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…
NEW DELHI: Hoax threat messages continue to wreak havoc on flights of Indian carriers. While Air India got a threat for five flights — Mumbai-London (AI 129), Delhi – New York JFK (AI 119), a Chennai-Singapore and two domestic on Thursday, — IndiGo and Vistara threats for two flights each. AI Express is also learnt…
NEW DELHI: At least seven more flights received hoax threat messages on Wednesday, bringing the total number of affected airliners to nearly 20 in the past three days. An IndiGo Riyadh-Mumbai flight (6E 74) was diverted to Muscat on Wednesday, and its Mumbai-Delhi flight (6E 651) to Ahmedabad, while Akasa’s Delhi-Bengaluru flight (QP 1335) returned…
NEW DELHI/MUMBAI: A rash of bomb threats on social media disrupted at least 10 Indian flights the past two days, prompting diversions and security checks. Flights such as Air India‘s Delhi-Chicago and IndiGo‘s Dammam-Lucknow were diverted Tuesday, following Monday’s diversion of AI’s Mumbai-New York flight. All threats were later confirmed as hoaxes.Authorities intensified their crackdown,…
NEW DELHI: Hoax bomb threat messages have made it a maniac Monday for three international flights of two Indian carriers and close to 600 passengers onboard. Since any threat is taken very seriously, one flight — Air India Mumbai-New York was diverted to Delhi — and two others delayed for being checked thoroughly before being…
NEW DELHI: Just over half the 2,000 plus flights that IndiGo operates daily flew on time Saturday (October 5) when the airline suffered a massive system outage that led to serpentine queues across airports with boarding cards being issued manually. The Union aviation ministry’s data shows the impact the outage had on IndiGo on time…
NEW DELHI: IndiGo passengers are facing long waiting at airports for check-ins and baggage drops on Saturday as India’s biggest airline (by domestic market share) is facing a network-wide system outage. “We are currently experiencing a temporary system slowdown across our network, affecting our website and booking system. As a result, customers may face increased…
Shark Tank judge Anupam Mittal has responded to Indigo CEO Pieter Elbers’ post celebrating two years of being in India and Indigo. In a LinkedIn post, Elbers wrote “Being a part of IndiGo and now living now in India for two years….IndiGo and this beautiful country India have indeed become a part of me. Bharat…
