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1 week ago | 
thehindu.com | Suhasini Haidar |G. Sampath |K. Bharat Kumar |Jagriti Chandra
U.S. President Donald Trump on April 2, 2025, unveiled reciprocal tariffs in a meeting held at the White House, which are to work as a punishment to countries around the world, including some of America’s closest trading partners. The day of announcing the reciprocal tariff was claimed by Mr. Trump as the “Liberation Day” for America.
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3 weeks ago | 
thehindu.com | Jagriti Chandra |Suhasini Haidar
U.S. President Donald Trump launched a full-scale trade war on Thursday (Wednesday, by U.S. time), announcing massive “reciprocal tariffs”, ranging from 10% to 49%, on U.S. imports from its trading partners around the world, India was not spared, being hit with a 26% tariff on its exports to the U.S. despite ongoing talks for a trade agreement.
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3 weeks ago | 
flipboard.com | Jagriti Chandra |Suhasini Haidar
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
thehindu.com | Jagriti Chandra
Boeing’s new President and CEO Kelly Ortberg is in India this week which is his first international visit since taking over in August. On his agenda are business meetings with Boeing’s customers in the country, along with key government stakeholders as well as employees. Though the visit has been kept under wraps, it is learnt that visits to some of Boeing’s facilities in Hyderabad and Bengaluru are also on his itinerary. He is in India for nearly three days.
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
thehindu.com | Jagriti Chandra
Air India Group, which completes three years of privatisation this month, has recorded the fastest growth in passengers on its far-flung international destinations such as the U.S., Europe and Australia. The airline’s passenger share on routes to North America, Europe, U.K., Australia, Far East Asia and Africa stood at 16% at the time the Tata Group took over the reins of the airline from the government in January 2022.
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Jan 12, 2025 | 
thehindu.com | Jagriti Chandra
Air India Group, which completes three years of privatisation this month, has recorded the fastest growth in market share on far-flung international destinations such as the U.S., Europe and Australia.
The airline’s passenger shares on routes to North America, Europe, U.K., Australia, Far East Asia and Africa stood at 16% at the time the Tata Group took over the reins of the airline from the government in January 2022.
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Jan 11, 2025 | 
thehindu.com | Jagriti Chandra
Hindustan Aeronautics Limited has advised civilian operators to ground the indigenous Advanced Light Helicopter (ALH) Mark-III (Dhruv) until the cause of the last week’s Porbandar crash is identified. The armed forces have already temporarily grounded all their 330 ALHs following the January 5 crash of the Indian Coast Guard’s ALH Mark-III during a training sortie that killed all three crew members onboard. The crew included Commandant Saurabh, Deputy Commandant S.K. Yadav and Pradhan Navik Manoj.
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Jan 11, 2025 | 
thehindu.com | Jagriti Chandra
The global shortage of new aircraft that has disrupted expansion plans for most airlines in the world has also led to an oversupply of pilots at Akasa Air. With Boeing 737 MAX deliveries slowing down in 2024, anxiety among the grounded cockpit crew is rising as their wait to start flying stretches on. Akasa Air has nearly 850 pilots, which is far in excess of the cockpit crew it needs to operate a fledgling fleet of 26 aircraft, according to industry practice.
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Dec 9, 2024 | 
thehindu.com | Jagriti Chandra
Air India on Monday (December 9, 2024) confirmed that it placed an order to purchase 100 more Airbus aircraft, which include 10 widebody A350 and 90 narrowbody A320 Family aircraft. These 100 new aircraft are in addition to the firm orders of 470 aircraft that Air India had placed with Airbus and Boeing last year. The latest order takes the total number of aircraft that Air India has ordered with Airbus over the past two years to 350.
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Dec 6, 2024 | 
thehindu.com | Jagriti Chandra |Soibam Rocky Singh
The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) informed Delhi High Court on Friday (December 6, 2024) that the new norms that provide enhanced weekly rest for pilots and reduced night time flying to help them combat rising fatigue levels could only be implemented from July 2025 in a phased manner. The implementation of the revised rules governing duty and rest hours for pilots has already been delayed by over six months.
