When asked what happened that night on January 16, 2012, Gen Singh said: "About a week before that, Go back in time and you will be able to do research on that".
Addressing the media on the sidelines of the CAPA India aviation summit event in Delhi on Wednesday, Bansal said, "Our ambition is we want to be the leading airport operators not only in India but in the world."
The Director of Aviation in the United Kingdom's department of transport appreciated India on the number of female pilots and the implementation of Digi Yatra on Wednesday.
Scindia said that there was a time when the airports were devoid of a single passenger and here, we are today when we have already crossed figures of 4.56 lakh domestic passengers in a day.
Due to weather conditions in the national capital, a total of 10 flights were diverted to other airports on Monday, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation said.
Passengers carried by Indian domestic airlines during January-February 2023 were 246.11 lakhs, as against 141.04 lakhs during the corresponding period of 2022, Directorate General of Civil Aviation data showed Monday.
"The number of passengers in the last six years almost doubled. We are the third-largest domestic Civil Aviation market in the world and by 2030 we will become the third-largest economy in the world," Scindia said.
Hema Rajaraman sought direction for Directorate General Civil Aviation to include in the CAR an explicit zero-tolerance policy concerning "unruly/disruptive behaviour", which would mandate reporting to it and to law enforcement, failing which action would be taken against the airlines in all
The IATA, which represents some 300 airlines comprising 83 per cent of global air traffic, said USD 290 million were stuck in Pakistan as of January, which increased by almost a third since December.