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Woman pilot? Won't fly!

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New Delhi: A Mumbai-bound flight was delayed by one-and-a-half hours at the Delhi airport on Friday morning - first by fog and then by a passenger who did not want to travel on a plane piloted by a wo

'Air trains could speed up travel'

Montreal: "Shall we take the eight o'clock air train to Paris?" It may sound strange to say now, but such jargon is likely to become commonplace someday - if aviation futurists are right in their pred

Hyderabad, Delhi airports ranked best

New Delhi: Hyderabad's Rajiv Gandhi International Airport has been ranked first and Delhi's Indira Gandhi International Airport the fourth in an international ranking of the best airports in the world

The birth of a new Boeing jumbo

Seattle, Washington: Boeing Co has rolled out a new jumbo jet, hoping to relive the glamor of the birth of the 747 over 40 years ago and use it to boost slow sales.

The 747-8 Intercontinental will se

Ailing Air India delays salaries again for 30,000 staff

Mumbai: Citing cash crunch, Air India today delayed for the second time payment of salary to its 30,000 employees for the month of January.

The national carrier, which had earlier said that the sa

India holidays attracting LGBT crowd

New Delhi: As the government legalised homosexuality in India two years ago, tour operators in the country are trying to sell India as the ultimate tourists destination for gays and lesbians.

A secti

Thai airline recruits the 'third sex'

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Bangkok: A newly launched Thai airline has adopted a policy of recruiting transsexuals as flight attendants in an effort to offer equal opportunities to the 'third sex', company sources said on Tuesda

'Dubai's paradise isles are sinking'

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London: Experts have warned that the luxury islands in Dubai shaped like countries of the world are sinking into the sea.

They told a tribunal that the man-made project off the coast of the oil-rich

IndiGo to start overseas flights

New Delhi: Budget airline IndiGo will start international operations in August, the company said in a statement, a week after it placed an order for 180 new aircraft.

The aviation ministry has approv

'Delhi Metro will be bigger than London's'

Kamal Nath on Thursday took over as Urban development minister with an amibitious plan of giving a boost to urban transportation for which he intends to expand Delhi Metro network to make it bigger than its London counterpart by 2017.

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