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Central Railway said that TDR will be issued for refund as per extant refund rules. (Representative image: Shutterstock) According to Central Railway, during the block period the IVRS system, current reservation, refund counters, coaching refund terminal and internet booking for Mumbai PRS will not be availableNews18.com MumbaiLast Updated:May 07, 2022, 09:20 ISTFOLLOW US ON:INDIAN RAILWAYS UPDATE: The passenger reservation system (PRS) of the Indian Railways would be suspended for almost five hours for PNR file…

Lower base effect as well as easing Covid travel restrictions accelerated India’s domestic air passenger traffic growth by over 36 per cent in March on a year-on-year basis.Pent-up demand and accelerated economic recovery also pushed the air passenger numbers higher during the month under review.According to the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA), the country’s scheduled domestic flight operations ferried 1.06 crore passengers last month. In March 2021, the traffic numbers stood at 78.22 lakh.On a sequential…

Video footage showing a Chinese Y-20 cargo plane unloading personnel and cargo in Shanghai last week as part of the country's response to the COVID-19 outbreak there has highlighted one of the aircraft's more unusual features. The four-engine military cargo jet can be configured as required with an upper deck with seats for dozens of passengers that allows for cargo to still be loaded underneath. The domestically-produced Y-20 became a bigger topic of discussion this weekend when six of them were tracked online carrying…

Stuttgart-based German aerospace company H2FLY has claimed a new world record for its four-seater HY4, which became the first hydrogen-powered passenger aircraft to reach an altitude above 7,000 ft (2,134 m) on April 13. In addition, the HY4 made the first flight by a hydrogen-powered passenger craft from one major airport to another, traveling 77 miles (124 km) from Stuttgart to Friedrichshafen on April 12.First taking to the air in 2016, the HY4 with its distinctive twin-fuselage design is based on the Pipistrel Taurus…

Fusion Processing has announced that an autonomous public transport project will start on-road testing this week, en route to beginning a new 14-mile pilot service ferrying passengers across a long-span suspension bridge in Scotland later this year.Fusion Processing has partnered with Stagecoach, Alexander Dennis Ltd, Transport Scotland, Edinburgh Napier University and Bristol Robotics Laboratory for the CAVForth project, which has been in the works since 2020.The pilot project will see five single-deck SAE Level 4…

Participants on their way to the Test Flight in an ATR72. Credit: International Journal of Aviation, Aeronautics, and Aerospace (2022). DOI: 10.15394/ijaaa.2022.1679 A lack of leg room is a well-known grumble among passengers on flights—but noise in the cabin is the number one gripe when it comes to propeller aircraft, a new study suggests.…