Mumbai: National flag carrier Air India, which was forced to scale down its international operations massively following the recent two-month strike by a section of pilots, will resume most of its international operations by the end of August.
"We will be ready to restart our full international operations by the end of August. We will restore New York, Chicago and Paris flights by then...also resume flights to Hong Kong and Shanghai," an airline official said.
The airline will also add more services to the busy Southeast Asian regions by mid-August.
Around 400 pilots, members of the now-de-recognised Indian Pilots Guild, had gone on a 58-day strike from May 7 to protest the decision to allow the erstwhile Indian Airlines pilots to train on the Boeing Dreamliners....
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09:45 AM, Aug 05, 2012
Hyderabad: Virtually sounding a warning to the striking Air India pilots, Civil Aviation Minister Ajit Singh on Sunday said the government is not waiting for the pilots to return to work but making plans to move ahead. Reminding the pilots and other employees that their survival was linked to Air India, he said that nobody is going to give anymore public money to the airline and "they will not survive...
05:49 PM, Jun 17, 2012
New Delhi: The Air India crisis has entered the 15th day on Tuesday and there is still no clarity on when the pilots' strike will end. Civil Aviation Minister Ajit Singh met 13 Air India unions on Monday to discuss the turnaround plan and the future of the national carrier. While sources claimed that one of the requests by the unions was to reinstate the 71 sacked pilots, the Air...
08:49 AM, May 22, 2012
New Delhi: The rift between the Air India staff and the government has worsened with the government now accusing the employees of causing massive financial losses. Civil Aviation Minister Ajit Singh told Parliament on Thursday that the Vigilance Department was investigating 161 cases of irregularities. The ministry accepted that there has been an increase in tipsy pilots and cabin crew. It also says that the pilots allegedly pocketted over Rs...
01:18 PM, May 17, 2012
New Delhi: The government's appeal to the striking pilots of Air India have fallen on deaf ears. The strike has entered its ninth day on Wednesday. Fifteen international flights from Delhi and Mumbai were cancelled on Wednesday. Speaking in the Lok Sabha on Tuesday, Civil Aviation Minister Ajit Singh had said that the government would hear the pilots' woes unconditionally as long as they returned to work. The strike has...
08:56 AM, May 16, 2012
New Delhi: There has been no end to the Air India crisis as the pilots' strike entered the eighth day on Tuesday. Air India cancelled around 10 international flights from Delhi and Mumbai this morning. The pilots sent a medical report to the Civil Aviation Minister saying that ill health was an excuse to skip work. While Ajit Singh slammed the report, an Air India team visited the homes of...
11:10 AM, May 15, 2012
Civil Aviation Minister Ajit Singh repeated that he won't talk to the Air India pilots till they resume work. ...
01:04 PM, May 14, 2012
New Delhi: There has still been no end to Air India's troubles. It's been a week since its pilots went on a strike that has so far cost the already debt-ridden national carrier almost Rs 96 crore so far. The Maharaja's contingency plan was supposed to take effect on Monday but now sources say that it hasn't even been finalised as yet. That is because Air India's Executive Pilots Association...
07:52 AM, May 14, 2012
New Delhi: There seem to be no signs of an end to the deadlock between the striking Air India pilots, the management and the government as all of them continued to stick to their stands. Civil Aviation Minister Ajit Singh asked the striking pilots to first apologise to the passengers if they wished to hold talks with the government. "I appeal to the pilots to give first priority to the...
02:32 PM, May 12, 2012
New Delhi: There seems to be no end in sight to the Air India crisis. The pilots' strike entered the fifth day on Saturday and passengers continued to suffer as 15 flights were cancelled. Following is the list of the 15 Air India flights cancelled on Saturday: AI 120 from Delhi to Frankfurt cancelled AI 990 from Delhi to Jeddah cancelled AI 348 from Delhi to Mumbai cancelled AI 112...
07:47 AM, May 12, 2012
New Delhi: There seems to be no end in sight to the Air India crisis. The pilots' strike entered the fifth day on Saturday and passengers continued to suffer as 15 international flights were cancelled. On Friday, Air India sacked 25 more pilots taking the total number of sacked pilots to 71 in four days, even as the pilots reached out for talks. Air India also wrote to the Directorate...
07:34 AM, May 12, 2012
New Delhi: Flights continued to be hit following the strike by Air India and Kingfisher Airlines pilots on Friday. Passengers continued to bear the brunt as several flights were cancelled. The seven Kingfisher Airlines flights cancelled on Friday were: IT 2314 - Delhi " Jaipur IT 4354 " Delhi " Shimla IT 4302 " Delhi " Udaipur IT 4358 - Delhi " Kulu IT 2636 - Delhi " Chandigarh IT...
11:38 AM, May 11, 2012
New Delhi: Even as the Air India stalemate continues, Indian Pilots Guild President Jitendra Awhad has said that the pilots were ready to go back to work if 99 per cent of their demands were met. He also claimed that the government had closed its doors to talks on the issue. Civil Aviation Minister Ajit Singh, however, denied Awhad's allegations. Ajit Singh said that the government was open to talks....
10:52 AM, May 09, 2012
New Delhi: The crisis at Air India continues on Wednesday with no end to the stalemate between the management and the pilots. However, reports say that Air India's pilots may strike a deal with the government and return to work. This comes after the cash-strapped national career sacked 10 agitating pilots, derecognised their union, the Indian Pilots Guild, and sealed its offices as around 160 pilots failed to join duty....
07:38 AM, May 09, 2012
New Delhi: Heeding to the demands of private airlines, government on Friday announced throwing open of 11 new international routes which will allow them and state-run Air India to further expand their global network. The sectors opened up are Mumbai-Dar-es-Salaam, Delhi-Guangzhou, Delhi-Yangon, Delhi-Tashkent, Delhi-Ho-Chi-Minh City, Delhi-Hanoi, Delhi-Almaty, Delhi-Macao, Delhi-Addis Ababa, Delhi-Melbourne and Delhi-Sydney, officials said. Private airlines had been asking the government to open up international routes under the bilateral...
07:52 PM, Mar 23, 2012
The airline would operate only two flights on the international route. ...
09:48 AM, Sep 12, 2009
