Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Wednesday in a letter to Union Civil Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindiya requested authorization for the operation of charted flights from Gulf countries to the state during Onam festival.
Civil aviation fleet in India has risen 75 per cent since 2013-14 to about 700 and is likely to rise towards 1500-2000 in the next half a decade, said Union civil aviation minister Jyotiraditya Scindia a day after Indigo announced the 500 aircraft mega deal with Airbus.
Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel on Sunday wrote a letter to the Union Civil Aviation minister Jyotiraditya Scindia requesting him to take prompt action to add Bilaspur city to the UDAN-5 scheme.
Terming his remarks "ill-informed" and shocking" Union Civil Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia on Sunday shot back at the senior Congress leader KC Venugopal for hitting out at the Centre over "skyrocketing airfares" and said Indian economy is in the pink of health.
Scindia said, "Whatever the governments have done in the past 68 years, the Modi government has done it in nine years. The number has reached from 74 to 148. We aim to make in 200-220 in the next five years including heliports and water aerodromes".
Leader of Opposition in Kerala V D Satheesan on Sunday wrote a letter to Union Civil Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia and sought direct flight services from Kerala to Middle East and other countries as well as to take steps to curb the skyrocketing air ticket prices during the festive
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin in a letter to Union Civil Aviation Minister Jyotiraditiya M Scindia urged for the re-introduction of direct flights between Tokyo and Chennai. and for increasing the number of flights between Singapore and Madurai.
Lauding the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led central government upon completion of nine years in office, Union Civil Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia on Monday said that during this period India's image has changed from "colonial to self-reliant".
Union Civil Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia speaking during the inauguration of Civil Enclave of Kanpur Airport on Friday said it was a long pending demand for expansion and modernisation of the Kanpur Airport which got fulfilled today.
A video of the incident has also come to fore in which the union minister could be heard saying, "Generally, higher class people take advice from the bureaucracy only. But the bureaucrats do not know the ground reality better than our grassroots leaders, sarpanch and councillors know."
Tripura government on Saturday arranged a special flight to bring back stranded students of the state from violence-affected Manipur. The development came after Chief Minister Prof Dr Saha on Saturday spoke to the Union Civil Aviation minister Jyotiraditya M Scindia and requested special air