Ethiopian Airlines crash: The Boeing 737 MAX 8 planes will be grounded till appropriate modifications and safety measures are undertaken to ensure their safe operations, said the Ministry of Civil Aviation.

This agreement will enable both of these carriers to provide more flexibility of choice to their customers.

A Turkish Airlines survey on aviation trend in India has said 50 per cent of the respondents prefer air travel to other modes of transport with most of them looking forward to having in-flight connectivity and onboard mobile phone calls.

The indefinite ban, which came into effect from March 25, has impacted 10 airports in the Middle East and nine airlines, including Turkish Airlines and major Gulf carriers like Emirates, Etihad and Qatar Airways.

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The airline said it expected to operate about two thirds of its roughly 3,000 scheduled flights on Wednesday and would publish details of flight cancellations later on Tuesday.

Etihad Airways, which holds 24 per cent stake in the Naresh Goyal-led carrier, has already taken on lease six planes from Jet Airways.

AI chairman Rohit Nandan said that Star had put on hold AI's application owing to problems within the carrier.

After a seven-year wait, Air India would finally enter the largest global airlines network Star Alliance in July after meeting all minimum conditions, including steps to enhance customer satisfaction.

Kapil Kaul, CEO of aviation consultancy CAPA (India and the Middle East), says post 2014/15, the industry will see a better operating environment and will return to sustainable growth. Here are five reasons why things could get better starting next year.

The airline has been in talks with the Indian government foran increase in the number of seats it has been allotted, as it wants to expand tomore Indian cites.

The all-new business class on the Turkish Airlines A330-300 from Delhi to Istanbul.