Arjun Erigaisi had to face involuntary downgrade from business class, rude staff and above all baggage loss.
The airport received emails on late Sunday night targeting British Airways' (BA 277) from Heathrow, Lufthansa's (LH 752) from Frankfurt and IndiGo's 6E 7178 from Kannur.
India's duopoly in the domestic skies -- where IndiGo and Air India collectively control over 90 per cent of the market -- is highly skewed, leaving very little room for new players
According to Hyderabad Airport GMR, British Airways flight 277 and Kuwait Airways flight 373 received the bomb threat. The BA 277 flight travelling from Heathrow to Hyderabad landed safely at 5:25 AM. Following the landing, standard safety protocols were initiated.
The unnamed 24-year-old suspect worked at Terminal 5 at Heathrow Airport and is said to have charged customers GBP 25,000 per trip to abuse a loophole and fly them across the British Airways network without crucial visa documents.
In Hyderabad, airport sources on Monday said, "A bomb threat email targeting Lufthansa flight LH 752 was received at the Hyderabad airport at 18:01 hrs on 15th June 2025."
'There is a shift in what customers are thinking about in the long term and better planned structures are going to emerge as winners.'
Following a significant power outage, operations at the London Heathrow (LHR) have been suspended till 2359 hours (local time) on March 21 (05.30 am March 22, IST).
Addressing close to 700 employees and the leadership team across the Air India headquarters and Air India Training Academy in Gurugram, Chandrasekaran urged them to stay on course, terming the accident the most "heartbreaking" crisis of his career.
British Airways covers over 150 destinations in 75 countries while in India the carrier operates 49 flights a week from London's Heathrow airport to Mumbai, New Delhi, Chennai, Bengaluru and Hyderabad.
The daily flights will be operated by a Boeing 777-200 in a three class configuration offering, flat beds in Club World, World Traveller plus and World Traveller seats.
Under the terms of the agreement, British Airways will hold 55 per cent in the new entity TopCo -- and the rest will go to Iberia.
UK-based British Airways has been slapped a service tax notice by the Revenue Department asking it to pay the balance of Rs 143.5 crore (Rs 1.44 billion) liability on sale of tickets in India between May 2006 and November 2007.
According to industry statistics, about 1,60,000 students from India go abroad for higher education every year.
When the 'god' is angry, look what happens. Sachin Tendulkar, 'God of Cricket' was annoyed and expressed his displeasure on Twitter. Since then, the social networking site is buzzing.
The bureaucrat has alleged that another Indian family was also offloaded as they offered biscuits to the child to console him.
Leading carrier British Airways has posted a loss of 401 million pounds for the year ended March 31, 2009, reportedly its biggest loss in more than 20 years, primarily hit by reduced passenger numbers and high fuel prices.
The earlier aircraft did not have a first class
British Airways became the first global carrier to provide a direct connectivity between London and Bangalore when is first flight touched down at the IT city this morning. \n
The change will affect economy and premium economy travellers.
UK flag carrier British Airways plans to tie up with an Indian domestic carrier in a franchise partnership.
Naomi Campbell has been banned from British Airways for spitting at a policeman in a row over a missing bag. A source said that the decision was important because no ban would have sent a wrong signal.
To provide seamless travel between India and the UK, Air Sahara and British Airways on Thursday entered into a pact to synchronise flight schedules, launch joint fare products and decided to explore ways to have a codeshare agreement in the future.
British Airways resumed flights to and from Heathrow Airport when a walkout by its ground crew ended
Domestic carriers, including newly-launched AirAsia India and regional airline Costa too have lowered their fares through these offers
New Transport Secretary Philip Hammond, who held separate talks with both sides, said the judgement was good news for passengers.
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.
The customer can get a Mumbai-London-Mumbai ticket for Rs 40,943 including all taxes and levies.
The airline said it intends to run a full schedule at Gatwick on Monday and to operate a full long-haul schedule and a "high proportion" of its short-haul programme at Heathrow.
British Airways and Air France said on Thursday they will mothball their fuel-guzzling Concorde fleets at the end of October, ending 27 years of supersonic commercial air travel.\n\n\n\n
Indian classical musician Ustad Amjad Ali Khan's sarod, which he has been playing for the last 45 years, has gone missing while he was returning to Delhi from London by a British Airways flight.
The launch is timed around the festive and holiday season in India and Indian travelers will have convenient flight options from five cities in India to Las Vegas, a press release said. Indian travellers will not only have convenient flight options from five cities but also 45 flights per week to Las Vegas.
The commission took into account the complainant's actual losses and said the sum of pounds 150 the international carrier had paid him for denying him boarding was not enough.
As he took the bow at the end of the Lakme Fashion Week x FDCI show, many in the crowd cheered for him with an inkling that the magic and the beauty they just witnessed on the ramp was perhaps for the last time. But no one in the fashion fraternity thought that Bal would pass away so soon.
The plane's left engine burst into flames on the runway at McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas on Tuesday afternoon while it was about to depart for London's Gatwick Airport with 159 passengers and 13 crew members on board.
Ninety years later, BA counts the country as its second-biggest overseas market after the US.
Talk to any member of the cabin crew on any Indian airline and you will hear the worst horror stories. Almost always, the targets of abuse in the air are female staff members who are called 'servants' or worse, points out Vir Sanghvi.
The BJP also went on to label Kaul a "Pakistani sympathiser" and posted headings of a couple of her writings on X.
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