KOLKATA/NEW DELHI: Travel to and from Dhaka, less than an hour away from Kolkata by air, was grounded Monday after a six-hour airport shutdown triggered by the upheaval in the Bangladesh capital set the stage for a spate of cancellations by airlines and left flyers bracing for the long haul.Indian Railways, too, extended the suspension…
NEW DELHI: Tata Group’s airline merger woes continue unabated. Budget Air India Express – which operates 350-400 flights daily, of which over 250 are domestic and 120 international – is cutting about 40 flights daily till May 13, for now. In a replay of last month’s trouble at full-service Vistara, which is being merged with…
NEW DELHI: Vistara’s pre-merger woes have mounted with “significant cancellations and delays in past few days” now forcing the airline to “temporarily” truncate its schedule. It will deploy wide body Dreamliners and Airbus A321s on domestic route in a bid to clear the backlog of affected passengers.Discontent has been simmering amid Vistara pilots over reported…
