File photo: DGCA chief Faiz Ahmed Kidwai NEW DELHI: The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has directed Indian carriers to send a link to passenger rights along with air tickets. With the massive rise in number of air travellers, with many being first time flyers, DGCA chief Faiz Ahmed Kidwai wanted passengers to be…
NEW DELHI: Delhi woke up to dense fog on Saturday morning as a cold wave gripped the city.The city experienced significantly reduced visibility due to the fog, disrupting flight operations. Fifteen flights were diverted at Delhi airport early Saturday morning between 12.15am and 1.30am due to the low visibility, marking the second consecutive day of…
NEW DELHI: IndiGo’s Delhi-Jeddah flight (6E 63) was diverted to Karachi late on Friday night. It is learnt that the diversion was due to a medical emergency. Comments have been sought from the airline.The aircraft had taken off from Delhi at 9.15 pm on December 13 and it landed in Karachi at 11 pm (all…
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…
