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Air India To Fly Vistara’s A320 Planes On 5 Key Domestic Routes

November 28, 2024 admin

Either a Boeing 777 or Airbus A350 aircraft will be deployed for the services. New Delhi: Optimising its network, Air India on Wednesday said it will deploy erstwhile Vistara’s A320 planes that offer best narrow body cabin products on five key metro-to-metro routes, including Delhi-Mumbai and Mumbai-Hyderabad. The Tata Group-owned airline, which has embarked on…

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Air India Flight From Paris Diverted To Jaipur, Fliers Sent To Delhi On Bus

November 19, 2024 admin

The flight was diverted to Jaipur on Monday. (Representational) New Delhi: The diversion of a Paris-New Delhi Air India flight to Jaipur and the pilots’ refusal to fly further after completing their duty hours sparked chaos on Monday as several passengers were left stranded for many hours and ultimately sent to the national capital by…

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Air India Passengers Claim Stuck In Phuket For 80 Hours

November 19, 2024 admin

Over 100 New Delhi-bound passengers of an Air India flight have been stranded in Thailand’s Phuket for over 80 hours now after several delays due to technical faults, according to multiple posts put out by passengers on social media. NDTV has reached out to the airline for a response, but it is yet to get…

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Vistara Ground Staff’s Emotional Farewell To Last Flight

November 12, 2024 admin

Vistara merged into Air India on November 12. New Delhi: Ground staff and crew members at Odisha’s Biju Patnaik International Airport bid an emotional goodbye to the last Vistara flight on Monday. The Delhi-bound flight was the full service carrier’s last before its merger with Air India. The first flight of the integrated Air India-Vistara…

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‘Sky Is Just The Beginning’: Vistara Bids Goodbye

November 11, 2024 admin

Singapore’s flagship carrier announced a plan to merge Vistara and Air India in November 2022. New Delhi: The song ‘Kal Ho Na Ho‘ played as Vistara’s Goa-Bengaluru flight landed at its destination on Sunday, invoking nostalgia among crew and members a day before the carrier’s time in the Indian aviation landscape was to come to…

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P Chidambaram Slams Flight Delay

November 5, 2024 admin

New Delhi: Senior Congress leader P Chidambaram slammed Air India today, pointing to a delay in the Delhi-Chennai flight he was taking. Accusing the new management of incompetence in a post on X, formerly Twitter, he wrote: “I regret that there has been practically no improvement since the management changed hands from the government to…

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Air India To Cancel Nearly 60 Flights On India-US Routes In November-December: Report

October 30, 2024 admin

Affected customers have been ioffered flights on other Air India group services. (Representational) Mumbai: Non-availability of aircraft due to maintenance issues has forced Tata Group-owned Air India to cancel some 60 flights on the India-US routes between November and December this year, according to an airline source. The flights, which have been cancelled during the…

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Flight Bomb Threats, Ram Mohan Naidu: “Bomb Hoax Calls To Flights Made By Minors, Pranksters”: Aviation Minister

October 17, 2024 admin

A 17-year-old was taken into custody by the Mumbai Police on Wednesday. New Delhi: With the number of flights that have received hoax bomb threats in four days crossing 25 on Thursday, Union Civil Aviation Minister Ram Mohan Naidu has said initial investigations do not point to a conspiracy and that most of the calls…

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Air India Mumbai-New York flight diverted to Delhi after bomb threat

October 14, 2024 admin

Image for representational purposes only. | Photo Credit: AP An Air India flight operating from Mumbai to New York was diverted to Delhi on Monday (October 14, 2024) following a bomb threat, airport sources said. “The aircraft is currently stationed at the Indira Gandhi International Airport, and all standard safety protocols are being diligently followed…

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How Air India Express Pilots Handled Mid-Air Scare Over Trichy

October 11, 2024 admin

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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