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Close on the heels of IndiGo’s latest 37-50% hike in domestic fuel surcharges, other airlines have raised or introduced fuel surcharges as sustained increases in Aviation Turbine Fuel (ATF) prices add to operating costs. Air India and Air India Express have revised domestic fuel surcharges to ₹400-₹1,200 and introduced international surcharges of $55 for West…
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New Delhi: Hindon, which has become the second airport to function from the National Capital Region, will vault into the big league with the initiation of daily flights to and from Kolkata. Currently small airlines operate on short routes from Hindon. But Air India Express — a subsidiary of Air India and a part of…
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Air India CEO Campbell Wilson. New Delhi: Under fire for faltering service standards, staff disputes and severely dated aircraft interiors, Campbell Wilson, the MD and CEO of Air India told NDTV that the revival of the airline will take a few more years to complete. “The Economist called this the Everest of corporate turnarounds,” said…
Singapore: Singapore Armed Forces on Tuesday scrambled two fighter jets to escort an Air India Express plane away from populated areas following a bomb threat before the aircraft landed safely at Singapore’s Changi airport. The Air India Express plane operating flight IX 684 from Madurai to Singapore had received a bomb threat. Singapore’s Defence Minister…
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On the ground, preparations had been made for an emergency landing. New Delhi: A report of hydraulic failure from a Tiruchirappalli-Sharjah Air India Express flight and its subsequent holding pattern for over two hours may have caused panic on the ground, but things were always under control inside the cockpit, senior sources from the airline…
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The Air India Express flight was going from Tiruchirappalli to Sharjah. An Air India Express flight going from Tiruchirappalli to Sharjah has landed safely at the Tiruchirappalli airport after facing a hydraulic failure. The flight, which was scheduled to go to Sharjah, has 144 passengers aboard. Several ambulaces and rescue sevices are present at the aiport. …
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The Tiruchirappalli to Sharjah flight had 144 passengers on board. An Air India Express flight which reported a hydraulic failure shortly after take-off from the Tiruchirappalli airport in Tamil Nadu has landed safely. The flight, AXB 613, which was headed to Sharjah with 144 passengers on board, had taken off at 5.40 pm. After the…
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The outage, attributed to an update by CrowdStrike, disrupted Microsoft’s Windows systems. New Delhi: Airports across India are still grappling with issues from yesterday’s massive Microsoft outage. Although the situation has improved significantly since Friday’s chaotic scenes, passengers continue to face challenges, particularly at Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGI). At Delhi’s IGI Airport’s Terminal…
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A woman was unable to see her husband before his death due to AI Express flight cancellations. Thiruvananthapuram: In a heartbreaking incident, a woman, whose husband was in a hospital ICU in Oman, was unable to see him one last time before he died there due to the cancellation of her Air India Express flight…
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