Aviation Sector

Air India steward loses job for refusing to trim moustache

Air India steward loses job for refusing to trim moustacheLondon, Apr 2 : An Air India steward was relieved from duties because he declined to trim his moustache even after receiving official warnings.

Joyanth Victor De, 55, who worked as an assistant manager at Air India, was dismissed in September 2000 after he refused to trim his handlebar moustache.

De made an unsuccessful appeal to the Kolkata high court, and then took his case to the Supreme Court, but even there he was not successful.

US airports testing full body scanners

US airports testing full body scannersMelbourne, April 1 :Some American airports are using whole body scanners at security checkpoints, which can penetrate people's clothing.

Developed by New York-based L3 Communications, the scanner has become a cause of concern, with reports suggesting that even underwear is visible in the scans.

Due to this ability of the novel scanner, it is being likened to scanners on the 1990 science fiction film Total Recall, which revealed the bodies of Mars-bound passengers beneath their clothing.

ROUNDUP: European airports to cut pollution, move to biofuels

European airports to cut pollution, move to biofuelsGeneva  - Starting in 2013, up to 100 European airports will take part in a plan to reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions over the continent's airspace by half a million tonnes a year, aviation industry groups said Tuesday.

The plan to the use the so-called Continuous Descent Approach (CDA) for landing, where aircraft fly a smooth approach into an airport rather than the classical stepped approach, announced at the Aviation and Environment Summit in Geneva, would reduce carbon output and fuel usage.

Sahara approaches HC over lapse in installment payments by Jet Airways

Jet, Sahara AirlinesAccusing the Jet Airways for the supposed lapse in payment of installments with regard to the April 2007 takeover of the earlier Sahara Airlines - now JetLite - Sahara India has approached the Bombay High Court.

Out of the Rs. 1,450 crore acquisition deal for Sahara Airlines, Jet Airways had made an upfront payment of Rs. 900 crore, and had agreed to pay annual installments of Rs 137 crore in the course of the next four years beginning 2007.

Royal Air Maroc to launch regional airline

Royal Air Maroc to launch regional airline Rabat, Morocco  - Morocco

British Airways suspends its Kolkata-London direct service

British AirwaysBritish Airways authorities Sunday onwards suspended its direct services from Kolkata to London - practically applying its last year announcement - saying that the route was not making adequate profit! Coincidentally, the same day, Air India resumed its October 2008-suspended service on the Kolkata-London route, via Delhi.

With the last British Airways flight taking off at around 5 a. m. from the Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose International Airport, the carrier's thrice a week service, direct form Kolkata to Heathrow Airport in London, has been scrapped.

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