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One year CTC of a trainee pilot now stands at Rs 50,000 per month while a senior commander will earn Rs 8.50 lakh per month.

Nearly 1.21 crore passengers were carried by the domestic airlines in February 2023 as against 76.96 lakh during the same period last year.

Directorate General of Civil Aviation chief Arun Kumar has said that the Indian Aviation sector is absolutely safe and there is no need to panic amidst the rising technical snag incidents in planes.

The new aircraft is the first of the six that Vistara has purchased from Boeing. The second Dreamliner aircraft is currently on the production line and will be delivered soon.

The cities restricted from airline services include Amritsar, Srinagar, Chandigarh and Jammu.

IndiGo, with a fleet of 131 Airbus planes, connects 44 destinations.

No-frills carrier IndiGo on Wednesday said it is in preliminary discussions with Qatar Airways to explore a marketing collaboration but termed as "baseless" reports of the airline offloading stake to the Gulf carrier.

Gulf carrier Qatar Airways on Tuesday said it is in talks with IndiGo, the largest Indian airline by market share and set to rest speculations that it is looking for a partnership with SpiceJet.

'oneworld' is open to partnering with an Indian airline, including a no-frills carrier, the CEO of the lobal airline alliance has said but dismissed any pressure from competing grouping Star Alliance that roped in India's flag carrier Air India.