Global Airport Operations

Adani Airport Holdings Limited (AAHL), India's largest private airport operator, and global tech leader Thales, have announced a strategic collaboration aimed at revolutionising airport operations and enhancing passenger experience across India.

Airline systems across airports, which were impacted due to a global IT outage on Friday, have started working normally, and all issues are likely to be resolved by noon on Saturday, Civil Aviation Minister K Rammohan Naidu said. The ministry is constantly monitoring the operations at airports and airlines to ensure travel readjustments and refunds...

The global Microsoft outage has affected 90 per cent flights operating from Bengaluru airport's Terminal 1, sources have said. IndiGo airlines officials said the situation is likely to continue till midnight.

Air India has appointed Jayaraj Shanmugam as the head of its global airport operations.

The first flight bringing Indians stranded amid the Israel-Hamas war will take off from Ben Gurion airport in Tel Aviv tonight. Many of those who have registered with the Indian embassy to be flown back include Indian students at Israel institutions.

Air India passengers were left stranded at several airports across the world as its check-in software stopped functioning for around six hours

As the Maldives implodes under the weight of a political crisis, an envoy of President Abdulla Yameen has made a quick dash to Beijing amid reports that Indian special forces are preparing for deployment to rescue Indians stranded in the picturesque archipelago

Amadeus, which operates global travel booking systems and offers check-in services for airlines, said it suffered a network problem on Thursday.

"Our results suggest that weight restriction may impose a non-trivial cost on airlines and impact aviation operations around the world," said Ethan Coffel of Columbia University in the US who is lead author of a study published in the journal Climatic Change.

HCL Technologies will employ 2,000 people at it upcoming Nagpur global IT centre. The campus, which is expected to be operational by January 2017 at the 50-acre Multi-modal International Cargo Hub and Airport at Nagpur or MIHAN will conduct recruitment in three phases, reported the Press Trust of India.

Global airlines operator Cathay Pacific Airways today said it is starting a bi-weekly non-stop freighter service from Kolkata airport to Hong Kong, aimed at boosting import and export in the region.

India has asked for interest from global companies to build and operate a new airport in Navi Mumbai, estimated to cost nearly $2 billion initially, in the outskirts of the financial capital to meet growing air traffic.

The court battle among airport operators, tax authorities and Kingfisher Airlines' lessors over repossession of its planes may have a negative impact on other Indian carriers leasing aircraft from global leasing companies, a leading aviation consultancy firm has said.

Government is considering giving the management control of the new Kolkata and Chennai airports, built by the Airports Authority of India (AAI), to global operators through a competitive bidding process.

Shares in GMR Infra plunged 7 per cent on Thursday after Maldives cancelled the $511 million airport development deal with the firm on Tuesday. GMR had won the contract in 2010 to upgrade and operate the Maldives airport and build a new terminal after a global tender overseen by the World Bank.

Adani Airport Holdings Limited (AAHL), India's largest private airport operator, and global tech leader Thales, have announced a strategic collaboration aimed at revolutionising airport operations and enhancing passenger experience across India.

Airline systems across airports, which were impacted due to a global IT outage on Friday, have started working normally, and all issues are likely to be resolved by noon on Saturday, Civil Aviation Minister K Rammohan Naidu said. The ministry is constantly monitoring the operations at airports and airlines to ensure travel readjustments and refunds...

The global Microsoft outage has affected 90 per cent flights operating from Bengaluru airport's Terminal 1, sources have said. IndiGo airlines officials said the situation is likely to continue till midnight.

Air India has appointed Jayaraj Shanmugam as the head of its global airport operations.

The first flight bringing Indians stranded amid the Israel-Hamas war will take off from Ben Gurion airport in Tel Aviv tonight. Many of those who have registered with the Indian embassy to be flown back include Indian students at Israel institutions.

Air India passengers were left stranded at several airports across the world as its check-in software stopped functioning for around six hours

As the Maldives implodes under the weight of a political crisis, an envoy of President Abdulla Yameen has made a quick dash to Beijing amid reports that Indian special forces are preparing for deployment to rescue Indians stranded in the picturesque archipelago

Amadeus, which operates global travel booking systems and offers check-in services for airlines, said it suffered a network problem on Thursday.

"Our results suggest that weight restriction may impose a non-trivial cost on airlines and impact aviation operations around the world," said Ethan Coffel of Columbia University in the US who is lead author of a study published in the journal Climatic Change.

HCL Technologies will employ 2,000 people at it upcoming Nagpur global IT centre. The campus, which is expected to be operational by January 2017 at the 50-acre Multi-modal International Cargo Hub and Airport at Nagpur or MIHAN will conduct recruitment in three phases, reported the Press Trust of India.

Global airlines operator Cathay Pacific Airways today said it is starting a bi-weekly non-stop freighter service from Kolkata airport to Hong Kong, aimed at boosting import and export in the region.

India has asked for interest from global companies to build and operate a new airport in Navi Mumbai, estimated to cost nearly $2 billion initially, in the outskirts of the financial capital to meet growing air traffic.

The court battle among airport operators, tax authorities and Kingfisher Airlines' lessors over repossession of its planes may have a negative impact on other Indian carriers leasing aircraft from global leasing companies, a leading aviation consultancy firm has said.

Government is considering giving the management control of the new Kolkata and Chennai airports, built by the Airports Authority of India (AAI), to global operators through a competitive bidding process.

Shares in GMR Infra plunged 7 per cent on Thursday after Maldives cancelled the $511 million airport development deal with the firm on Tuesday. GMR had won the contract in 2010 to upgrade and operate the Maldives airport and build a new terminal after a global tender overseen by the World Bank.