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'No Sane Pilot Would Shut Off Fuel'

'It's absolutely absurd to suggest pilots intentionally shut off fuel.' In the first of a two-part interview with Prasanna D Zore/Rediff, Air Marshal Sanjeev Kapoor (retd) challenges the......

'Who Was Flying AI 171 When Mayday Was Called?'

'Who tried engine relight?''If the first officer was the one flying at takeoff, the captain may have taken control immediately post-thrust loss.''But the AAIB report doesn't clarify any of this.'......

Mahatma Carter

Carter was in politics, but not a politician, certainly not a transactional politician. Carter bears not a small resemblance to another leader of another large country, who was also in politics but......

Mother who fled to India from US charged with son's murder

The mother of a six-year-old boy who fled to India from the US in March this year has been indicted by a grand jury on several new charges including capital murder. IMAGE: Kindly note that this......

Amid Covid spurt, China to reopen for foreign travellers from Jan 8

Come January, China will practically abandon its three-year-old zero COVID policy and its international isolation, fully opening its airports and ports for travel and trade amid the massive......

23 inches! That's the seat space in this airline

Next time you complain of cramped seats in train or airline, think twice. If an Italian company has it's way, and low-cost airline opt for it, soon the seats in such planes will have no more than......

Airlines to travel agents: Pay on time or face suspension

The newly introduced billing system may not go well with travel agents who have always been at loggerheads with airlines on extention of credit limit. Airlines including Jet Airways, IndiGo and......

Airline delays could become a way of life

Some airlines, says Anjuli Bhargava, are convinced there's a conspiracy to malign them.Illustration: Uttam Ghosh/Rediff.com The last few weeks of 2016 and the first few of 2017 have been full of......

3 Indian airports among the world's best

Three airports from India have bagged the Airports Council International’s Airport Service Quality Awards. Photograph, courtesy: Ramesh NG/Wikimedia Commons The Indira Gandhi......

Why travel agents are defaulting on crores of payments

Bankruptcies are rare in the travel sector. Which is why when Delhi-based Spring Travels defaulted on a payment of over Rs 120 crore (Rs 1.2 billion) to airlines for ticket sales, it took everyone......

PHOTOS: The life and times of the glamorous Sania Mirza

She has spunk, confidence, naughtiness and lots of style. Meet Sania Mirza, off-court Not for nothing is Sania Mirza the queen of Indian tennis. When she is isn't outplaying opponents on the......

V V S Laxman on the Magic of Cricket

'If fame, money and comfort are the only factors that drive us, then we are playing cricket for entirely the wrong reasons.' IMAGE: V V S Laxman celebrates his double century in the memorable Eden......