NEWS | easyJet cautiously confident on strong performance

easyJet has reported a 16.7% rise in revenues for the first quarter to £763 million, which the carrier attributes to its affordable fares.
Passengers carried over the three months to the end of December increased by 8.1% to 12.9 million, and the load factor increased by 0.9 percentage points to 87.6%.

NEWS | Navy jet’s tyre bursts, Dabolim runway shut for an hour

 Air traffic at Goa's Dabolim airport was disrupted for nearly an hour on Monday evening after a tyre of an Indian Navy Sea Harrier jet burst.
The tyre of the Sea Harrier burst on landing throwing air traffic out of gear for nearly an hour, an official said.
The Dabolim runway was closed from 4.30pm to 5.30 pm.

NEWS | CM late, Indigo delays departure

Hyderabad: Passengers on a Bengaluru-bound Indigo Airlines flight had to suffer a 20-minute delay on Tuesday as the airline held up the flight until Chief Minister N. Kiran Kumar Reddy and his retinue were aboard. The flight was scheduled to leave at 8.35 am. Indigo Airlines confirmed the delay but said they had bent the rules because they were given misleading information by the Chief Minister’s staff. “Most of the CM’s entourage or associates heading for Bengaluru had already boarded the plane.

NEWS | Fog hits on-time take-off by airlines

 The fog has brought down the on-time performance (OTP) of domestic airlines. According to the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA), the overall OTP for domestic flights was just 77.9% last December, down from over 80-90 % earlier . Beleaguered Kingfisher, which has cut flights to survive , topped the list with its truncated schedule flying at 87.3% on time last month.

NEWS | Jet Airways plans ‘sedate' capacity addition in 2012-13

  Jet Airways said that it would not significantly add capacity during 2012-13. However, the domestic aviation market leader expects yield, revenue/passenger, to improve significantly during the current quarter ending March 31.