Recently, a CAG report had come down hard on the railways for the flexi-fare prices and it stated a comparison with airfare for 13 sectors showed that travelling in aeroplane was cheaper than in train for a large number of routes.

\"What India needs is a modern, clean, safe and fast rail system,\" Sreedharan said.

Vistara is not only the highest-rated Indian airline on SkyTrax and TripAdvisor, but was recently awarded by the Ministry of Civil Aviation, Airports Authority of India and FICCI for being the 'Most Passenger Friendly Airline'.

Just before landing, the pilot asked, \"Are we cleared to land?\"

Passengers were relocated to another plane, according to reports.

There are paintings and photographs in the coaches depicting the cultural heritage of Maharashtra, Gujarat and Delhi and of their monuments too.

Aerospace engine manufacturer Pratt & Whitney (P&W) is caught in the eye of the storm yet again. The US-based P&W's controversial PW1100G engine, based on the latest geared turbofan (GTF) technology, is creating trouble for the airlines globally.

Officials said that passengers could be charged Rs 500 to Rs 1000 for 30 minutes to an hour of Internet access in flight.

The regulator said that Internet services through Wi-Fi onboard should be made available when electronic devices are permitted to be used only in-flight or airplane mode.

The hike might not be felt till March, which is when the peak season travel begins.

Two of the aircrafts are to be used for ferrying VVIPs, the MoS civil aviation Jayant Sinha said in a written reply in the Lok Sabha. The delivery of the three B777-300 ER planes is scheduled to be completed next month.

The flight, DN 1320, took off for Jalgaon, around 400 km from here in North Maharashtra, from the Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport (CSIA) here this afternoon.

A newly release application dubbed Datally made available free at the Google Play Store this week lets people see when games, social networks or other programs are using internet connections in the background, and then put a stop to it.

The pilot saw the boar but could not abort the takeoff as it was too late.

The Bombardier's Global 7000 jet costs USD 72 million.

Monarch Airlines collapsed on Monday, the biggest ever failure of a British airline, stranding tens of thousands of travellers overseas and prompting the country's biggest-ever peacetime repatriation effort.

Airplane services on this route began in 1967 and cover a distance of 2.7 km.