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Visuals posted by many other passengers show people including children sitting on the floor. New Delhi: A passenger of an Air India flight alleged some people fainted inside the aircraft, which had no air-conditioning, after a delay of over eight hours. Shweta Punj, a journalist, in a post on X, said flight No. AI 183…
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Air India flight AI-179 was scheduled to depart from Mumbai to San Francisco at 4 pm on Friday. Mumbai: Air India flight AI-179 scheduled to depart from Mumbai to San Francisco at 4 pm (local time) on Friday was delayed due to a technical issue and is now rescheduled to depart at 10:30 am on…
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The aircraft was ready for take-off when the crew member spotted the tissue paper. (Representational) New Delhi: Panic gripped a Delhi-Vadodara Air India flight at the IGI airport here after a crew member spotted a tissue paper with the word “bomb” written on it in the aircraft’s washroom, police said on Thursday. The flight was…
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New Delhi: The Air India Express Employees Union, or AIXEU, has written to the Chairman of Air India to express concerns like “growing unrest and dissatisfaction among employees”. In a two-page letter addressed to Natarajan Chandrasekaran, the Chairman of the Tata Sons-owned Air India Limited (of which Air India Express is a subsidiary) to red-flag…
Air India flight. | Photo Credit: ANI Air India will start direct flights from the national capital to Zurich from June 16, and the Swiss city will be the seventh European destination that will be connected by the airline with non-stop services. The four times a week services will be operated by a Boeing 787…
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The engineer could not fix the broken seat, the passenger claimed. A passenger on a Delhi-Bengaluru flight slammed Air India after receiving a broken window seat despite paying additional money for it. The incident happened on Thursday, April 4 when the passenger noticed the broken seat, following which the airline enlisted the help of an engineer. The engineer,…
Vistara airline has more than 1,100 pilots on its rolls. | Photo Credit: Reuters More than one in four pilots in Vistara have not accepted the new pay structure announced in mid-February ahead of the merger with Air India. The integration of the two airlines has also escalated concerns over inadequate manpower and raised questions…
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Vistara’s CEO Vinod Kannan on Saturday asserted that “over 98% of pilots” had signed new contracts entailing a new pay structure, which has been cited by industry sources as a key issue that had led to a spate of recent flight cancellations and delays at the full service airline that is set to merge with…
The DGCA said that Air India failed to conform to its rules on carriage of persons with disability. File The aviation safety regulator, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA), has imposed a penalty of ₹30 lakh on Air India for the death of an 80-year-old passenger from a cardiac arrest after a delay in providing…
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Air India declined to comment and the two chief executives did not respond to requests for comment. NEW DELHI: The chief executives of Air India and Akasa Air have privately exchanged barbs over the poaching of pilots, with the latter accusing its bigger rival of rule violations, provoking a reply that collusion to curb job…
