NEW DELHI: The civil aviation ministry, concerned over the recent string of hoax threats about bombs on flights, is taking a fresh look at old suggestions of the Bureau of Civil Aviation and Security (BCAS) such as putting individuals behind hoax threats on ‘no-fly’ list for five years and revisiting the Aircraft Act, 1934 –…
NEW DELHI/ MUMBAI: Hoax threat messages continue to wreak havoc on flights of Indian carriers, with at least 13 aircraft affected on Thursday.While Air India got a threat for five flights – Mumbai-London (AI 129), Delhi-New York JFK (AI 119), Chennai-Singapore, and two domestic flights – on Thursday, IndiGo and Vistara received threats for two…
NEW DELHI: Just over half the 2,000 plus flights that IndiGo operates daily flew on time Saturday (October 5) when the airline suffered a massive system outage that led to serpentine queues across airports with boarding cards being issued manually. The Union aviation ministry’s data shows the impact the outage had on IndiGo on time…
NEW DELHI: Airport systems across India were restored at 3am Saturday after a 17-hour global outage caused by a software fault in computers running MS Windows. However, a large backlog of cancelled and delayed flights, along with undelivered baggage, means full normalisation may take a couple of days.“Flight operations are going smoothly now. There is…
NEW DELHI: Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) is in talks with aviation ministry to set up a unique museum to display, besides air travel journey, how the aviation sector has learnt from past mistakes to make flying safer. “AAIB proposes to set up its investigation facility at a wide body hangar by leasing the same…
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…
