Civil Aviation Minister  

Air France will be operating 28 flights between Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru and Paris from July 18 to August 1, civil aviation minister Hardeep Singh Puri said

Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) conducted safety audits only to find it deficient in five airlines

In 2006, the then civil aviation minister Praful Patel went out of his way to bat for the Naresh Goyal-led airline. He was called 'a minister for Naresh Goyal' and for a minister to bat for a private company and so openly was unprecedented.

The government on Tuesday called an emergency meeting with Jet Airways management to contain the crisis. The meeting took place after civil aviation minister Suresh Prabhu intervened and asked the secretary to take stock of the situation.
 

Kerala chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan and Civil Aviation minister Suresh Prabhu on Sunday inaugurated the Kannur international airport. Kannur international airport has made Kerala the only state in India to have four airports.