Australian cricket star David Warner experienced a unusual flight delay with Air India in New Delhi on Saturday. Warner and other passengers were made to board an aircraft that had no pilots, leading to hours of waiting time.“We’ve boarded a plane with no pilots and waiting on the plane for hours. Why would you board…
Air India is considering a substantial new order for wide-body aircraft from both Boeing and Airbus, according to industry sources, as part of its ongoing transformation under Tata Group’s ownership.The discussions are for 30 to 40 aircraft, divided between Airbus A350 and Boeing 777X models, with possibilities of exceeding 50 aircraft. Sources indicated to Reuters…
MUMBAI: A potential security threat received enroute had an Air India flight operating from Mumbai to New York to divert to Mumbai on Monday. The Boeing 777 aircraft was over Azerbaijan at 30,000 feet altitude when it changed course to divert to the airport of origin. The aircraft with 303 passengers and 19 crew members…
NEW DELHI: An Air India aircraft en route from Chicago to Delhi had to return to Chicago after flying for more than ten hours on Thursday due to technical issues.However, according to PTI sources, the flight had to return because numerous toilets were non-functional.According to flightradar24.com, the Boeing 777-337 ER aircraft returned to Chicago’s ORD…
NEW DELHI: Air India is sacking a simulator trainer pilot for failing “to properly discharge his duties during recurrent simulator training for pilots”. Ten pilots trained by this individual have been taken off flying duties.“Recently, a whistleblower alleged that a simulator trainer pilot had failed to properly discharge his duties during recurrent simulator training for…
NEW DELHI: The list of passengers peeved at Air India‘s yet to be fixed cabin product got its most high profile entrant on Saturday when Union agriculture minister and former Madhya Pradesh CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan was allotted a broken seat on a Bhopal-Delhi flight Saturday. When the minister inquired how a broken seat can…
There’s a saying in old Latin: Post-woke, ergo properly broke, whose English translation is once you go woke, you go broke. One kids. There’s no such saying in Latin. It’s just an alliteration of the popular logical fallacy: Post hoc, ergo propter hoc, which means drawing causality based on chronology. Jokes aside, “once you go…
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Tuesday directed the Centre and aviation regulator DGCA to develop guidelines to address unruly air passenger behavior, stressing on the need for “something creative” in handling such incidents, according to news agency PTI. A bench comprising Justices BR Gavai and KV Viswanathan was hearing a plea from a 73-year-old…
NEW DELHI: In a major security breach, Air India on Saturday reported the discovery of an ammunition cartridge in the pocket of a seat on a flight from Dubai to Delhi on October 27. The cartridge was found on flight AI916 after it had landed at Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport, with all passengers safely…
MUMBAI: Air India announced the cancellation of over 60 flights scheduled to operate between India and the US during the peak travel season of November and December.The airline stated it informed the passengers concerned, giving them options including a free change of date, booking them on partner airlines, or offering a refund. The news caused…
