NEW DELHI: Govt has issued a strict advisory to social media companies such as X and Meta, warning them to take immediate action to curb the spread of hoax bomb threats targeting flights or face criminal and penal consequences under BNS and IT Act.Over the past two weeks, nearly 400 flights operated by Indian carriers…
Security personnel keep a vigil after a flight made an emergency landing at the airport following an alleged bomb threat, in Jodhpur.(PTI) NEW DELHI/MUMBAI/KOLKATA: Indian carriers continued to grapple with a wave of bomb hoax threats for the sixth straight day, disrupting flight schedules and causing inconvenience during the busy festive travel season. More than…
NEW DELHI/MUMBAI: The aviation sector faced an unprecedented wave of hoax bomb threats Saturday, with 30 to 40 flights across Indian carriers and five Delta Air Lines flights being targeted. This marks the highest number of threats in a single day, adding to the disruption the industry has endured over the week since Monday.The hoaxes…
NEW DELHI: Hoax threat are pouring in since late Friday night and 29 flights across Indian carriers had got such messages till Saturday afternoon. The situation is getting to a point where a big metro airport is running out of remote bays for parking aircraft that get threats for checks. “Since Friday night we have…
NEW DELHI: Hoax threat calls continue to wreak havoc on Indian carriers. Since late Friday night at least eight flights of Air India Group (3) and IndiGo (5) have got such messages.Vistara‘s Delhi -London flight diverted to Frankfurt and after a thorough check the aircraft proceeded to its destination. Air India’s Newark-Mumbai was delayed at…
NEW DELHI: In yet another case of threat being received on social media, Vistara‘s Delhi-London flight of Oct 18 was diverted to Frankfurt late on Friday night. Flight tracking sites show the Boeing 787 landed Frankfurt at 9.02 pm (local time). After being thoroughly checked and getting security cleared, it took off from there 2.5…
NEW DELHI: Microsoft global outage has affected the check-in systems used by Indian carriers including IndiGo, Akasa and SpiceJet since 10.45 am Friday — leading to slower processes and long queues. Industry sources say other airlines like Air India Group are so far not affected. Airports are also affected.IndiGo, India’s largest airline by passenger carriage…
