MUMBAI: Tata Group-owned Air India (AI) has cancelled about 60 US flights scheduled for the peak travel season of Nov and Dec. Airfares on flights between India and the US are typically high this time of the year, but with the cancellations, fares are set to jump further. This increase will affect fares not only…
Lufthansa LH 756 Frankfurt-Mumbai of Tuesday returned to Germany from over Turkey after Iran launched missile attacks on Israel: (Source: Flightaware) NEW DELHI: With Iran launching missile attacks on Israel late Tuesday night (India time) and the conflict set to worsen, airlines that used to overfly the region are scurrying for safety. Lufthansa’s Tuesday flights…
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…
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: Airline passengers in parts of the United Kingdom and Ireland experienced travel disruption at airports on Saturday due to flight cancellations caused by Storm Kathleen. The storm, named by the Irish meteorological service, is the 11th named storm of the 2023-24 season, impacting flights at airports in Ireland and the UK, including Manchester…
MUMBAI: The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has asked Vistara to follow the relevant regulations pertaining to facilities and compensation it should pay passengers hit by flight cancellations, delays and denied boarding. However, passengers whose flights have been cancelled or delayed have learnt that these norms do not address some of their core concerns….
