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Jet Airways (India) Ltd. (532617.BY) will likely announce orders for as many as 200 planes from Boeing Co. (BA) and Airbus, an aviation consultancy said, in what would be the biggest aircraft-purchase order ever by an Indian carrier.The Mumbai-based airline has placed an order last month for 50 of Boeing's newest 737 MAX jetliners and eight or ten 777-300 extended-range planes, Sydney-based CAPA-Centre for Aviation said in report Thursday about India's aviation market.The report was reviewed by The Wall Street Journal.The Boeing order will be announced officially at the air show in Paris, the report said. The weeklong air show starts June 17.Jet is also likely to announce, at the same show, an order for 50 of Airbus's 320 Neo jets for use by its low-cost service--JetKonnect.The report didn't provide the value of the orders.Jet's order for the Boeing 737 MAX planes could range from $4.1 billion to $5.37 billion at catalog prices. The 50 Airbus 320 Neo have a combined list price of about...
More than eighty years after former Tata Group head J.R.D. Tata piloted the first scheduled flight in India, the conglomerate is seeking to re-enter the sector by in...
Air India Ltd. expects to bring back its half a dozen grounded Boeing Dreamliner jets to operation within two months, its chairman said Wednesday, a move that will a...
Etihad Airways needs to revise its deal to buy a stake in India's Jet Airways and it is too soon to say when a final agreement will be struck, the Abu Dhabi airline'...
Kingfisher Airlines Ltd.'s (532747.BY) lenders stand to lose a major part of 70 billion rupees ($1.3 billion) of loans to the carrier as they don't have enough colla...
Kingfisher Airlines Ltd.'s (532747.BY) lenders plan to soon start a process to sell 5 billion rupees ($93 million) worth of shares deposited by parent UB Group as co...
India's Kingfisher Airlines Ltd. (532747.BY) teetered on the brink of collapse Tuesday with its banks saying that they plan to recall loans worth $1.5 billion becaus...
Boeing Co's contract talks with India for military helicopters will be unaffected by planned budget cuts, an executive said on Thursday, a day after the country's de...
Television host Dick Cavett on the impact of further gun legislation.
Indian carrier SpiceJet Ltd. (500285.BY) is in talks with foreign airlines to sell a stake, a person with direct knowledge of the discussions said Tuesday.The talks ...
The chief executive of Air Berlin PLC (AB1.XE) stepped down Monday amid turbulent times for Germany's number two airline, in the red since 2008 and in the middle of ...
Grounded Indian carrier Kingfisher Airlines has failed to present regulators with a clear funding plan under a proposal to get it flying again, the country's aviatio...
Kingfisher Airlines Ltd. (532747.BY) Thursday said it will retain its cap on foreign institutional investments at 3%, a move which analysts see as an effort to ensur...
Qatar Airways is in talks with Airbus to buy up to 15 of the European planemaker's A330 passenger jets, a deal potentially worth $3.6 billion at list prices, citing ...
Companies serving Indian consumers are attracting billions of dollars in foreign investment even as deals in other parts of the country's economy have nearly stalled...
AirAsia Bhd. (5099.KU) will apply to India's aviation ministry by the end of Friday for its clearance to set up a local unit, a senior executive at the Malaysia-base...
Airports Authority of India plans to form a joint venture with local oil marketing firms and airlines to distribute jet fuel across airports in the country, as it se...
India's aviation minister said Tuesday he is yet to receive any application from the AirAsia-Tata Sons joint venture for setting up an airline license in India.Ajit ...
India Wednesday approved a proposal by Malaysia's AirAsia BhD (5099.KU) to initially invest about 800 million rupees ($14.5 million) to start a budget airline in a j...
AirAsia Bhd. (5099.KU) plans to use the AirAsia brand for a new low-cost airline that it plans to set up in India and it aims to invest an initial $15 million in the...
