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: Thursday yet again saw big Indian carriers getting threats for over 80 flights, after a brief respite on Wednesday. Sources across airlines say the same handle targeted flights. Under the newly changed protocol, such mass threats from the same handle are treated as non-specific to minimise disruptions by not requiring diversions.“We confirm that…
More than 70 flights of several Indian airlines received fresh bomb threats on Thursday, according to news agency PTI sources.Sources have revealed that around 20 flights each from Air India, Vistara, and IndiGo, as well as 14 flights from Akasa Air, have received bomb threats. Over the span of 11 days, nearly 250 flights operated…
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…
NEW DELHI: Multiple flights of Indian carriers continue to get threat messages on Sunday too, with no end in sight to this menace that is disrupting schedules, bleeding airlines and inconveniencing passengers in the peak festive travel season. Airline statements have stopped giving counts as the number keeps mounting. For instance, Akasa said “some” of…
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: 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/ 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…
