New Delhi: The DGCA has issued a show cause notice to Air India after some passengers fainted while waiting hours — in vain — onboard an aircraft without air-conditioning in sizzling Delhi for their San Francisco (SFO)-bound flight to take off on Thursday. Even after being allowed to alight, they had to wait at IGIA’s…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Thursday said no writ petition can be filed against Air India as it has ceased to be a public body after Tata group owned Talace India purchased 100% equity in the airline in Jan 2022.A bench of Justices B R Gavai and Sandeep Mehta gave this ruling while answering a…
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…
NEW DELHI: Former Jammu and Kashmir CM Ghulam Nabi Azad was one of the flyers who got stuck after his Delhi-Srinagar Air India Express flight got cancelled on Wednesday. Expressing discontentment over the inconvenience caused, Azad said, “Air India should be shut down again”, further adding that it has a “bad culture”.“If the flights have…
NEW DELHI: Air India will resume its services between Delhi and Tel Aviv with five weekly flights from May 16, 2024, the airline said Friday. AI had suspended this route after the October 7, 2023, attack on Israel and had resumed the same on March 3. And then the route was again suspended on April…
NEW DELHI: Air India’s lounge at Delhi Airport’s T3 (international side) will be closed for a complete revamp from Friday (April 19). A new lounge — much bigger than the existing one — will open in its place in about a year, say AI officials. “During this time, first and business class passengers and Flying…
Delhi airport saw ten flights to Dubai and nine incoming flights from Dubai cancelled on Wednesday. Air India, operating 72 weekly flights from various Indian cities to Dubai, had to cancel flights due to adverse weather conditions in the Gulf nation. Other airlines, including Air India Express, Vistara, IndiGo, and SpiceJet, also saw disruptions in…
NEW DELHI: The worsening Iran-Israel conflict has triggered pockets of turbulence in air travel, with Air India tweaking the timings of a few of its ultra-long-haul flights and temporarily suspending sorties to and from Tel Aviv.Pilots are reporting a spurt in GPS signal jamming and spoofing in the conflict region, prompting route planners to constantly…
NEW DELHI: Air India on Sunday temporarily suspended flights to Tel Aviv amid escalating tensions between Israel and Iran. An official said that the direct flights between Delhi and Tel Aviv will be suspended for now.Air India runs four weekly flights connecting the national capital to an Israeli city. The Tata group-owned airline resumed Tel…
NEW DELHI: Your flying time to and from Europe and UK will increase by anywhere upto an hour, likely sending airfares northward too.Air India, Vistara and foreign airlines have started avoiding overflying Iranian airspace due to the looming threat of Iran attacking Israel, which US President Joe Biden expects may happen “sooner than later”. IndiGo,…
