Tag: Directorate General of Civil Aviation

It was just two days before that the flights between Kota and Delhi was inaugurated, and it have been stopped now following objections raised by the airport authorities over mandatory clearances for operating commercials flights. Low-cost carrier, Supreme Airlines had started operating flights between Kota and Delhi from April 11, using a nine-seat fixed wing craft. The Kota airport administration and the airlines operator are accusing each other for the discontinuation of the flights. The airport authorities have asked Supreme Airlines to submit the mandatory clearances from the Airport Authority of India (AAI) and the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) ... Read more

IndiGo and GoAir are planning to cancel around 620 flights this month due to engine malfunction. The airlines will give passengers an option to choose an alternate flight or get a full refund. Of which 480 belongs to IndiGo will cancel 480; the rest are of GoAir. Earlier this week, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) had grounded 11 Airbus A320 neo aircraft due to recurring malfunctions in their engines. The malfunction has occurred with sub-population of engines manufactured by Pratt and Whitney (PW). Of the 11, eight belongs to IndiGo and three to GoAir. IndiGo has cancelled almost 488 ... Read more

IndiGo has cancelled as many as 47 flights today after aviation regulator Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) grounded eight A320Neo planes of IndiGo with faulty Pratt & Whitney engines, along with three such aircraft of GoAir. IndiGo has cancelled 47 flights across its domestic network, the airline announced on its website. The flights that have been cancelled are from Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Kolkata, Hyderabad, Bangalore, Patna, Srinagar, Bhubaneswar, Amritsar, Srinagar and Guwahati, among others. The DGCA came into action after an IndiGo flight bound for Lucknow returned to Ahmedabad within 40 minutes of it getting airborne due to a mid-air ... Read more