Delhi based value carrier SpiceJet announced a special offer to commemorate Children’s Day. Children under 12 years of age will fly free on all bookings done on November 13 and 14, 2009. Only the statutory charges ranging between Rs 229~Rs 604 will be charged. A special bag of goodies await all children who fly any SpiceJet flight on November 14, …

Boeing delivered to Korean Air the carrier’s 25th 777, a 777-300ER (Extended Range) registration HL7784. It also marks the first 777 delivered to Guggenheim Aviation Partners who will lease the aircraft to Korean Air. Guggenheim is scheduled to take delivery of an additional five 777s.Image courtesy Boeing

In the hours following the crash of Kingfisher Airlines ATR-72-500 VT-KAC at Mumbai yesterday, as usual the mainstream media went on a feeding frenzy with all kinds of speculative reports, most of which are completely inaccurate. Kingfisher Airlines has been forced to issue a statement in an attempt to quell these wild speculations. Normally Bangalore Aviation does not reproduce complete …

Last month on 9th October returning from a business trip, I boarded Thai Airways flight TG236 a nice Boeing 777-200ER registration HS-TJS from Hat Yai bound for Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi International Airport. Normally this one and a half hour flight is a rather uneventful, even boring experience, but this flight turned out to be anything but that, and with some valuable …

A Kingfisher Airlines Aerospatiale ATR-72-500, registration VT-KAC performing flight IT-4124 from Bhavnagar skidded off the runway and crashed at Mumbai’s Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport (CSIA) at 16:40 local (11:10Z). 42 passengers and 4 crew were evacuated safely, no injuries occurred to the passengers and crew. It appears the plane overran the runway, skidded and came to rest on soft ground …

I am frequently asked “what is the joying of spotting?” to which I reply “each aircraft has a history and a story to tell. At first glance there is nothing out of the ordinary about this photo of Srilankan Airlines Airbus A320-232 registration 4R-ABH arriving at Bangalore. This is the ONLY -232 in the UL fleet. So what? one might …

Dubai based Emirates airlines is undertaking a major expansion of it’s capacity adding 17 flights per week to Bangkok, Sydney, Manila and Jakarta. This represents a massive 13% increase in seat capacity and takes the airline’s operations up to 187 flight per week. Starting December 2009, Emirates will introduce a fourth daily service to Bangkok, a third daily service to …

The new dedicated Freighter variant of the Airbus A330 Family, the A330-200F took to the skies today for a four hour maiden flight over Toulouse, France, marking the start of a 180 hour flight-test and certification campaign, prior to delivery to launch operator, Etihad Crystal Cargo, in the summer of 2010. The new A330-200F is designed as a medium sized …

On October 29th I was very surprised to see this Malaysia Airlines Boeing 737-800 departing for Kuala Lumpur in the evening, since the flight is scheduled around 01:00 at night. Click on the image for a larger view. We were informed that the Captain suffered a severe case of diarrhoea while operating the incoming flight. Since the flight between Kuala …

On October 29th Bangalore hosted a tri-lateral summit on terrorism between the foreign ministers of Russia, China, and India. Russian foreign minister then departed for Moscow on Rossiya Airlines presidential fleet Ilyushin Il-96-300PU. Click on the images for a larger view. See more photos on JetPhotos and on Flickr

UPS has released an iPhone based application for tracking and managing shipments on the road. The UPS Mobile App for iPhone offers the following features. Track – See recent tracks and assign shipment nicknames, when you log-in with your My UPS ID. Or track by number with no log-in required. Ship – Log-in with your My UPS ID to access …

We were leaving for the day and something made me look up. Along came this Indigo Airlines plane and I scrambled to get my camera and take this picture. This is IndiGo’s newest aircraft VT-IGH, having joined the fleet just last month. The IGx series of registrations from A-G have been taken up by the Indira Gandhi flight academy. Click …

The last month of airplane has been eventful to say the least. This week we feature unusual or rare aircraft and events from Bangalore. Memories of Air India always invoke visions of The Maharajah, and no aircraft in the Air India fleet symbolises it better than the Boeing 747. Air India was one of the earliest adopters of the Jumbo …