Two pilots and eight crew members of a Jet Airways flight were suspended on Saturday after 14 passengers sustained injuries when emergency evacuation was carried out following a suspected fire in the aircraft in Mumbai. After a preliminary probe, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation indicated "serious procedural lapses" in the emergency procedures carried out on Friday night by the cockpit and cabin crew, took them off duty and later suspended them.
Eight-month-old pregnant Kuljeet Kaur from Amritsar boarded Air India's Delhi-Toronto flight along with her husband from IGI airport at midnight.
A 42-year-old flight attendant and a 47-year-old cabin services supervisor -- both unidentified -- of Emirates Airline were convicted of "coercion to commit sin" after sending each other sexually-themed SMS messages, the National newspaper reported court documents as saying.
The two Boeing 787s, which were to take off for their destinations just 10 minutes apart on Thursday, had to be replaced with new planes which flew the passengers to their respective destinations, they said.
Intelligence Bureau officials are investigating how Khan Khalid Rashid, a Pakistani pilot working for Ethihad Airlines, was allowed to leave Thiruvananthapuram airport after his flight landed on May 6.Indian law does not permit Pakistani aircraft, Pakistani pilots or cabin crew to land in any airport in the country, except in New Delhi, Mumbai and Kolkota. Pakistani crew members and pilots in other airports across the country have to stay inside the retiring rooms.
12 cosplayers reveal what they do when they are not in their costumes.
Thoughtful talent management during a downturn separates good performers from the ordinary, says Kanika Datta.
The Delhi Poice has confirmed the molestation of the cabin crew by Air India pilots Commnader Ranvir Arora and his co-pilot Aditya Chopra. This was confirmed by Joint Commissioner of Police (Operations) Satyendra Garg according to Delhi Police PRO, Assistant Commissioner of Police, Rajan Bhagat.
Als0 looking to make its staff accountable for delay in operations
All the 23 players of leading Goan football club Churchill Brothers flying on a SpiceJet plane from Goa to Kolkata on Tuesday were offloaded at Mumbai airport after three of them allegedly misbehaved with an airhostess and some cabin crew members.
IndiGo, India's largest airline, is in talks to raise fresh funds as a second wave of pandemic has led to collapse in travel demand. The airline may look to raise Rs 3,500-4,000 crore. On Monday, only 97,761 passengers flew. With flyers cancelling bookings, airlines had to put aside flights and operated only 1,306 of them.
"In view of the statements of the cabin crew attendants and other circumstances, at this stage, it cannot be held that there are reasonable grounds that the accused has not committed the alleged offence," Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Rajesh Kumar Goel said.
The flight arrived at Wuhan's Tianhe International Airport on Friday evening. While the official number of students to be airlifted in the two flights is not known, Indians who reached the Wuhan airport on Friday said they were told that 374 were expected to be airlifted by the Air India flight. India has taken an undertaking from the Indians travelling in the two flights that they would be quarantined for 14 days after their arrival, besides undergoing special checks at the Wuhan airport.
The Mumbai police on Wednesday claimed to have evidence of involvement of three players of Churchill Brothers, Goa's leading football club, in the alleged molestation of an airhostess on board a SpiceJet flight on Tuesday night and said they would file a charge sheet against them within three months.
Air India, often at the receiving end for one reason or another, on Tuesday got a boost when celluloid icon Amitabh Bachchan praised it after flying on one of its flights to Tamil Nadu.
The British Airways said it was exploring "all options" to cope with the impact of the strike, but millions of holiday-makers are expected to face disruptions and the prospect of having journeys cancelled.
British Airways is facing a fresh wave of strikes after its cabin crew union won a dramatic court victory, clearing the way for 15 days of industrial action, commencing on Monday.
Low-cost carrier IndiGo on Wednesday said it plans to hire up to 1,500 people this year to support its major expansion drive.
DGCA convenes meeting to discuss rules for safety operations.
The average age should be around 35 years, the sources said, adding those older should be shifted to ground operations.
The flight from Dubai with 190 people, including a six-member crew, overshot the tabletop runway during landing at the Kozhikode airport in heavy rain on Friday, killing 18 people, including both the pilots.
An employee's job status cannot be downgraded on being transferred, the Delhi High Court has said while quashing Air India's decision of demoting a cabin crew member after she was transferred from Mumbai to Delhi.
Airlines are slashing salaries and re-negotiating vendor contracts as drastic fall in passengers has hurt revenue. Go First has cut staff salaries by around 16 per cent while IndiGo and SpiceJet are enforcing a leave without pay (LWP) policy and pay by the hour structure respectively to prune expenses. Vistara, which reversed pay cuts for junior staff including managers and cabin crew in March, is not touching employee salaries at the moment and instead focusing on vendor renegotiation and maximising cargo revenue. An Air India executive said efforts are on to pay salaries by 7th or 8th of June.
'All they need is proper leadership.'
The carrier, which fired 1,900 employees in October only to reinstate them under pressure from various quarters, has made the request to pilots, cabin crew and engineering staff, a source in the airline said on the condition of anonymity. It is, however, not clear what the airline proposes to do if the employees do not agree for a voluntary pay cut.
National air carrier Air India is believed to be toying with the idea of hiring some of the laid-off Jet employees, as it would save time and cost on training.
Kingfisher Airlines is conducting walk-in interviews for Flying Model positions on July 6 and July 7.
After all, the employees did not flock to the Shiv Sena-run union but to Raj Thackeray despite the fact that many of the sacked employees were not Marathis. These non-Maharashtrians, going by the Raj Thackeray-led Maharashtra Navnirman Sena, were those who came and usurped the local's share in Mumbai's and Maharashtra's economy.
The Kingfisher group has launched a training academy in Mumbai for those of you aspiring for a career in the airlines industry.
Come mid-April, India's largest private airline, Jet Airways, will don a fresh look. The Naresh Goyal-promoted airline will have fresh internal and external livery for aircraft to reflect its new corporate image.
'We have seen some videos wherein mediapersons are standing too close to each other in the 6E264 flight on Wednesday. It seems to be a violation of safety and social distancing protocols'
The airline is currently conducting the exercise to have 30-50 pilots and 50 cabin crew on board in the next few days. It became the third largest carrier by flying 4,41,000 passengers in November with a market share of 14.7 per cent.
In a judgement, which has deep relevance for the posting and career of employees of merged airlines, the Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld the government policy regarding the absorption of the staff of erstwhile Vayudoot in Indian Airlines in 1993.
"Unless he tenders an unconditional apology to AI employees, and undertakes in writing to abide by the Chicago and Tokyo Conventions & Rules of the Air and follow all cabin safety and public behaviour norms, we must not let him on board," says the letter.
The airline is strengthening its flight operations department to make this happen.
When the Boeing-737 reached the height of about 5,000 metres after taking off at 1725 hours, the cabin crew on the rear of the plane informed the pilot that they could hear 'a hissing sound and see the sky through one corner of the door'. The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) suspended at least two cabin crew members of the Delhi-Mumbai flight (9W362), official sources said in New Delhi on Saturday.
A senior official in the central labour commissioner's office said the efforts of the government were to resolve the cases amicably and not to press for legal action against employers. "Everyone is going through tough times. We could initiate legal action if we want but that's not the idea. We want to address the issues amicably," the official said.
In its petition, the association alleged that the procedure followed by the Union Government for the merger was not proper and was illegal. A new company, National Aviation Company of India Ltd was incorporated in March this year as promoter of the new brand and the merger would take two years to become effective.
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