Meet to mark first anniversary of Mangalore air crash
Mangalore: Mangalore Air
Crash Victims Families Association will hold a condolence meeting to
mark the first anniversary of the air crash of Air India Express Flight
IX 812, at Sahodaya Hall, Karnataka Theological College, Balmatta, here
on May 21.
The IX 812 flight crashed off Bajpe airport on May 22 last year, killing 158 passengers on board.
18/05/11 Times of India
Lufthansa awaits govt nod to fly A380 to India
Lufthansa
German Airlines which launched the inaugural flight of the Airbus A380 –
the world's largest aircraft – to San Francisco on May 10, is
disappointed that the Indian government's permission to fly the
superjumbo to Delhi has not yet been forthcoming.The company says
that it is in a position to do a quick launch of the A380 to Delhi's T3
terminal, as soon as the government's nod is received. Speaking to a
group of Indian journalists, who were on a trip to San Francisco
sponsored by Lufthansa, Mr Carsten Spohr, CEO, Lufthansa, said: "We
would love to fly the A380 to India, and are waiting for Delhi to open
up”.
Up in the air
It has been around two years since the
government of Germany first approached the Indian government asking it
to allow Lufthansa to fly the A380 to India. Follow-ups including a
recent meeting of the German transport minister with the Aviation
Ministry has not yet had the desired results.
As things stand, the
Indian government seems to be vacillating on whether to open up Indian
skies to the A380. Earlier, in his interaction with journalists in
Delhi, Mr Axel Hilgers, General Manager-South Asia, Lufthansa, said, "We
have received neither a yes nor a no.”Reports suggest that the
government is not yet inclined to let the A380 fly into India. Industry
watchers point out that this could be a result of fears that a
superjumbo like the A380 could eat into the international load factors
of domestic players such as Air India, Jet Airways and Kingfisher
Airlines.
18/05/11 Anand Kalyanaraman/Business Line
Arrest at Cochin airport: police probe LTTE links
The Crime
Detachment Wing of the Aluva Rural Police has launched an investigation
into the antecedents of a suspected former LTTE combatant who was
arrested from the Cochin International Airport here on Tuesday.Jeevadass
Marimuthu, 30, hailing from Jaffna in Sri Lanka, was detained by
immigration officials while attempting to board an Oman Air flight to
Muscat. He was found possessing an Indian passport with his name as
Peter Savari Muthu, Tiruchi, Tamil Nadu.
Jeevadas said he had been on
his way to Paris seeking political asylum. He confessed to obtaining
the travel documents from a passport agent in Tamil Nadu.
Official
sources said the investigating officials had taken him to a hotel in
Kochi where he stayed on Tuesday and collected evidence. Investigation
was also on to trace Guna, the Tiruchi-based agent who had given him the
passport, and another person in Kochi who accompanied him to the
airport.
19/05/11 The Hindu
