New Delhi: Airlines have already begun charging for food, drinks, seat assignments and baggage. Now one is demanding that passengers cough up extra cash on board for fuel. In a bizarre incident in Vienna, a chartered airline that had stopped to refuel asked its passengers to shell out Rs 10,000 each to fund the final leg of their journey. Hundreds of passengers traveling from India to Britain were stranded for...
09:49 AM, Nov 18, 2011
Mumbai: The passengers of a Jet flight from Mumbai to Doha were deplaned following a bomb scare in the aircraft on Monday. The airlines received an anonymous tip-off in the form of a note in the aircraft. The Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) and bomb squad checked the flight, but found nothing suspicious. The flight was later scheduled for takeoff from Mumbai at 10:30 pm. ...
09:58 PM, Aug 15, 2011
The plane went down and burst into flames in Illinois on Tuesday. All the seven on board were able to walk away safe. ...
10:30 AM, Jun 14, 2011
Oswego: A World War II bomber made what appeared to be an emergency landing in a cornfield on Monday and all seven people on board escaped before it was consumed by fire, according to the Federal Aviation Administration. "The plane departed the airport, noted an emergency and the pilot made what appears to be an emergency landing, after which the plane was consumed by fire," FAA spokeswoman Elizabeth Isham Cory...
09:07 AM, Jun 14, 2011
Ash from a Chilean volcano grounds hundreds of flights across Australia and New Zealand. ...
08:14 AM, Jun 13, 2011
London: Dense ash from the erupting Icelandic volcano forced the cancellation of hundreds of flights on Tuesday, as airlines and passengers braced themselves for days of uncertainty and chaos. Some passengers spent the night at Edinburgh airport after airlines canceled flights in and out of Scotland. Britain's Civil Aviation Authority said there was high-density ash in the skies above parts of Scotland by late Tuesday morning, and that it was...
06:34 PM, May 24, 2011
Mumbai: Just days after the Air India pilots strike, it looks like there's more trouble for the airline. A CAG report now has slammed the airline for mismanagement and incurring huge losses at its jet engine overhaul workshop. From buying aircraft and employing people it can't sustain, stories of mismanagement and over-expenditure in debt-strapped Air India don't seem to end. A new CAG report with CNN-IBN slams Air India for...
01:27 PM, May 08, 2011
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Monday asked striking Air India pilots to take a decision on resume work, saying "this strike will not see another day." "You call off the strike, we will press the management to consider your demand," said a division bench of justices BD Ahmed and Beena Birbal, while hearing a plea for initiation of contempt proceedings against the pilots who have struck work since...
02:32 PM, May 02, 2011
Pilots said they have been trying to seek appointments with the civil aviation minister. ...
01:41 PM, May 01, 2011
New Delhi: There was no solution in sight even on the fourth day on Saturday for the crisis that has hit Air India. And with pilots on strike, the Government is considering a partial lockout. Making the things even worse is the fact that the crisis has come at a time when summer travel is peaking. With neither the striking pilots, nor the Air India management budging from their stands, ...
11:06 PM, Apr 30, 2011
New Delhi: A chaotic weekend is expected across airports as the Air India Pilots' strike entered its 4th day on Saturday. 126 flights have been cancelled since Saturday morning and more cancellations are likely. Air India further reduced its operations to 39 domestic flights out of its regular 320 inconveniencing passengers. Officials say the number could decrease further. Over 700 pilots are still on strike - that's more than half...
07:36 AM, Apr 30, 2011
New Delhi: As the strike by Air India pilots entered the third day on Friday, the national carrier drastically reduced its operation to 50 flights across its network against the regular 320 as all executive pilots joined the stir. "Under the contingency plan, we are operating 50 flights across the network today," an Air India official said. From Delhi, the national carrier will be operating just 10 flights and almost...
10:33 AM, Apr 29, 2011
New Delhi: For the third day on Friday Air India passengers face the nightmare as the erstwhile Indian Airlines pilots continue to strike despite a refusal by the Delhi High Court to lift an order by the AI management derecognising the pilots' association. The agitating pilots on Friday said they will go ahead with the stir and are willing to go the jail. "We are more than willing to go...
07:20 AM, Apr 29, 2011
New Delhi: Flyers on Thursday bore the brunt of the strike by Air India pilots with some complaining that they were not informed about the status of their flights and some coming to know about the cancelled flights only after reaching the airport. Air India cancelled 60 flights this morning leaving many flyers stranded. "Me and my family had to attend a marriage in Srinagar today and we had booked...
01:32 PM, Apr 28, 2011
Mumbai: A stressful day for Air India passengers as dozens of flights were cancelled across the country. 650 pilots who fly domestic routes went on strike after the talks with the management and the Chief Labour Commissioner failed on Tuesday. Air India Passengers were left stranded on airports. Prashant Shingwal, passenger said We were going for a wedding in Udaipur, we were meeting people in Udaipur after 6 weeks, and...
08:34 PM, Apr 27, 2011
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday quashed levying of Airport Development Fee (ADF) by private airport developers in Delhi and Mumbai on international and domestic passengers. A bench of justices Cyriac Joseph and AK Patnaik set aside the policy of airport developers by which passengers departing from Delhi airport had to pay a fee of Rs 200 for domestic flights and Rs 1,300 for international flights while fliers departing...
11:38 AM, Apr 26, 2011
Mumbai-Delhi Rajdhani on Monday caught fire, luckily, everyone escaped unhurt. ...
11:57 PM, Apr 18, 2011
New Delhi: The Mumbai-New Delhi Rajdhani Express train that caught fire early on Monday morning reached the national capital on Monday afternoon. Hundreds of passengers on board the train had a miraculous escape when a fire broke out in the pantry car of the train and soon engulfed three other coaches. No one was injured and all the 1,100-odd passengers travelling in the prestigious train were safe, railway officials said, ...
04:10 PM, Apr 18, 2011
New Delhi: The Mumbai-New Delhi Rajdhani Express train that caught fire early on Monday morning reached the national capital on Monday afternoon. Hundreds of passengers on board the train had a miraculous escape when a fire broke out in the pantry car of the train and soon engulfed three other coaches. No one was injured and all the 1,100-odd passengers travelling in the prestigious train were safe, railway officials said,...
04:10 PM, Apr 18, 2011
New Delhi: Heightened security measures are being put in place at all Indian airports with the Bureau of Civil Aviation Security asking operators to urgently install CCTVs and take other measures to secure the entire airport area, right from the entry point. A fresh directive has been issued by BCAS, which is responsible for aviation security, following growing threat perceptions weeks after the December terror attack at Moscow's Domodedovo airport,...
04:05 PM, Feb 13, 2011
