Geopolitical tensions on the subcontinent have spilled into civil aerospace, with Air India looking to “adjust plans” and shift maintenance work on its widebody aircraft away from Turkish Technic over Turkiye’s support for Pakistan.
India is putting the rise of its blossoming aviation industry at the centre of its economic growth story; Prime Minister Narendra Modi told a packed room at IATA’s 81st Annual General Meeting in Delhi on 2 June.
IATA launched a 10-year Global Baggage Roadmap to modernise baggage operations during the IATA Ground Handling Conference (IGHC) which opened in Nairobi yesterday hosted by Kenya Airways.
India’s home-made HJT-36 combat trainer aircraft inched closer towards final stage of certification tests after it received the AL-55I turbojet engines from Russia.
Gulf Air has said it has begun the summer season with 80% of its pre-pandemic destinations as it continues to resume operations and restore services to cities of its original 2019 destination network.
India’s HAL Corporation has received two AL-55I engines from the United Engine Corporation of Rostec which will be used for the final stage of certification tests of the Indian HJT-36 aircraft.
India has received “tremendous” response from international companies to its request for information (RFI) to lease at least 20 basic trainer aircraft for training rookie pilots of the country’s air force.
