NEW DELHI/PANAJI: The deluge of anonymous online hoax threats causing turbulence in airline operations since mid-Oct continued Sunday, affecting over 50 flights operated by various carriers amid futile attempts by the govt to get social media platforms to filter such messages.IndiGo alone received “security-related alerts” for 18 flights through the day, of which two –…
NEW DELHI: Over 25 aircrafts of different airlines received bomb threats on Friday afternoon, PTI reported quoting sources. This included over seven flights each from IndiGo, Vistara, and SpiceJet which had received threats, while six flights from Air India were targeted.The IndiGo flights that received bomb threats include: 6E 11 (Delhi – Istanbul), 6E58 –…
New Delhi: Close to 50 flights have received bomb threats so far on Tuesday, with the menace only getting worse by the day. Officials across airlines say the trend of threats is changing with different handles targeting different airlines in past 2-3 days. Earlier the same handle would issue same number of threats to multiple…
Eight flights to and from Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport received bomb threats on social media over the weekend. Security checks found nothing suspicious. Six were international flights and two were domestic. NEW DELHI: Eight flights to and from Indira Gandhi International Airport in Delhi received bomb threats on social media on Saturday. An airport…
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…
Air France and Gemany’s Lufthansa have both suspended flights to Tel Aviv and Beirut amid rising tensions following Israel’s airstrikes on Lebanon. Air France announced the suspension of its flights scheduled for Sunday and Monday, with a possibility of further extensions depending on the situation in the Middle East. Lufthansa, meanwhile, has extended its suspension…
KOLKATA: With the 15-year-old govt now ousted, there was a rush among Bangladeshis on Tuesday – several of them cooped up in Marquis Street for weeks – to return home and be a part of the unfolding history in the country’s 53 years of existence. For the lucky 314-odd Bangladeshis, who were the first to…
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…
Delta Air Lines continues to struggle for a fourth consecutive day following the CrowdStrike tech outage, which most airlines have already recovered from. Delta’s CEO announced it would take “another couple days” to overcome the worst of the disruptions, while the airline’s CIO revealed on Monday that they are still working on repairing a critical…
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…
