Reading Time: < 1 minute InterGlobe Aviation Ltd., which operates India’s leading domestic carrier – IndiGo – and Bangalore International Airport Limited (BIAL) – operator of Kempegowda International Airport, Bengaluru (KIAB) – have entered into a 20-year agreement to sub-lease land at the BLR Airport to build a state-of-the-art Maintenance Repair & Overhaul (MRO) facility. The 13,000-sq mts hangar, to […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute An Indigo Airbus A320-200N, performing flight from Lucknow to Jaipur (India), reported engine vibrations. Aircraft was climbing out of Lucknow when the crew stopped the climb at FL120 reporting high vibrations on the #2 engine (PW1127, right hand) and decided to return to Lucknow for a safe landing about 35 minutes after departure. A replacement A320-200N, […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute IndiGo Airbus A320neo, performing a flight from Jaipur to Kolkata, made an emergency landing in Kolkata because of smoke in the cabin. According to the airline, the aircraft made an emergency landing as a precaution due to suspected smoke in the cabin. No passengers were injured. The flight landed safely at Kolkata. There was no […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute ATR achieved an important milestone with the delivery of its 1,000th ATR 72. The aircraft took to the sky in the colours of leading Indian domestic carrier, IndiGo. This delivery consolidates the ATR 72 as an outstanding commercial success and a benchmark in the regional aviation market. With continuous innovation at the heart of ATR, […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute U.S. aftermarket specialist AAR has signed an agreement with Indian carrier IndiGo to provide support for landing gear overhaul services on its fleet of Airbus A320 aircraft. The contract will cover up to 49 landing gear full ship sets, as well as assemblies and subassemblies, over a five-year period. It expands on an existing component […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes India’s Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) is investigating incidents involving Pratt & Whitney engines in the A320neo fleet of IndiGo Airlines and GoAir. Part of their investigation will involve the inspection of sixteen A320neo aircraft in IndiGo’s fleet and five in GoAir’s, reports The Times of India. The inspection is due to take two […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute A major mishap was averted at the Indira Gandhi International Airport in Delhi on Tuesday morning after an Indigo and a SpiceJet aircraft came face to face on the taxi way. “An Indigo flight 6C-729 which was coming from Lucknow to Delhi with 176 passengers on board, post landing, saw on the taxi way a […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute A Kozhikode-bound Indigo airlines flight from Dubai made an emergency landing at Mumbai airport after a passenger made a speech in support of the dreaded terror outfit Islamic State on Thursday morning. The man, who is suspected to be a Keralite, started speaking for the ISIS and its ideals when the the flight was airborne. […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute The Delhi-based low-cost airline, IndiGo is to start its 15th direct flight between Delhi and Bengaluru and 11th direct flight between Delhi and Chennai from June 1. In a communication to travel agents, the airline has said that the 15th direct daily service between Delhi and Bengaluru will leave at 11.30 p.m. and arrive in […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Airbus has delivered its second revamped Airbus A320neo to Indian budget carrier IndiGo, gaining a new operator two months after it went into service with Germany’s Lufthansa, the European planemaker said on Friday. Deliveries of the re-engined narrow-body jet have been delayed as engine maker Pratt & Whitney addresses technical problems with its Geared Turbofan […]