New Delhi: The DGCA has issued a show cause notice to Air India after some passengers fainted while waiting hours — in vain — onboard an aircraft without air-conditioning in sizzling Delhi for their San Francisco (SFO)-bound flight to take off on Thursday. Even after being allowed to alight, they had to wait at IGIA’s…
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…
NEW DELHI: What is the maximum number of alcoholic drinks that can be served in-flight to passengers to keep them sober to prevent incidents like the ones on two Air India flights in Nov-Dec 2022 where inebriated persons ended up allegedly urinating on co-passengers? Responding to a petition by a 72-year-old woman who was urinated…
MUMBAI: The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has asked Vistara to follow the relevant regulations pertaining to facilities and compensation it should pay passengers hit by flight cancellations, delays and denied boarding. However, passengers whose flights have been cancelled or delayed have learnt that these norms do not address some of their core concerns….
NEW DELHI: Sleeper Coach has a new definition now: Any railway passenger can occupy anyone’s seat and simply sleep. This troubling trend came to fore again after a post on social media platform X went has gone viral.A traveler on the sleeper coach of the Bhuj-Shalimar Express voiced concern about the excessive crowding caused by…
I was relaxing in my seat at the rear of the aircraft, listening to a song on the headphone, when I felt a sudden jolt. Instinctively, I turned left and looked out and spotted a red-coloured tip of the plane’s wing fall off! I looked in horror and realised the IndiGo plane that had just…
