When India's aviation sector began liberalizing in 2003, a regional powerhouse was unleashed.
Air India has reached broad agreement with a consortium of 26 banks to restructure Rs180bn ($3.45bn) in debt and keep the loss-making state-owned carrier airborne, an Indian official said on Tuesday.
From his neatly-trimmed goatee to his love of fast cars and flight, it's not hard to see why Indian industrialist Vijay Mallya is often referred to as his country's Richard Branson.
New Yorker Marsha Sharpe, 31, travels constantly for her corporate music business SongDivision -- logging trips to Turkey, South Africa and across America. But she's no longer flying business class. "Economy has become the new black," says Sharpe.
The plane crash in China Tuesday was at least the ninth major deadly airline crash since January 2009.
Irish officials and ambassadors gathered on Ireland's southern coast Wednesday to mark the 25th anniversary of the Air India bombing that killed all 329 people aboard.
A strike against Air India that stranded thousands of passengers Wednesday ended hours later when union officials called it off.
Authorities have recovered the data recorder from the charred wreckage of the Air India plane that crashed in the southern Indian city of Mangalore over the weekend, police said Tuesday.
CNN's Sara Sidner leads us down the road to the site of a plane crash in India.
An Air India plane carrying 165 passengers crashed in Mangalore, India, CNN-IBN reports, citing an airline spokesman.
Searchers continued sifting through twisted metal, charred debris and tattered clothing in a ravine in southern India Monday, looking for the missing piece investigators hope will explain what went wrong in a deadly plane crash.
CNN's Sara Sidner speaks with a woman who survived the Air India plane crash.
"Banchao! Banchao!" Save me! Save me!
Air India took two pilots and two cabin crew off-duty over allegations that they had a fist fight during an international flight with 106 passengers aboard, the state-run airline said Monday.
CNN's Richard Quest asks Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee if the India still needs to stimulate the economy.
Air India strike
updated: Fri Jul 03 2009 07:28:00
Employees of India's national carrier - Air India - stage a nationwide strike. CNN's Sara Sidner reports.
About 13,000 employees at state-run Air India walked off the job for two hours Friday after the airline failed to pay their monthly wage.
Flight attendant Sheela Joshi is 5 feet, 4 inches and 148 pounds.
Too fat to fly?updated: Wed Jun 11 2008 06:16:00
Indian Airline hostesses are grounded because of their weight. Are they really too fat to fly? CNN's Sara Sidner reports.
Representatives of Canada, India and Ireland joined victims' relatives Thursday to remember 329 people killed when an Air India jetliner was blown up off the southern Irish coast 20 years ago.
The board of India's state-owned international airline, Air-India, approved an order to purchase 50 Boeing aircraft worth $8 billion Tuesday, Boeing executives in Mumbai confirmed to CNN.
Money Magazine: April Buysupdated: Sun Apr 01 2001 00:01:00
High-season sale
Naina Lal Kidwai has ridden a flair for numbers to become India's most important investment banker in its most important investment bank in what may become its most important industry--information ...
Want to fly round trip from Washington, D.C. to Rome for $500? It would cost $800 to $1,229 on TWA. Or how about New York to Paris for just $380, instead of Pan Am's ''bargain'' $548? Tempting, huh...
Fortune: Fear of flyingupdated: Mon Jul 22 1985 00:01:00
The busy summer travel season couldn't have got off to a worse start for airlines. The hi-jacking of TWA flight 847 and the rash of terrorist bombings in airports have led some people to think twic...
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