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: The advanced Boeing 787 Dreamliner of Air India touched down at Delhi's IGI Airport on Saturday, ending an over four-year wait of the struggling national carrier to add this next-generation airplane in its fleet. The plane, painted in red and yellow livery of Air India, landed at the main runway of the airport at 1705 hours and was given water-cannon salute as it taxied to the bay. After...
06:14 PM, Sep 08, 2012
New Delhi: After a delay of nearly four years in its deliveries, Air India's first Boeing 787 Dreamliner will finally land in Delhi's IGI airport on Saturday evening. The 256-seater Boeing 787 aircraft was to be handed over to Air India in 2008 but logistical issues like supply delays and labour trouble delayed the process. One of the aircraft meant for Air India suffered a last minute hitch when debris...
10:03 AM, Sep 08, 2012
New Delhi: With the first Boeing 787 Dreamliner for Air India landing in New Delhi on Saturday, the airline plans to fly it on select domestic and international routes for the next two months before it flies long-haul. The new 256-seater aircraft, made out of light-weight carbon composite materials, would be flown on routes like Delhi-Dubai on the international sector, Delhi-Kolkata, Delhi-Bangalore and Delhi-Amritsar, airline sources said. The flights on...
04:47 AM, Sep 08, 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: Air travel has become costlier with major Indian carriers hiking fuel surcharge on tickets, ranging from Rs 150 to Rs 250 for domestic travel and $15 (Rs 825) for a one-way international ticket, following an almost eight per cent increase in jet fuel prices. While Air India introduced the increased fuel surcharge on Tuesday itself, Jet Airways and its subsidiary JetKonnect would raise it from Wednesday, officials of...
11:02 PM, Sep 04, 2012
Paris: A 46-year-old diplomatic bag, found on Mont Blanc in the French Alps last month, was handed over to India by France but the contents were not immediately known. The jute bag, stamped "Diplomatic mail" and "Ministry of External Affairs", was recovered by a mountain rescue worker on August 21 on Mont Blanc close to where an Air India plane flying from Mumbai to New York crashed in January 1966...
11:43 PM, Sep 03, 2012
New Delhi: No frill carrier IndiGo had the least number of flight cancellations while national carrier Air India fared the worst between July 2011 to June 2012. IndiGo cancelled just 0.3 per cent of its total flights between July 2011 and June this year. The airline was to operate a total of 1,02,571 flights, of which only 303 were cancelled during this period, a senior official of the Civil Aviation...
05:37 AM, Sep 03, 2012
New Delhi: Air India on Saturday lifted the Durand Cup defeating another Mumbai outfit Dodsal FC in a penalty shootout after both teams failed to score during regular time. Air India won the shootout 3-2, bagging the prestigious trophy after reaching the final for the very first time. The scorers for Air India were Pradeep, Sethi and Ramandeep, whereas the two goals of Dodsal were scored by Sunil Kumar and...
11:42 PM, Sep 01, 2012
New Delhi: Air India has not yet decided about importing Air Turbine Fuel (ATF) directly, Civil Aviation Minister Ajit Singh said on Tuesday. The minister said this in a written reply in the Rajya Sabha on being asked whether Air India is going to save Rs 300 crore by direct import of the jet fuel. ATF now sold in the country is nearly 50-60 per cent costlier than the price...
01:03 AM, Aug 29, 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: Flag carrier Air India, reeling under accumulated losses and loans of around Rs 67,520 crore ($12 billion), is planning to carry advertisements on its aircraft to mobilise additional revenue. "We have plans to allow advertisers to put up ads on the aircraft. Ads can be placed on the tail or the hull of the aircraft," a highly placed source in the national airline told IANS. The airline is...
04:47 PM, Aug 26, 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...
11:28 AM, Aug 26, 2012
New Delhi: With Air India's first Boeing 787 Dreamliner landing inNew Delhi on Wednesday, a definitive delivery schedule for the aircraft would be firmed up soon as two more are ready for delivery, official sources said. The last hurdle in taking delivery of this plane has been cleared with the Law and Justice Ministry giving its nod to the compensation settlement agreement which Air India would sign with the US...
09:30 AM, Aug 26, 2012
New Delhi: In an attempt to plug revenue loss of Air India, Civil Aviation Minister Ajit Singh has imposed a blanket ban on excess baggage checked in by ministers and civil servants, which is generally carried free by the airlines. Singh, in a letter to Air India CMD Rohit Nandan, said that the airline should stop the practise of carrying excess baggage without charges immediately on domestic and international flights,...
03:00 PM, Aug 25, 2012
New Delhi: After a delay of nearly five years, the first Boeing 787 Dreamliner is likely to arrive in New Delhi next week with Air India planning to take delivery of the aircraft on Tuesday. "A total of three aircraft are ready for delivery at the Boeing's South Carolina factory. The first Dreamliner will take off from the US and is likely to arrive here on Tuesday," airline sources said....
12:49 AM, Aug 25, 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: Captain SPS Suri was suspended by DGCA pending inquiry for allegedly trying to bury an episode of turbulence on a flight. But he travelled as operational crewmember for another flight on August 1, in violation of aviation and immigration guidelines. An inquiry against him for alleged contravention of rules has apparently failed to stop this Air India pilot from flouting a few more. MiD DAY had reported on July...
03:47 PM, Aug 07, 2012
New Delhi: State-owned Air India will resume most of its international operations by the end of the month. The airline was forced to scale down its international operations massively following the recent two-month strike by a section of pilots. "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...
07:31 PM, Aug 05, 2012
