Air India's fourth Boeing 777-200LR, scheduled for delivery in the second week of December, has not reached the airline. A shortage of commanders for the new generation aircraft will probably delay it further.
The Kapil Dev-led Indian team, which won the 1983 World Cup, left for London on Tuesday to celebrate the silver jubilee of their historic triumph at Lord's. The entire team, barring Ravi Shastri, left for the British capital where Sunil Gavaskar has organised a dinner to celebrate 25 years of the victory on Wednesday.
Pilots will strictly go by the roster and perform all "stabilised approach
Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived in Dhaka on Friday on a two-day visit to Bangladesh during which he will attend the celebrations of the golden jubilee of the country's independence, the birth centenary of 'Bangabandhu' Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and hold talks with his counterpart Sheikh Hasina.
American Airlines, the world's largest airline, on Friday, signed a code-share agreement with Air Sahara for its daily nonstop service between Chicago O'Hare International Airport and New Delhi
Air India's NY flight has been fitted with modern facilities to ease the long air travel for the passengers.
Air India will be saving $150 million over 15 years by mounting advanced General Electric engines GE90-115B on its 27 Boeing 777-300ERs aircraft.
National flag carrier Air India has raised $500 million (nearly Rs 2,250 crore) from ABN AMRO-led banking consortium to make pre-delivery payment to US-based aircraft manufacturer Boeing Company.
Most Indian businessmen I speak to place a huge premium on the ability to move now and block the space. It's happening in aviation, the media, commodities and finance, to list a few sectors.
An Air India Boeing 777 flight carrying 313 people on board returned to Newark airport in New Jersey, US, soon after take off following a bird hit that damaged its left engine.
Air India on Tuesday announced daily non-stop flights between Mumbai and New York beginning August 1.
The Air India board has cleared a proposal for sending its pilots on deputation to its budget arm, Air India Express, which has been facing shortage of commanders for some time now.
Air-India on Saturday launched a new long haul flight from Delhi connecting Dhaka, Kolkata and London, with Minister of State for External Affairs E Ahamed saying it would go a long way in strengthening Indo-Bangla relations.
In its bid to grab Air India orders, US aircraft manufacturer Boeing on Tuesday said it had offered a "comprehensive competitive pricing" to the public sector carrier, whose decision to purchase 50 aircraft of different makes was yet to get governmen
India's flagship carrier Air India on Wednesday signed a landmark agreement with the American aerospace giant Boeing Commercial Airplane for the purchase of 68 aircraft at an estimated cost of Rs 35,000 crore.
Malaysia Airlines on Friday announced it will operate 11 extra Boeing 777 flights between Kuala Lumpur and Mumbai under the open sky policy for two months from January apart from introducing special fares for senior citizens.
As many as seven passengers aboard the Boeing 777 Pakistan International Airlines flight PK-743 (Karachi-Madina) on January 20 were forced to stand throughout the over three-hour flight after the airline boarded excess passengers, Dawn newspaper reported.
Singapore Airlines on Monday offered air tickets to Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Penang and Bangkok from Kolkata at a promotional fare between July 22 and August 19.
Air Sahara on Thursday announced its plans to fly daily services between Delhi and London from September-October this year and operate two Boeing-777s on this route.
Air-India is to link Delhi and Kolkata with Dhaka and London with a Boeing 777 thrice a week from next month.
In a cruel twist of fate, an Australian family who lost two of their members in the MH370 crash learned on Friday that two more from their extended family were on the ill-fated Malaysian plane shot down over Ukraine.
Aeroflot will resume services from Moscow to Mumbai five times a week with effect from January 24 with TU 214 aircraft.
A Boeing support team has arrived to help Air-India in the induction of a Boeing 777 jet into the fleet, even as the airline board is expected to take a final decision on the acquisition of a 50 aircraft fleet next month.
Taking benefit of the limited open sky policy of the government, Singapore Airlines is mounting additional services to India between December and January, increasing its seat capacity by over 11 per cent.
Singapore Airlines intends to operate double daily flights to India once the open sky policy is in place even as it has decided to introduce three additional day-time flights to Mumbai from October 26.
Air-India has taken three Boeing 777s on lease for a five-year period beginning December 2004.
The Delhi-based airline currently has 13 Airbus A320 aircraft in the fleet and it plans to take another seven (A320 Neo) planes by June 2018.
Rescue workers have so far recovered 181 bodies scattered over a vast area in eastern Ukraine even as pro-Russia rebels on Friday said they have recovered the black boxes from the wreckage of the Malaysian plane blown up by a missile, killing all 298 people on board.
Air India is seeking government approval to raise a Rs 2,000 crore loan and refinance $819 million aircraft debt, which would help tide over the financial crisis.
Total revenue dropped to Rs 5,406 crore in the first quarter of the current financial year from Rs 5,508 crore in the same period a year ago
This is an exceptional case of extension beyond the 330-day limit under the insolvency and bankruptcy code.
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