Airlines urged to follow Indian rules for security checks

October 6th, 2009 Airlines ordered to test, disinfect onboard waterWASHINGTON — Federal regulators are issuing final rules requiring airlines to test and disinfect the water served to passengers and used in plane lavatories. The Environmental Protection Agency rules set out how frequently airlines must flush and disinfect the water systems on planes and test for coliform bacteria, which are associated with disease-causing germs.

September 17th, 2009 DOT to fine Spirit Airlines up to $375,000WASHINGTON — The Transportation Department said on Thursday it will fine Spirit Airlines as much as $375,000 for breaking consumer rules. The civil penalty includes $215,000 that the small discount airline must pay right away, and another $160,000 it would have to pay if it breaks its agreement with the Transportation Department in the next year.

September 8th, 2009 DOT releases airline delay list for AugustThe percentage of airline flights in August that arrived within 15 minutes of schedule, according to the U.S. Transportation Department: 1.

August 26th, 2009 3,900 stimulus checks went to prison inmatesWASHINGTON — The federal government sent about 3,900 economic stimulus payments of $250 each this spring to people who were in no position to use the money to help stimulate the economy: prison inmates. The checks were part of the massive economic recovery package approved by Congress and President Barack Obama in February.

August 3rd, 2009 NEW DELHI - Even with the private airlines calling off their planned protest of August 18, the Union Government has stood firm and ruled out any financial bailout for them. Speaking to the reporters here on Monday Union Minister of State for Civil Aviation Praful Patel said, "There is no question of a financial bailout for private airlines." He also made it clear that the government would not bail out Air India.

July 29th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Union Civil Aviation Minister Praful Patel said on Wednesday airlines operating from India should follow the law of the land while frisking passengers in airports. Referring to the recent controversy over the frisking of Former President A.P.J.

July 25th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Saturday deplored the frisking of former President APJ Abdul Kalam by US based Continental Airlines at the Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi. "This should not happen.

July 24th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Backing Continental Airlines on the controversial screening of former president A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, the US agency responsible for security of US transportation systems has made it clear that it cannot accept an Indian list exempting VIPs from security checks.

July 23rd, 2009 NEW DELHI - Reacting to former president APJ Abdul Kalam's statement that he has not received any communication from Continental Airlines, the US-based airline today said that they want to apologise personally to him. "Since he is not in Delhi, we are waiting for him to return so that we can apologise personally to Dr.

July 22nd, 2009 NEW DELHI - A day after the Government ordered a probe into the frisking of former President Dr.A.P.J. Abdul Kalam at the Indira Gandhi International Airport in the capital, the guilty Continental Airlines formally apologised.

July 21st, 2009 NEW DELHI - Former president APJ Abdul Kalam was recently frisked by an international airline at Delhi's Indira Gandhi International Airport. Kalam was travelling to the US about a month ago on Continental Airlines when the incident happened.

July 21st, 2009 NEW DELHI - A First Information Report was filed here on Tuesday against the Continental Airlines' concerned staff for frisking former President A. P. J. Abdul Kalam at the Indira Gandhi International airport in April for breach of protocol.

July 21st, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Government of India has slapped a show cause notice to the US-based Continental Airlines for violating guidelines, in the wake of airliner's "unpardonable" act of frisking of former President A P J Abdul Kalam at the Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi. "Not only the preliminary inquiry has been ordered but we also have a preliminary report on the basis of which the Continental Airlines has been issued a show cause notice why action for wilful violation should not be taken," Civil Aviation Minister Praful Patel said the Rajya Sabha on Tuesday.

April 17th, 2009 SILIGURI - The security forces at Bagdogra airport in West Bengal were thrown into a tizzy when a caller claimed that a bomb had been planted in an Indian Airlines flight, the police said Friday. A man called the airport and said a bomb was planted in the Guwahati-Bagdogra-Delhi Indian Airlines flight number 879 that was scheduled to land here around 3 p.m.

February 17th, 2009 COLOMBO/NEW DELHI - A Sri Lankan aircraft maintenance firm has bagged the contract to conduct sophisticated checks on aircraft of Indian budget carrier IndiGo in what experts believe could trigger similar moves by other carriers in the subcontinent. IndiGo said Wednesday it has awarded an aircraft maintenance contract for 'C' checks to SriLankan Engineering, the aircraft maintenance arm of the country's national carrier SriLankan Airlines.