IndiGo and other airlines have said they are improving their staff training, looking at better ways of communication and customer awareness on operational matters.
A London-bound Air India aircraft on Saturday safely returned to Delhi after being airborne for 30 minutes as the pilot detected smoke in the cabin. Full emergency was declared at the airport when the pilot informed the Air Traffic Control about the smoke alarm. The measures included stationing of fire brigades, ambulances, ladders and other emergency equipment close to the runway to avert a possible mishap.
A shortage of pilots and cabin crew is one reason for flight delays.
Apparently, the losses to the airline due to this scam are now running into crores of rupees.
'It is very clear that Air India cannot be managed by the government.' 'Air India should be run as a separate profit entity.'
After the debacle of the first episodes of Season 6, the latter half give an even-handed treatment to intriguing not-so-well-known events of Queen Elizabeth II's reign, observes Vaihayasi Pande Daniel.
The Wadia group-owned airline is building a new management team and putting in place strategies for efficient operations. Leading the change is Cornelis Vrieswijk, the airline's new chief executive officer.
Maya Warrier, 9, satisfies a little of her wanderlust when she journeys across the world to Vietnam, some 10 hours by flight from her home in London.
Munna Kumar, the accused train ticket examiner (TTE), has been arrested, a Government Railway Police official said on Tuesday.
In a letter to Executive Director (Operations) of Air India, ICPA General Secretary Captain S Sabu said that the political situation in Kabul has been deteriorating and that the NATO forces have launched a major offensive against insurgents in the region.
'This whole story is going to become extremely murky and that discovering who is an agent of the Indian government is not necessarily a simple matter.' 'And that if Trudeau was to name (the person) who he thinks is the connection with the Indian government, that the Indian government will be sure to have some deniability and will be able to say he had nothing to do with us.'
The airline would hire 100 cabin crew for the aircraft.
The United States air force nuclear command has been rocked by the worst cheating scandal in proficiency exam involving 34 officers at the inter-continental missile launch of the global strike command, the Pentagon has said.
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.
Infighting among pilots might impact Air India's 787 flights
The move if implemented, will be a temporary measure to protect both consumers and airlines. A section of airline executives and experts, however, warned that any intervention in pricing would be counterproductive.
India on Thursday approved proposals for purchasing 26 Naval variant of Rafale jets from France and procuring three French-designed Scorpene class submarines, a day ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's wide-ranging talks with French President Emmanuel Macron in Paris.
In an interview to rediff.com's Vicky Nanjappa, Mohammad Beary, who represents the victims as president of the Mangalore Air Crash Victims Family Association, explains the manner in which Air India has been trying to settle the dues without adhering to the Montreal convention.
The navy has also found some of the passengers' belongings and was sweeping the area in search of the plane's black box, the military said.
A SpiceJet spokesperson said, 'On May 1, SpiceJet Boeing B737 aircraft operating flight SG-945 from Mumbai to Durgapur encountered severe turbulence during descent which unfortunately resulted in injuries to a few passengers.'
Air India said that none of the 153 passengers and six crew were injured during evacuation.
Airline flight attendants reveal the craziest requests they have received from passengers!
'There was not a moment when the guns were out of action.'
All 40 passengers on the flight are safe.
A video on Twitter showed one of the plane's engines on fire and sparks flying at the time of taxiing at the airport.
commercial airlines and air navigation service providers have to carry out random drug tests on at least 10 per cent of their flight crew and air traffic controllers every year.
Rescuers on Monday recovered 20 bodies from the wreckage site of the Tara Air plane that crashed in Nepal's mountainous Mustang district on Sunday with 22 people on board, including four Indians, minutes after taking off from the tourist city of Pokhara, officials said.
The pilots have been "derostered" pending investigation, Air India Express later said in a statement.
The Air India pilots strike was called off on Tuesday night after the Delhi High Court asked them to join duty within 48 hours and the management to sympathetically consider their grievances.
A SpiceJet spokesperson said that after take-off from Jeddah, ATC informed the pilots that tyre pieces were found on the runway.
Jet Airways conducted its test flight to and from the Hyderabad airport on Thursday in a step towards obtaining the air operator certificate. Jet Airways, which has not flown since April 17, 2019, is currently in the process of re-launching operations under its new promoters Jalan-Kalrock Consortium. On Thursday, the airline's CEO Sanjiv Kapoor said on Twitter that the test flight's operation was a very emotional moment "for all the wonderful folks who have been working hard to get Jet back in the skies".
The accident occurred at 7:45 pm while the pilot was attempting to land the B737 Air India Express from Dubai at the tabletop runway of the Karipur International Airport.
The pilots' flying privileges have been withdrawn for leaving the cockpit unattended and thereby jeopardising flight safety, a senior DGCA official said on Tuesday.
This is at least the ninth incident of technical malfunction on a SpiceJet aircraft in the last 40 days.
By Friday, two of these Boeing 787 Dreamliner planes would be test-flown several times daily between Delhi and Amritsar so that the pilots and cabin crew get the experience of several landings and take-offs.
Air India Flight 136, bound for Delhi via Frankfurt, took off at 2033 local time (1003 IST) and blew at least one of the tyres
Four French Rafale fighter aircraft and a contingent of about 70 French airforce personnel on Saturday landed at Jodhpur airbase to participate in the 10-day long joint air exercise "Garuda-5".
5 AI's Dreamliner pilots left the airline to join other carriers without serving the mandatory six-month notice period
The vessel 'La Place', which is belonging to the French Naval forces and is participating in the search for the plane that crashed last month, has picked up signals coming from deep in the sea and believed to be from one of the black boxes of the plane, which crashed into the Mediterranean, a statement from the committee investigating the crash said.
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