Singapore Airlines separately announced that after the merger, it now holds 25.1 per cent stake in the expanded Air India.
Vistara will operate its final flight on Monday and will integrate with Air India from Tuesday.
With rising air traffic and changing travel patterns, many no-frills airlines are dominating the skies worldwide and India's dominant carrier is IndiGo.
The merger of Vistara with Air India will mark a major consolidation in the fast-growing Indian aviation space.
Hub airports refer to large airports, often in major cities, that handle high aircraft and passenger volumes.
As part of this exercise, Vistara chief executive officer Vinod Kanan, who has also been holding the role of Chief Integration Officer for the merger of the two entities, will continue in the latter role post-merger.
As Jet Airways emerged as the major challenger to government-owned carriers Indian Airlines and Air India, Goyal purportedly made efforts—using his clout and network in the government and among politicians—to ensure that his airline charted a course of rapid growth
SBI initiated insolvency proceedings against Jet Airways before NCLT, Mumbai, in 2019.
An analysis of airline-wise international passenger traffic data from the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) for April-June (Q1) shows that Indian airlines’ cumulative market share strengthened to 45.6 per cent from 43.9 per cent a year ago.
This comes at a time when Indian airlines have been hit by scores of fake bomb threats—mostly posted on social media platform X from anonymous and unverified accounts—over the past three weeks.
The airline also announced that it will launch in the coming weeks inflight wi-fi service on international flights operated by the A350.
The total scheduled international passenger traffic from and to India in Q1 was 1.77 crore flyers, 13.3 per cent higher on the year and 13.5 higher than the corresponding period of 2019.
The airline plans to offer nearly 1 million seats in India by 2025.
Tata Technologies said that its deep experience working with leading aerospace original equipment manufacturers will be crucial in the process.
This is the first instance since late last year of the airline reporting a reduction in grounded aircraft.
Speaking at the same event, Civil Aviation Minister K Rammohan Naidu reiterated the government’s ambition to design and manufacture commercial aircraft in India, and said that Airbus has a role to play in that endeavour.
The rejig will not be limited to just the domestic network of the enlarged Air India, and would include international routes as well where currently both Air India and Vistara operate. Slots at certain international airports are also being adjusted accordingly.
While security protocols could still be underway for a few flights affected on Tuesday, all threats over the past 11 days turned out to be fake.
The strike has deprived the company of much-needed cash that it gets from delivering new planes to airlines.
Air India customers will be able to access 29 destinations across SIA’s network.
With the merger taking effect on November 12, all Vistara aircraft and flights will be transferred to and operated by Air India.
The total number of such threats has crossed 170 over nine days.
The Pune to Bangkok flight will operate three times a week.
The bomb threat messages were received at the Bengaluru airport command centre via an anonymous account on X.
Most of the threats received by airlines on Sunday came from an anonymous and unverified account —@schizophreniqqq— on social media platform X, per sources in the know. The account was later suspended by X.








