NEW DELHI: An Air India Express flight IX-196 flying from Dubai to Jaipur, with 189 passengers onboard, received a bomb threat via email in the wee hours of Saturday. However, the authorities have confirmed that nothing suspicious was found after the plane landed at the Jaipur International airport. ‘After a thorough check by the security…
An Ayodhya-bound Air India Express flight on Tuesday received a bomb threat, which was sent via phone call for the IX 765 flight that flew from Jaipur at 12.25 pm.“Air India Express flight makes emergency landing in UP’s Ayodhya airport following bomb threat”, airport director Vinod Kumar told news agency PTI.The Boeing 737 Max8 aircraft…
NEW DELHI: India’s low cost carrier (LCC) space is in for a major rejig with Tata Group‘s mega Air India Express coming into being on Oct 1, 2024, when the process of merging erstwhile AirAsia India into it gets completed. The combined entity, with 7,000 employees, as of now has 84 aircraft (mainly Boeing 737s…
NEW DELHI: Air India Express is celebrating India’s 77th Independence Day with the launch of its “Freedom Sale“, which is exclusively available on the airline’s website and offers Xpress Lite fares starting at Rs 1947.Customers can book their tickets until August 5 for travel until September 30, 2024, on both domestic and international flights. Sharing…
NEW DELHI: The global Microsoft cloud services outage on Friday caused significant inconvenience for passengers at Bengaluru airport, leading to long lines at the check-in counters of all major airlines as their systems were unable to process check-ins. Indigo, Air India Express, SpiceJet, and Akasa at Bengaluru airport started checking in passengers manually on after…
KOCHI: The crisis in Air India Express is deepening. The airline had to cancel over 400 flights in the last 12 days after employees who went on mass sick leave agreed to rejoin duty, reported.In a letter to the chief labour commissioner, Air India Express Employees Union (AIEEU), affiliated with Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh, attributed the…
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Amrita (25) never thought that she would find herself in a quandary at Thiruvananthapuram International Airport on May 8 after hospital authorities in Oman asked her to quickly take a flight to see her critically-ill husband one last time. Now, the woman from Karamana in Thiruvananthapuram is grappling with a tragedy due to the…
Air India Express flights cancellation: Air India Express, the budget carrier of Tata Group, is grappling with ongoing challenges amidst the airline merger process. The airline, which operates between 350 and 400 flights daily, including more than 250 domestic and 120 international routes, has announced a reduction of approximately 40 flights per day until May…
No early relief for Air India Express passengers? Air India Express plans to curtail flights over the next few days as well, its CEO Aloke Singh has said amid cabin crew woes. Singh has said that the flight curtailment being done to cope with non-availability of crew, recover schedules.“Since last evening, more than 100 cabin…
Air India Express flight cancellation: AI Express has cancelled around 80 flights since Tuesday-Wednesday midnight, with around 300 cabin crew members taking en masse sick leave. If your flight has been cancelled by Air India Express, then the airline has said that a full refund will be offered or an option to reschedule flight to…
