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.
Noting an overcrowding-like situation in Delhi airport yesterday, a senior official in the Ministry of Civil Aviation (MoCA) on Thursday said that the average time for departure immigration at the airport is around 20 minutes, but sometimes it gets delayed due to the rebalancing of manpower.
In the Digi Yatra process, there is no central storage of passengers' Personally Identifiable Information (PII) data, the Ministry of Civil Aviation (MoCA) said on Thursday.
The Delhi High court on Wednesday granted time to the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) to place on record the documents related to the constitution of the appellate Committee looking into the appeals of unruly Air passengers.
Parliamentary Committee recommends that the Ministry of Civil Aviation should focus on the expansion of terminals including the enhancement of the number of check-in counters and security check gates to facilitate the smooth movement of passengers.
The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Transport, Tourism and Culture tabled its report in Parliament on March 13, where it made various recommendations for MoCA.