The government on Thursday formed a panel to suggest measures to cut rising operation costs of Air India after the national carrier was found to have suffered an average net loss of Rs 404 crore a month March-October last year. ...
04:22 AM, Jan 04, 2013
National carrier Air India suffered an average net loss of Rs 404 crore per month for the March-October period of 2012. ...
01:46 AM, Dec 21, 2012
New Delhi: Air India employees would again raise the banner of protest by organising rallies and meetings soon, accusing the management of "overlooking their legitimate rights" and delaying payment of back wages and other dues. Though no strike threat has been given, a joint forum of eight Air India unions representing different sections of staff of the national carrier has said they would soon start wearing black badges, take out...
03:39 AM, Oct 21, 2012
New Delhi: The government on Tuesday decided to guarantee Air India's non-convertible debentures (NCDs) worth Rs 7,400 crore, which will pave the way for the ailing carrier to pay off its short-term loans. "The Ministry of Finance has approved the unconditional and irrevocable guarantee for Air India NCD bonds today for Rs 7,400 crore," an Air India spokesperson said. Air India is burdened with a huge debt of over Rs...
01:52 AM, Oct 10, 2012
New Delhi: To improve staff utilisation of the national carrier, the government on Tuesday directed Air India to immediately implement the flight duty time limitations (FDTL) for pilots and crew members. FDTL are guidelines which govern aspects like the maximum daily flight duty period including flying hours limitations, rest period, staff on duty travel and number of landings allowed per pilot as well as the crew to retain their licence....
02:48 AM, Sep 12, 2012
New Delhi: After a four-year delay, Air India's first of the 27 long-haul Boeing 787 Dreamliner would land here on Saturday with the airline taking its delivery at the US aircraft-maker's Charleston plant on Thursday. The new 256-seater aircraft would touch down at Delhi's IGI Airport on September 8, an Air India spokesperson said, adding that the plane was received by Capt Soman and Capt Amitabh Singh at the South...
07:20 PM, Sep 06, 2012
New Delhi: The new Boeing 787 Dreamliner, which is expected to be inducted in Air India's fleet shortly, is "fundamentally the right plane" for the airline's turnaround, a senior Boeing official said on Tuesday. Three of these sophisticated aircraft, made out of composite carbon material, are ready at the Boeing facility in South Carolina, US, and a team of Air India officers, including the crew, is already there to take...
03:51 AM, Sep 05, 2012
New Delhi: Worried over their uncertain future and poor financial condition of Air India, over 600 employees of the national carrier have either resigned or taken voluntary retirement since 2009. Twenty-four pilots and management pilots and 163 cabin crew and executive cabin crew have either resigned or taken VR since 2009, citing various reasons, a senior Air India official said. Six engineers, including executive engineers, 171 executives and general category...
04:42 AM, Aug 27, 2012
New Delhi: Come September, Air India will have all its Boeing 777s pressed into service and flights restarted to important destinations like Hong Kong, Seoul, Frankfurt and New York to regain lost international market share. The airline has eight 777 LR (long range) and twelve 777 ER (extended range) which were grounded during the 59-day strike that crippled the carrier's outbound operations and caused an estimated revenue loss of Rs...
01:12 AM, Aug 13, 2012
Mumbai: The Indian Pilots Guild (IPG) has accused Air India of retracting on its commitment to "sympathetically" consider their grievances even as nearly 300 pilots having allegiance to IPG have started reporting to work after nearly three months of strike. "We had a meeting with representatives of Air India management Friday under the supervision of the chief labour commissioner. However, they (management) failed to find a solution to our problems,"...
04:29 AM, Jul 08, 2012
New Delhi: Despite a crippling 55-day-long strike, Air India has carried three percent more passengers between June 1 and June 20 from a year ago and would resume flights to Hong Kong this week. In its monthly performance review, the airline found that it had carried more than 716,000 passengers during the first 20 days of June-- a rise of three percent compared to the corresponding period of 2011. "The...
06:58 PM, Jul 01, 2012
New Delhi: In a bid to restore normalcy in its curtailed international schedule, Air India has resumed operations to Tokyo via Shanghai and plans to launch flights to Hong Kong, which were stopped due to the pilots' strike that entered the 50th day on Tuesday. As the pilots continued their hunger strike for the third day in Delhi and Mumbai to focus on their demands relating to career progression, Air...
02:43 AM, Jun 27, 2012
New Delhi: Eleven striking pilots of Air India on Sunday went on an indefinite hunger-strike seeking the reinstatement of 101 sacked pilots. "Our protest is for the reinstatement of our sacked colleagues and for the recognition of our union," Rohit Kapahi of the Indian Pilots Guild, which has been de-recognized by the government, told IANS. "We want to bring the strike to an end as soon as possible," added Kapahi,...
04:24 PM, Jun 24, 2012
New Delhi: Upping the ante after their agitation entered the 47th day, Air India pilots on Saturday decided to start indefinite hunger-strike here from on Sunday to highlight their demands relating to career progression and other issues. The Indian Pilots' Guild (IPG), which has been de-recognised by the airline management for leading the ongoing agitation, said a batch of ten of its members would begin the hunger-strike "to protest against...
02:30 AM, Jun 24, 2012
New Delhi: In futher trouble for the strike-hit Air India, 22 of its around 120 Executive pilots have reported 'sick' at a time when the national carrier is struggling to maintain its international operations. Air India Chairman-cum-Managing Director Rohit Nandan on Tuesday said while 22 pilots have reported 'sick', three don't have passport and three others have applied for emergency leave like illness in family. He stated this after a...
02:48 AM, Jun 20, 2012
New Delhi: As Air India mulled sacking 300 striking Air India pilots, Civil Aviation Minister Ajit Singh on Monday said the management should take a call now on how long can the airline keep the defiant pilots on its payroll if they stayed away for work. With the 36-day-old strike showing no signs of being called off, the troubled national carrier meanwhile set up a committee to review its global...
01:46 AM, Jun 12, 2012
Air India prepares to sack all 300 striking pilots. Ajit Singh tells CNN IBN that he's run out of patience. ...
11:36 PM, Jun 11, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: Employees of Air India Air Transport Services Ltd (AIATSL) at the Thiruvananthapuram international airport are up in arms against the new service conditions they have been offered after the company hived off the ground handling and cargo handling services. Forty AIATSL employees have been given three options -- to join Air India-Singapore Airport Terminal Services Ltd (AISATS) at the entry level, to opt a transfer to any other station...
02:59 AM, Jun 05, 2012
New Delhi: Air India has switched from manual to an electronic crew management system to stop manipulations in the allocation of flight duties to employees. The airline resorted to the electronic roaster system from Friday following directions of Civil Aviation Minister Ajit Singh. "The new system will ensure high levels of safety of operation, meet regulatory requirements, optimise crew utilisation and achieve crew satisfaction," said a ministry statement. "It (system)...
08:42 PM, Jun 02, 2012
New Delhi: National carrier Air India will shift to an "interim plan" to salvage its international operations that have been crippled by a 24-day-old pilots' strike. "We have finished work on our interim plan and it will be implemented from June 1. Under the new plan, several destinations where the load factors are quite low might be dropped for the time being," an Air India official told IANS. The airline...
12:47 AM, Jun 01, 2012
