Ai India emergency landing: In yet another incident of mid-air trouble, a Dubai bound-Air India flight was diverted to Mumbai airport after the flight experienced a technical glitch on Saturday.
An Air India Express spokesperson could not be reached for comments. Details about the number of passengers could not be immediately ascertained.
The Indian government has launched a new service of DigiYatra, where passengers travelling from Air India, IndiGo and Vistara could quickly check in at the airport with only face recognition is now operational in three major airports of the country- Varanasi, Delhi and Bengaluru.
Air India new flights: The international expansion comes at a time when Air India is grappling with the shortage of both cockpit and cabin crew.
Air India news: Air India is implementing a long-term revival plan and over the next five years, it aims to grow its wide-body and narrow-body fleet as well as expand the global network, chief Campbell Wilson said.
Air India could not provide the agency with information regarding the time it took to process refunds to passengers who filed complaints and requested refunds directly with the carrier.
As per a regulatory filing, Air Asia India will sell its remaining 16.33 per cent of Air Asia's equity shares to Air India Limited
Air India will be inducting 5 wide-body Boeing and 25 Airbus narrow-body planes over the next 15 months. The aircraft being leased are 21 Airbus A320 neos, 4 Airbus A321 neos and 5 Boeing B777-200LRs.
Air India: Since taken over by the Tatas in January this year, the loss-making airline has been making efforts to revamp services, expand its fleet and increase its overall market share in the fast-growing domestic aviation space.
A debt-laden Air India was sold to Tata Group in October last year for Rs 18,000 crore. The actual handover to Tatas happened on January 27, 2022.
After reviewing block times, airport connecting times and aircraft as well as crew rotations, Tatas-owned Air India has identified various improvement areas for bettering overall performance.
A cabin crew went out of the duty to calm an uneasy baby girl on a flight. The video went viral on the internet, with netizens hailing the flight attendant. Check out the viral video.
Air India, which was taken over by Tatas in January this year, has also decided to revise crew layover allowances and meal arrangements from September 1.
The flight with 159 passengers aboard was at the Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport for two hours from 4.50 PM till 6.50 PM before leaving for the national capital.
Air India new flights: When asked about plans of increasing Air India fleet, its CEO-MD Campbell Wilson said, "We will be commenting on those things in due course... Future of Air India is going to be very bright. It is very exciting, I'm happy to be here but I've no further comments..."
Air India's newly appointed CMD Campbell Wilson had in the last week of July asked the airline's integrated operations control centre (IOCC).
Air India flight diverted: On Tuesday, the government mentioned it has received nearly 1000 passenger complaints against Air India over the last three months.
Complaints against Air India: The issues have been related to various issues, including refund of fares, overbooking of flights, and staff behaviour, Minister of State for Civil Aviation V K Singh said on Monday.
Ripudaman Singh Malik and his co-accused, Ajaib Singh Bagri, were found not guilty in March 2005 of murder and conspiracy in a pair of Air India bombings that killed 331 people on June 23, 1985.
Campbell, who will be at the helm as the CEO and MD after takeover of the airline by the Tata Group in January this year, visited the carrier's headquarters in New Delhi for the first time
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