IAAI’s Eleventh Annual General Meeting Inaugurated, 08 March 2014, Chennai.

A search is under way in waters between Malaysia and Vietnam after a Malaysia Airlines plane vanished on a flight to Beijing, with 239 people on board. Malaysia Airlines said in a statement that flight MH370 had disappeared at 02:40 local time on Saturday (18:40 GMT on Friday) after leaving Kuala Lumpur. It had been

AirAsia is likely to begin its operations in India in May this year. “We may get the Air Operator Permit (AOP) in about three weeks. Thereafter, we may commence operations in two months from Chennai,” said Mittu Chandilya, CEO, AirAsia India. “Our model is based on low fares. The fares could be 25-30 per cent

Jet Airways has withdrawn four flights from Kolkata. The move is to spare aircrafts that are required to meet international commitments following the USD 339-million deal with Etihad Airways PJSC. Two more flights will be taken off from the city next month, reducing the number of daily departures from Kolkata to 24, The Times of

Federation of Indian Airlines (FIA) had written to DGCA for not granting Air Asia permit to start its operations as they fear stiff competition and complained that the new entrant will disrupt industry “equilibrium”. Air Asia India, the joint venture between the Tatas and Tony Fernandes plans to start operations sometime this year but it

Lufthansa and Emirates expect to start flying Airbus 380 into India, after the government recently lifted the unofficial ban on the plane, as per a Wall Street Journal report by Santanu Choudhury. Executives at the airlines said they would make their decisions depending on their studies of the ability of the nation’s airports to handle

Lufthansa yesterday announced the appointment of Wolfgang Will as its new Director India. Will who took charge from February 1, 2014 will be based at Gurgaon and will be responsible for overseeing the airline’s commercial activities in India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. He succeeds Axel Hilgers, who served as Lufthansa’s Director, India since 2008, overseeing

The International Air Transport Association has appointed Conrad Clifford as Regional Vice President for Asia Pacific. His appointment will be effective from February 1, 2014 and he will be based at IATA’s Asia Pacific Regional Office in Singapore. He succeeds Maunu von Lueders, who is retiring from IATA. Clifford has over 30 years of experience