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Last Updated: January 26, 2023, 11:06 ISTImage used for Representation. (Credit: PTI)For the domestic sector, the reimbursement will be 75 percent of the cost of the ticket including taxes as per DGCAAviation regulator Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) on Wednesday amended rules on facilities to be provided to passengers by airlines due to denied boarding, cancellation of flights and delays in flights.The amendment will allow the passenger, who is downgraded involuntarily and is carried in a class lower than…

Domestic carrier Go First on Friday said it will operate 42 direct flights per week, connecting Mumbai, Hyderabad, and Bengaluru from the new international airport at Mopa in North Goa.The airline’s operations from the existing airport at Dabolim in the Southern part of the state will also continue, Go First said in a statement. The Wadia Group airline currently operates 65 non-stop weekly flights to and from Dabolim airport to key destinations in the country.Developed by GMR Airports Ltd through its subsidiary GMR Goa…

Last Updated: November 02, 2022, 18:27 ISTRepresentative Image (Credit: IANS)The 'Fictitious Flight' caused a lot of chaos at the Rajiv Gandhi International Airport (RGIA) with several flyers left stranded in total confusionA rather bizarre incident occurred at the Rajiv Gandhi International Airport (RGIA) in Hyderabad when people were told by the authorities that no such flight exists despite having valid tickets with PNRs. The people in question here had tickets for a Go First flight from Hyderabad to Delhi. The CISF…

Last Updated: August 04, 2022, 16:23 ISTRepresentative Image (Credit: IANS)Go First flight was diverted due to an incident of a bird hit and an investigation has been initiated by DGCAGo First flight operating from Ahmedabad to Chandigarh was diverted to Ahmedabad after an incident of a bird hit. As per the aviation regulator, Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA), engine number 1 of flight G8-911 is suspected to be hit by a bird and an investigation has been initiated. “During operations, an aircraft may…

Last Updated: August 03, 2022, 12:13 ISTIn an unusual incident at Delhi airport on Tuesday, a car belonging to Go First airline went under a parked IndiGo A320 Neo aircraft, narrowly avoiding collision with the plane’s nose wheel. Aviation regulator Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) said that it is looking into the matter and an enquiry has been initiated into the incident which took place at stand number 201 of the airport’s T2 terminal. “On August 2, IndiGo aircraft VT-ITJ was parked on stand no. 201,…

Air traffic in the Indian skies has returned to normalcy with airports buzzing with a large number of footfalls in the last couple of months. Air traffic data has rightly shown that passengers carried by domestic airlines saw a growth of 66.73 percent from 343.37 lakh to 572.49 lakh in the January to June period, compared to the previous year. However, growth in air traffic has apparently brought a lot of turbulence as planes have witnessed a vast number of technical glitches-related occurrences and a rising number of…

The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has noted that Go First aircraft VT-WGA flight G8-386 scheduled to fly from Mumbai-Leh has been diverted to Delhi due to a fault in the EIU (Engine Interface Unit) of engine number two. Another Go First A320 aircraft VT-WJG flight G8-6202 that departed from Srinagar for Delhi had to make in-air turnback to Srinagar due to EGT’s overlimit in engine number two. Following this, the DGCA has grounded both the aircrafts till they are cleared by the regulator. Today GoAir A320…

As maintenance technicians at IndiGo and Go First continue to remain on sick leave protesting low salaries, aviation regulator DGCA on Wednesday said it hopes the situation will improve soon. IndiGo said it is in the process of addressing some of the issues related to employee remuneration and asserted that its flight operations continue to be normal. Go First said a “few people” who had absented themselves from duties in the last two to three days were “misguided” and after counselling, they have assured the carrier that…

Image for representation. (File photo/News18)Go First said it will also introduce five additional direct flights to and from Srinagar to Delhi and two additional flights between Leh and DelhiPTI Last Updated:June 22, 2022, 18:00 ISTFOLLOW US ON:Go First has said it will resume scheduled direct flights between Kashmir and Sharjah by the end of this month. “The airline has recently received the bilateral rights to operate five flights per week on the Srinagar-Sharjah-Srinagar route and the final approval is awaited,” the…

Go First on Tuesday said it has stopped operating the Srinagar-Sharjah flight from March 27 as it does not have the requisite bilateral rights. Airlines need bilateral rights — which are granted under air services agreements signed between the two countries — to operate scheduled international passenger flights. Home Minister Amit Shah inaugurated Go First’s Srinagar-Sharjah flight on October 23 last year, connecting Jammu and Kashmir with the United Arab Emirates after around 11 years.“We were operating…