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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.
Adani Airport Holdings has signed binding agreements to raise roughly $1 billion in primary equity from Temasek, BlackRock funds, Alpha Wave Global and Premji Invest, valuing India's largest airport operator at $18 billion as it targets 200 million annual passengers.
SpiceJet has signed lease deals for 15 Boeing and 5 Airbus A321 aircraft to nearly triple its operating fleet from 11 to about 31 jets in time for the winter schedule, after losing its remaining 737 MAX 8s to lessor repossession.
Avolon will buy and lease back up to seven Boeing 737-8200s from Akasa Air — the Indian carrier's third such deal with the Irish lessor since its 2022 launch, and a sign of how young airlines are financing rapid growth without touching their balance sheets.
Mumbai's Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj airport has begun a 10-month suspension of all dedicated freighter flights to rebuild its cargo apron — pushing nearly a quarter of India's air cargo toward Navi Mumbai and other hubs until May 2027.
NOTAM A476/26 keeps Pakistani airspace shut to Indian-registered aircraft until 24 September, the sixteenth rollover since April 2025. The detours are now a structural cost line for Indian carriers, and they are showing up in network decisions.
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.