defamation suit is unlikely, Rahul Bhatia’s InterGlobe Enterprise, which owns 37 per cent stake in IndiGo, will support groups of minority investors if they sue Gangwal for causing erosion of shareholder’s wealth. After their bitter public spat, it’s unlikely that Bhatia will allow any more room to Gangwal, says Arindam Majumdar. In the […]

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Aviation goes to school

Sputnik 2 on display at the Moscow Polytechnical Museum in Russian. (Photo by Mikhail (Vokabre) Shcherbakov via Wikimedia.org) I have three children. One boy and two girls. They range in age from 20 to 35 years old. All of them have flown. None of them are pilots. None of them work in the aviation industry. […]

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Airbus is making life easy for Boeing

The two fatal Boeing (NYSE:BA) 737 MAX crashes — and the subsequent grounding of that model — have captured most of the headlines in the aviation world over the past year. Indeed, Boeing has suffered a big setback to its reputation and financial performance. However, Airbus (NASDAQOTH:EADSY) has been unable to capitalize on Boeing’s woes […]

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Senators grill FAA safety official on Boeing 737 Max crashes

WASHINGTON – The Federal Aviation Administration’s top safety manager, facing his most rigorous public questioning since two Boeing jets crashed under similar circumstances, repeatedly defended the FAA’s approach to safety Wednesday but also acknowledged a key agency misjudgment. Ali Bahrami, the FAA’s associate administrator for aviation safety, sought to blunt criticisms during a Senate hearing […]

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India’s domestic air passenger traffic up 7.9% in June: IATA

MUMBAI:India’s domestic air passenger traffic rose 7.9 per cent in June over the year ago period even as the average demand for domestic travel across seven major aviation markets declined in the reporting month to 4.4 per cent from 4.7 per cent earlier, IATA said on Thursday. The overall global passenger traffic (domestic and international), […]

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African airlines register growing passenger traffic

By MICHAEL WAKABI African airlines continue to build capacity improving passenger and fleet numbers. According to details contained in the 2018 International Air Transport Association (IATA) report, African airlines carried 92 million passengers out of the global traffic of 4.4 billion passengers. The numbers, which exclude passengers ferried into the region by non-resident carriers, represent […]

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ACC questions ignore the reality of tricky energy transition

Andy Jackson The coalition Government has banned new offshore oil and gas exploration permits but onshore drill sites like this are set to stay. EDITORIAL: They huddle together for warmth, forced outside by a societal shunning of their unpopular practice. And their number is set to grow. In the not too-distant future, smokers will likely have […]

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