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IndiGo has quietly increased charges for infant travel, excess baggage, priority boarding and unaccompanied minors from September 17, with analysts saying the airline is turning to ancillary revenue to cushion fuel-cost pressure.
India's civil aviation minister told Parliament the government and DGCA are closely tracking SpiceJet's finances and operations, as new data shows the carrier's domestic market share has slid to just 1.6% while staff say salaries have gone unpaid for months.
Malaysia Airlines flight MH156, an Airbus A330-200 flying Kuala Lumpur to Jeddah, made an emergency landing at Chennai on September 7 after its right-hand engine developed a mid-flight fault; all 186 people aboard were unhurt and DGCA has opened an investigation.
Ahmedabad joined Varanasi and Amritsar as the third city under India's Hub-and-Spoke aviation strategy on September 1, letting international travelers clear immigration once, before boarding, instead of again in Delhi.
An Air India A320 lost 250 feet in seconds over India on August 4, injuring more than a dozen people after an autopilot disconnect and a stall warning — and the captain's psychoactive substance screening has now triggered a confirmatory retest.
India's regulator is preparing to lift mandatory random psychoactive-substance screening of airline crew from 10 per cent to more than 25 per cent a year, weeks after an Air India captain returned a positive confirmatory test. Pilots want saliva testing and procedural safeguards added at the same time.
India's aviation regulator has published the findings of eight special safety audits of Himalayan helicopter operators, exposing gaps from unmonitored pilot fatigue to broken emergency plans — and revealing how far high-altitude oversight still has to climb.
Three of the world's biggest aviation markets take radically different approaches to compensating disrupted passengers. Here is a practical guide to what you are owed — and how to claim it — under US DOT rules, EU261 and India's DGCA regime.
India's AAIB has told Parliament the Boeing 787's fuel control switches showed no defect, and the Supreme Court has been told the final AI171 report is due in October 2026. The remaining questions are the hardest ones.