Civil Aviation Minister Kinjarapu Rammohan Naidu on Friday announced 'Udaan Yatri Cafe' (air passenger cafe) scheme for providing affordable refreshments at airports while creating employment opportunities in the country.
Ten years ago I wrote a book titled “The End of Airports” about how digital technologies and commercial air travel were on a collision course.
This is being seen as a major step in building international aviation hubs in India. The meeting delved into solutions derived from studying international airport models such as those of Singapore and Canada.
Eight airports in France were forced to evacuate over security reasons, according to media reports.
According to officials, after an evaluation of the success of full-body scanners at these four airports, the facility will be extended to other airports in due course.
The government is mulling bringing the responsibility of operation and maintenance of new airports under the ambit of the Karnataka State Industrial and Infrastructure Development Corporation (KSIIDC), official release from the large and medium industries ministry stated on Saturday.
On 7 July 2021, Scindia was appointed as the Union minister of civil aviation in the Modi Government after a Cabinet reshuffle in July 2021.
Tamil Nadu's health department has said that the state has maximum XBB variants of Omicron and till now no variant of BF 7, which is causing the new wave of Covid-19 in many countries, has been detected in the state.
The airlines were also asked to place real-time data on their social media feeds regarding waiting times at respective airports' entry gates.
The list of airports not having night landing facility also include airports like Kullu and Dharamsala in Himachal Pradesh, Bilaspur and Jagdalpur in Chhattisgarh, Kalaburagi in Karnataka, Kolhapur and Sindhudurg in Maharashtra and and Ludhiana in Punjab among others.
