Luggage is an important part of one's travel. While airlines now see an opportunity in ensuring safe passage for the bags, customers are sufficiently covered by statutes and conventions that ensure their rights.

Just when corporate and personal air travel seemed poised to bounce back to pre-pandemic levels, the surge in infections and consequent restrictions imposed by states have hit lucrative routes like Mumbai-Delhi-Mumbai although flights to non-metro destinations…

Customers have been scrambling for last-minute tickets and many are chasing airlines for refunds. In the domestic market, travel agencies are seeing up to 90 percent of their customers cancelling travel plans for the summer.

The countries that have banned passengers from India include United Kingdom, Canada, Hong Kong, New Zealand, UAE, Kuwait, Indonesia, Netherlands and Australia.

There was security screening, but it wasn’t anywhere near as intrusive. There were no long checkpoint lines. Passengers and their families could walk right to the gate together, postponing goodbye hugs until the last possible moment. Overall, an airport experience…

A total of 3,27,923 passengers travelled on 2,372 flights within India on Sunday, as the threat of COVID-19 eases in the country and passengers start travelling given the festive season.

The US Embassy further said that starting November 8, nearly three million visa holders from India, who have been vaccinated against COVID-19, will be able to travel to the United States under the new international air travel policy.

Airlines say the caps on fares for travel within 15 days of booking are preventing them from unbundling services such as preferential seat allotment and meals from the base fare and proving to be a deterrent in their effort to improve operating efficiencies.…

Air India’s sale to the Tata group was the headline of the year, but it was just one headline in many that the aviation sector made in 2021 with its air bubbles, capacity and fare caps, SpiceJet’s legal woes, the launch of flyBig, unveiling of Akasa Air,…

There is an overlap in the destinations that both foreign partnerships operate to India.

India has about 17,000 pilots. It’s the first time in one-and-a-half decades, when aviation was in a boom phase, that pilots are expected to be in such high demand.

Other benefits include a complimentary flight voucher worth Rs 500 with every sale fare booking for next travel and a flat 25 percent instant discount on add-ons

The drop comes amid the dwindling daily passenger footfall, as the surge in COVID-19 infections has led to the re-imposition of curbs in several states.

Air travel data for December suggests that when Covid-19 cases subside, people board flights in droves to holiday destinations and temple towns