Passengers

Railway Tatkal scam: How touts corner tickets

New Delhi: An IBN7 expose has revealed the bitter truth about railway tatkal tickets. Despite waiting in line for hours, genuine passengers hardly have a shot as touts, including security personnel get their hands on the tickets first. In the national capital, the very force that promises to be with the people and for the people is looting the common man. At the Anand Vihar railway station, IBN7 met a...  

WB: Lucky escape for passengers at NSC Bose airport

Kolkata: Passengers of a private airlines' flight bound for NSC Bose International Airport in Kolkata had a providential escape as it tried to land at an under repair runway, but was directed to land on another in the last minute on Friday. A Jet Airways flight from Port Blair at around 3.45 pm tried to land on the out of bounds primary runway, where repair work was on, ATC sources...  

Chennai: Unending wait for autos at Central station

CHENNAI: Passengers arriving at Central Railway Station and opting for pre-paid autorickshaws have a hard time as they have to wait long hours to get an auto for their onward journey. The pre-paid auto drivers say that the Metro Rail construction work has taken up most of the space they previously used as a stand, forcing most of them outside the station complex. Kritika, who arrived from Bangalore on the...  

Kingfisher tickets? No, thanks, say passengers

Mumbai: From a big-ticket brand, in a short span Kingfisher Airlines has nosedived to one with few takers. And now the snub seems to be coming from people who matter the most - travellers. If the city-based ticketing agencies are to be believed, commuters are saying no to Kingfisher tickets, despite their being offered at unbelievably low prices. According to Devang Sanghvi of Andheri-based Venus Holidays, "We purchased Kingfisher e-coupons...  

Rail Budget: Better facilities for passengers

New Delhi: Train passengers have been given a lot of facilities in the Railway Budget 2012-13 presented by Union Minister Dinesh Trivedi on Wednesday. Recognising the need for clean and green trains, the Railway Minister said that 2,500 coaches would have bio-toilets, which would be much clearer and easy to maintain than the conventional ones presently in use. "A lot of green initiatives have been taken. Defence Research and Development...  

'India aiming to be among top five aviation markets'

Hyderabad: Civil Aviation Minister Ajit Singh on Tuesday said his ministry was taking steps to make India one of the top five civil aviation markets in the world. Inaugurating a Maintenance Repair and Overhaul (MRO) facility at Rajiv Gandhi International Airport at Shamshabad, he said the ministry was not only taking steps to make flying safer but was also charting growth plan by opening new airports in under served regions....  

Railway Budget: passengers unhappy with amenities

Kolkata: With less than 48 hours to go for the Railway Budget, CNN-IBN gets you voices of people from the two states which have had the maximum number of Railway Ministers - Bihar and West Bengal. Have things changed for the rail passengers? The Indian Railways today is staring at some uncertain times ahead. What about more than 20 million passengers that depend on it every day? CNN-IBN finds out...  

MPs advocate rail passenger fare hike

New Delhi: Ahead of Rail Budget, many MPs on Monday suggested increase in passenger fares, which has not been touched for eight years, to mobilise resources for undertaking safety related works in Railways. "Time has come, Railways should rationalise passenger fares which has not been raised since 2003," said an MP after attending the Consultative Committee meeting chaired by Railway Minister Dinesh Trivedi. According to the MP, there was unanimity...  

Deplaned by SpiceJet, passengers cry foul

Ahmedabad: The passengers of a Jaipur-Pune SpiceJet flight were deplaned at Ahmedabad and they were told that the plane had developed a technical snag. But the passengers cried foul as they later found out that the plane, that was meant to go to Pune, had in fact headed to Delhi. When the passengers confronted the officials of SpiceJet at the airport, they were told that the plane had been sent...  

Bookings nosedive as Kingfisher crisis continue

Mumbai/New Delhi: Along with its flights, Kingfisher's reputation appears to have hit an air pocket as well. Many passengers at the Kingfisher ticketing counter here in Mumbai said they won't be flying the airline anytime soon. Travel agents say the airline's bookings too have taken a hit. Sources say popular travel website operators who have bought the airline's tickets in bulk are finding it tough to offload them even at...  

Passengers bearing the brunt of the Kingfisher crisis

14 flights from Mumbai, 4 out of Delhi and 10 from Bangalore have been cancelled on Thursday. ...

We don't know Kingfisher's plan: Ajit Singh

Civil Aviation Minister Ajit Singh said that its up to Kingfisher to wade its way out of the mess. ...

More KFA flights cancelled, CEO meets DGCA

New Delhi: There was no relief for the passengers who booked Kingfisher Airlines flights for the fourth day in a row. The airlines cancelled 15 flights in Mumbai and 8 flights in Bangalore on Tuesday, a day after 40 flights were cancelled in India. Only 16 out of 64 Kingfisher aircraft were operating on Tuesday as well. As Kingfisher's woes continue, the airlines' CEO Sanjay Aggarwal met the Directorate General...  

Talking to I-T Dept to resolve crisis: Kingfisher

New Delhi: Kingfisher Airlines on Monday said that the freezing of its bank accounts by the Income Tax authorities had 'severely affected' payment schedules that had led to the curtailment in its services. "The prime reason for the current disruption in our flight schedules is the sudden attachment of our bank accounts by the I-T department. This has severely affected our ability to make operational payments leading to the present...  

Safety is a huge concern, says aviation expert

Capt Mohan Ranganathan says that its not just finances and the inconvenience to passengers but safety too is a huge concern. ...

Kingfisher passengers left in a lurch

Kingfisher passengers have been left stranded at major airports across the country. ...

Passengers suffer as Kingfisher crisis worsens

The Kingfisher Airlines is already crippled after tax authorities attached its bank accounts over non-payment of dues last week. ...

Missing raised to 29 in Italian cruise disaster

Rome: Italy's cruise liner tragedy turned into an environmental crisis on Monday, as rough seas battering the stricken mega-ship raised fears that fuel might leak into pristine waters off Tuscany that are part of a protected sanctuary for dolphins, porpoises and whales. The ship's owner accused the jailed captain of causing the wreck that left at least six dead and 29 missing, saying he made an "unapproved, unauthorized maneuver" to...  

Nightmare on 'bedbug express'

Mumbai: Vampire fiction may be all the rage, but the true bloodsuckers that emerge after twilight are far less charismatic, and far more relentless. No one will testify to this truth more fiercely than the 46 passengers who were pitted against a relentless army of bedbugs when they boarded the AC 2-tier compartment of the Netravati Express - from Thiruvananthapuram to Mumbai - on Sunday. And then the nightmare began....