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Air India: Boeing Dreamliner delay “a total disaster”
Arvind Jadhav, the managing director of Air India, has launched a ferocious broadside against Boeing, the US aircraft manufacturer, from the UK’s Farnborough Air Show. Jadhav faces the enormous...
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Indian aviation: good news, bad news
Tuesday was a sort of good news/bad news day for India’s embattled private airlines. Even as the civil aviation ministry announced that it would recommend lifting the limit on foreign direct investment...
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Indian aviation: turning the tables
India’s private airlines were allowed a brief moment of schadenfreude on Wednesday, when the state-owned Air India had a debt restructuring rejected, while their shareprices soared on the growing...
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Air India: state to the rescue, again
Just two month after having its bank accounts frozen for failing to deposit service tax payments, debt-ridden national carrier Air India on Wednesday saw its fuel supplies halted by state-owned oil...
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Two cheers for Indian aviation
Things might just be looking up for India’s two worst-performing airlines, Kingfisher Airlines and Air India. The former may be on the verge of being rescued by a foreign airline. The latter – no...
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Air India pilots strike: childish edition
Air India’s pilots have a message for their employer: if you force us to share our toys, then we’re not playing! That was the attitude expressed by around 100 of the company’s pilots who fly...
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Air India: call for the doctor
Anyone who has ever tried to fly Air India and found themselves delayed by hours, or harangued by surly staff, knows that the state carrier has been on life support for ages – and has probably thought...
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Air India: cashing in on its art?
Flying through a period of renewed turbulence following a protracted pilot strike, troubled state airline Air India is now looking to its valuable collection of high art to help keep it aloft. The...
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Air India gets Dreamliner. Now dream on
Air India’s bosses were in Charleston, South Carolina this week to collect the first of their 27 Boeing 787 Dreamliners, six years after they ordered them and following a four-year delay in delivery....
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Indian aviation: only itself to blame
Will the Indian aviation industry ever learn? Last year, as beyondbrics reported, the industry was is turmoil after state carrier Air India initiated a price war that caused the airlines to spiral into...
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Indian airlines: low cost carriers expanding
It turns out cheap is, indeed, cheerful where Indian airlines are concerned. According to a new global ranking, low-cost carriers IndiGo and SpiceJet expanded capacity by 34.6 per cent and 16 per cent...
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Jet-Etihad deal: Air India the loser
After months in the pipeline, a deal has finally been announced between India’s Jet Airways and Etihad. The UAE’s national carrier will pay Rs754.74 per share for a 24 per cent stake in Jet, valuing...
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Jet shares wobble on deal delay
Shares in Jet Airways dipped more than 12 per cent on Monday morning on Friday’s decision by India’s Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB) to defer approving Etihad Airways’ plan to buy a stake in...
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