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: Over 2.7 lakh passengers who had booked Vistara flights to travel on and after Nov 12, 2024, — when the airline merges into Air India — have been issued new tickets for travel on AI. However, the Tata Group has confirmed that for the next few months those who had booked Vistara will…
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: Hoax threat calls continue to wreak havoc on Indian carriers. Since late Friday night till early Saturday, three flights of Air India group received threat 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 the origin for…
NEW DELHI: An Air India Express flight IX-196 flying from Dubai to Jaipur, with 189 passengers onboard, received a bomb threat via email in the wee hours of Saturday. However, the authorities have confirmed that nothing suspicious was found after the plane landed at the Jaipur International airport. ‘After a thorough check by the security…
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/ 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: Vistara has issued five “essential steps” that passengers who booked its flights for travel on and after Nov 12, 2024, when the airline merges into Air India. Such passengers will need to verify their booking details and get changed tickets while retaining their original Vistara booking. Since AI old fleet is still a…
