Air India has refused to reinstate some of the sacked pilot union leaders who led the recent pilot strike, even though many other sacked pilots have been reinstated so far.

The union leaders belong

In a curious turn of events, suspended senior DGCA official A.K.

Former DGCA E.K.

After being shunted out of the DGCA, civil aviation additional secretary E.K.

A furious civil aviation minister Ajit Singh on Tuesday ordered the removal of Director-General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) E.K. Bharat Bhushan and directed that a joint secretary in the ministry, Prashant Sukul, take over the post as an additional charge with immediate effect.

Civil aviation minister Ajit Singh had first wanted Mr Bhushan, a Kerala-cadre IAS officer of the 1979 batch, to be replaced as DGCA a few months ago.

Civil aviation authorities on Sunday ordered a probe after an anti-hijack alarm went off mid-air on a commercial flight of a scheduled Indian carrier from Bengaluru to Delhi on Sunday.

The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC) — headed by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh——has struck down the appointment of a senior IAS officer, Anil Srivastava, as chairman and managing director (

The government is likely to frame rules very soon that will crack down on both excessive airfares charged from passengers by airlines as well as predatory airfares that will ensure a level playing field for all airlines.

Alarm bells rang in the aviation security establishment Sunday after a Kenya-based chartered aircraft flying from Muscat to Dhaka strayed off course and overflew Jodhpur military airspace, sources said.