North India woke up to a thick fog on Friday morning, disrupting road, air and rail traffic across north India. The current visibility is just above 50 meters, making it difficult for traffic on the airport runway. ...
09:20 AM, Feb 01, 2013
London's Heathrow airport cancelled 130 flights and warned of more delays in service. ...
10:58 AM, Jan 22, 2013
London's Heathrow Airport cancelled a fifth of flights on Sunday and airlines scrapped 40 per cent of flights to Paris's main airports as snow continued to blanket parts of Europe. ...
09:56 AM, Jan 21, 2013
New York: Sandy split New York City in two. The massive storm left people damp, miserable and in the dark in the lower part of the city. Yet in much of the rest of Manhattan, life was almost normal, albeit without some of the usual urban comforts. Almost every street below Times Square in the city's Midtown district lost power on Monday night after an explosion at a Consolidated Edison...
06:40 PM, Oct 31, 2012
New York: The New York Stock Exchange will close its trading floor Monday as Hurricane Sandy barrels its way up the Northeast, but Big Board trading will continue electronically. NYSE Euronext said Sunday it is putting in place its contingency plans beginning Monday and will announce later when the trading floor will reopen. The New York Mercantile Exchange, a commodity futures exchange, also will be shutting on Monday its trading...
07:18 AM, Oct 29, 2012
New York: Airlines hastily canceled flights in the Northeast Sunday as Hurricane Sandy moved up the coast. The massive storm threatens to bring a near halt to air travel for at least two days in a key region for both domestic and international flights. Major carriers such as American Airlines, JetBlue and Delta planned Sunday night to cancel all flights into and out of three area airports in New York,...
07:08 AM, Oct 29, 2012
New Delhi: With no end in sight to the 16-day impasse over a lockout and strike by its workers, Kingfisher Airlines management will be meeting with their representatives on Wednesday in a last-ditch effort to convince them to return to work. The meeting, scheduled in Mumbai, is likely to be attended by top officials of the parent company, UB Group, apart from the airline top-brass. It comes three days before...
08:42 AM, Oct 17, 2012
New Delhi: The CEO of the cash-strapped Kingfisher Airlines, Sanjay Agarwal, said on Tuesday that flight operations are expected to begin on October 4, soon after his meeting with the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) ended. Speaking to reporters, Agarwal said that the company will first discuss the matter with its employees and then take a decision. The CEO further said that salaries of half the 4000 employees had...
12:41 PM, Oct 02, 2012
New Delhi: The CEO of the cash-strapped Kingfisher Airlines is expected to meet the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) on Tuesday. The CEO was summoned by the DGCA after all of Kingfisher Airlines flights were cancelled on Monday after its pilots and engineers refused to report to work over non-payment of salaries since March this year. Kingfisher Airlines was forced to declare a temporary lockout of its operations till...
08:19 AM, Oct 02, 2012
New Delhi: Sources in the Aviation Ministry said on Monday that the CEO of the Kingfisher Airlines had been summoned by the Director General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) after all of its flights were grounded after pilots refused to work over non-payment of salaries. The meeting will be held on Tuesday. The sources added that the Aviation Ministry will soon take a call on shutting down the airline that is...
03:10 PM, Oct 01, 2012
New Delhi: The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) on Monday and said that no Kingfisher Airlines flight was operating at present. Kingfisher cancelled flights due to pilots and engineers not reporting to work due to non payment of salaries. The airline in a statement said that it is taking all possible measures to lessen the impact of the employee strike. The airline further said it would proactively cancel flights...
12:13 PM, Oct 01, 2012
Kingfisher Airlines operations in Mumbai and Delhi have been crippled as a section of airline engineers have gone on a flash strike. This over the non-payment of salaries since March. Two airline managers were reportedly heckled by protesting angry staff. Staff representatives had met with the Airline's management last week to iron out their grievances but the talks failed. Passengers as always bore the brunt of the stand-off. "They didn't ...
09:43 AM, Oct 01, 2012
Mumbai: A section of engineers of the 'near-bankrupt' Kingfisher Airlines went on a strike on Sunday evening over non-payment of salaries, affecting the flight operations. Sources said that Kingfisher engineers manhandled a senior manager at the Mumbai airport. Sources also said that all fights between Delhi, Mumbai and Bangalore have been cancelled. "Passengers are stuck inside aircraft after ground staff refused to man aerobridges to allow them to disembark," Sources...
09:01 PM, Sep 30, 2012
Mumbai: A section of pilots of near-bankrupt Kingfisher Airlines on Saturday went on strike, second time in the month, demanding immediate payment of March salaries, leading to cancellation of seven flights from Mumbai. "A section of Mumbai-based pilots have gone on strike due to repeated failure to keep up with the promises (made by the airline management)," airline sources told PTI. Some flights from Mumbai have already been cancelled due...
02:46 PM, Aug 18, 2012
Mumbai: Debt-crippled Kingfisher Airlines' scheduled flights will operate normally with immediate effect, the company said in a statement late on Saturday. The firm had to cancel its 41 scheduled flights on Saturday, after some staff did not report for work in response to the company failing to pay their salaries. The airline is under immense pressure from lenders to work out a turnaround plan. Kingfisher has never made a profit....
01:00 PM, Jul 15, 2012
Mumbai: Three Kingfisher flights from Mumbai were cancelled on Saturday morning after a section of its pilots did not report for work. The flights that were cancelled were IT4141 to Kandla, IT 181 to Chennai and IT 101 to Bangalore. The Kingfisher management and its pilots have been at loggerheads over the delayed disbursement of salaries. The disgruntled pilots on Saturday claimed that their salaries had not been disbursed into...
08:14 AM, Jul 14, 2012
New Delhi: The Air India pilots have ended their strike, but the airline remains in crisis. After 58 days of strike and flight cancellations, the national carrier made a loss of over Rs 600 crore. The pilots' apology will not undo the damage. Thousands of passengers were disgruntled, many of whom swore never to travel in Air India again. The airline is critical. A conservative estimate by the Civil Aviation...
09:47 AM, Jul 05, 2012
Mumbai: Four Kingfisher Airlines flights from Mumbai were cancelled on Monday with the management blaming it on maintenance issues. The flights - IT 181, 105, 111 and 331 - were headed to Chennai, Bangalore and Jabalpur. Initial reports had suggested that some of the airline's pilots had refused to turn up for work citing delayed salary payments. However, the airline issued a statement later on blaming maintenance issues for the...
11:41 AM, Jul 02, 2012
Mumbai: In more bad news for the ailing Kingfisher Airlines, four of its flights from Mumbai were cancelled on Monday after some pilots refused to report for work citing delayed salary payments. The airline has, however, refuted the reports saying the flights were cancelled due to maintenance issues and issued a statement to the effect. The flights that stand cancelled are IT 181 (to Chennai), IT 105, IT 111 (both...
10:04 AM, Jul 02, 2012
New Delhi: The Air India management has derecognised the Indian Pilots Guild (IPG) and has terminated the services of 10 striking pilots. This came on day when almost 100 pilots had called in sick, following which many flights were affected. The Air India management had also warned the pilots to return to work. The management had said, "Striking pilots must return to work by 6 pm today or face action."...
01:48 PM, May 08, 2012
