Directorate General of Civil Aviation

The Madhya Pradesh Tourism Board is set to organize the fourth consecutive Skydiving Festival with aim to boost adventure tourism and diversify tourism activities in the state.

An Air Arabia flight bound for Sharjah was grounded at the Coimbatore International Airport following a bird hit during the takeoff on Monday.

Despite Jet Airways, with its fleet of 123 aircraft, shutting down operations in 2019, the year saw India’s fleet of commercial aircraft growing by nearly 29%. From 520 in 2018, the number of commercial aircraft in the country rose to 669 in 2019. Data from the country’s aviation regulator, Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA), […]

Domestic airlines flew 1.19 crore passengers in July this year registering a 3.15% growth over the 1.15 crore passengers flown during the same period previous year. Data released by the aviation regulator Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) show that IndiGo retained the No.1 position in terms of number of passengers carried with 56.93 lakh, […]

Perturbed by the partial closure of Mumbai airport for about four days after a SpiceJet aircraft overshot the runway into the mud, leading to the cancellation of hundreds of flights, Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has asked six airport operators to buy additional equipment to retrieve stuck aircraft. The decision was taken at a […]

Grounded Jet Airways could lose its wide-body Boeing 777 fleet as its lender US Export-Import (Exim) Bank has written to the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) to de-register the aircraft. Jet possessed 10 B777-300 ER aircraft, which were funded by the Washington-based bank in 2005-06. Six of those Boeing aircraft were given as collateral […]