LONDON: Around 250 Indian students and tourists stranded in the UK due to the coronavirus-induced lockdown for nearly two months are preparing to board the first repatriation flight from London to Mumbai on Saturday. The flight marks the first of seven Air India routes organised by the Indian government from […]
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NEW DELHI: Days after India reiterated that Gilgit-Baltistan was part of its territory, national broadcaster Prasar Bharati on Friday started including weather forecasts for these areas in its news bulletins. Earlier this week, India Meteorological Department (IMD) too started referring to its meteorological sub-division of Jammu and Kashmir as “Jammu […]
MUMBAI: Air India’s pilot unions IPG and ICPA has urged Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri to “urgently” provide financial support to the national carrier amid private airlines’ cry for a bailout package in the wake of the COVID-19 outbreak. “The Air India management has not taken paying wages on […]
Two special flights from the UAE carrying a total of 363 Indian nationals, including nine infants, has landed in kerala as India began its biggest ever repatriation exercise to bring back its citizens stranded abroad amidst the coronavirus-induced travel restrictions. The first Air India Express flight IX 452 carrying 177 […]
Mumbai: The coronavirus pandemic is expected to wipe out two-fifths of the global air passenger traffic in 2020, with volume across Asia-Pacific airports logging an estimated 42.1 per cent negative growth, a report said. Besides, the traffic estimates for the first quarter of 2020 portray a distressing picture. Airports in […]
Mumbai: Air India chief Rajiv Bansal on Thursday said that the “crippling effect” of coronavirus has further plummeted the airline’s finances to a “precarious” position but despite that, it has managed to keep afloat. Bansal, in a message on Thursday, also assured the employees of providing all the “essential armoury” […]
BENGALURU|MUMBAI: US-based Delta Air Lines has suspended several technology projects due to the Covid-19 pandemic, impacting over 1,300 jobs at its outsourcing vendors in its home country and in India. Delta has cancelled thousands of flights in the US and to international destinations in Europe, the UK and India, hurting […]
NEW DELHI: Air India is planning to conduct three special flights to London from April 8-10 to repatriate Canadians who are stranded in India amid a 21-day lockdown imposed to curb the coronavirus pandemic, senior airline officials said on Monday. Once the Air India flights drop them in London, the […]
Mumbai: Domestic air traffic is expected to drop to 80-90 million passengers in the current fiscal and delivery of more than 200 planes to Indian carriers are likely to be deferred by up to two years, according to a report. “The combination of COVID-related travel restrictions and an economic downturn […]
NEW DELHI: Air India recently found a rather unexpected praise from an Air Traffic Controller (ATC) of- Pakistan. Air India was operating special flights from India to Frankfurt with relief materials and evacuated European nationals, who were stranded in India as coronavirus swept across continents, perishing millions and crippling the […]