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
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...
09:45 AM, Aug 05, 2012
New Delhi:The government on Friday gave a go-ahead to Air India to induct the much-awaited Boeing 787 Dreamliners into its fleet but would conduct separate negotiations on the issue of compensation for failure of the aircraft to meet performance guarantees. The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs approved the proposal of Civil Aviation Ministry, at a meeting this evening, and allowed Air India to take delivery of 27 Boeing 787 aircraft...
08:59 PM, Aug 03, 2012
New Delhi: Air India has been ordered by a consumer forum to pay Rs 35,000 as compensation to a woman for demand of bribe from her son by its airport staffer to allow him carry extra luggage on his way to Singapore for studies. The forum ordered compensation for complainant Beena Shah saying that the demand of the bribe amounted to causing harassment to her as her son was entitled...
04:51 PM, Jul 31, 2012
Kochi: An Air India flight landed on Saturday night at Kochi airport after the pilot detected problem in its nose wheel, airline sources said. The pilot of the Delhi-Kochi-Thiruvananthapuram flight, carrying 60 passengers from Delhi, informed airport authorities that there was some problem with the nose wheel and asked permission for emergency landing. The flight landed safely at 8.30 pm, the sources said. Passengers to Thiruvananthapuam would be taken by...
11:43 PM, Jul 28, 2012
New Delhi: A Group of Ministers (GoM) on Wednesday approved a compensation package sought by Air India from US aircraft maker Boeing for a four-year delay in delivery of Boeing 787 Dreamliner planes. "The GoM considered it and now we will send it to the CCEA (Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs). ... It will be taken up whenever the next CCEA meeting is held," Civil Aviation Minister Ajit Singh told...
05:34 PM, Jul 25, 2012
Mumbai: What do you expect an airlines priority to be after discovering that one of its recent flights experienced turbulence, leading to damage to the plane and injuries to passengers, and that the pilot allegedly did not inform the company or aviation regulator and instead ordered crewmembers to stay mum? Find out who leaked the information to the media. After MiD DAYs expos on July 24 (Maharaja of cover-ups), national...
02:03 PM, Jul 25, 2012
New Delhi: A Group of Ministers, headed by Home Minister P Chidambaram, would take up on Wednesday the issue of compensation to be paid by US aircraft maker Boeing to Air India for a four-year delay in the delivery of Boeing 787 Dreamliner planes, official sources said on Tuesday. According to sources, the GoM will look at the terms of compensation and the amount to be paid by Boeing, as...
07:54 PM, Jul 24, 2012
Mumbai: What happens in the air stays in the air. That appears to be the policy of Air India, or to be precise, a particular pilot of the national carrier, who apparently failed to report an incident of mid-air turbulence that resulted in damage to the aircraft and injuries to about 20 persons on board. During a MiD DAY investigation it was revealed that Air India flight AI 348 Delhi-Shanghai...
07:30 PM, Jul 24, 2012
New Delhi: Air India has reinstated nine sacked pilots and the reconciliation process for the 89 other sacked pilots is underway and is likely to be sympathetically considered. A total of 97 terminated pilots had submitted their appeal to the Air India Reconciliation Committee. The Committee met in New Delhi and Mumbai. While one pilot appeared before the committee in New Delhi, eight others pleaded their case in Mumbai. Air...
03:24 PM, Jul 23, 2012
New Delhi: After the sacking of 101 pilots during the recent 58-day strike, Air India on Friday said it has received representations from 34 of them expressing willingness to join duty. While nine sacked pilots on Thursday sent in representations against termination of their services and stating their willingness to resume work, 25 such representations were received today by the management of the national carrier, official sources said. The protracted...
08:38 PM, Jul 20, 2012
Bangalore: Some wings of national carrier Air India would soon be hived off to right-size its staff strength and monetise its assets for an early turn-around, Civil Aviation Minister Ajit Singh said on Tuesday. "As part of the Rs 30,000-crore ($5.5 billion) turn-around package, Air India's engineering and ground support units will be hived off into separate entities to reduce its employee ratio per aircraft and make it more efficient...
10:15 PM, Jul 17, 2012
New Delhi: Air India management has been pulled up by the Delhi High Court for being too harsh on the airline's pilots. While hearing a petition on Monday, the High Court asked Air India to seek direction from the Centre and respond on whether the committee set-up to look into the reinstatement of sacked pilots can resolve the issue within four weeks. The bench of Justice Reva Khetrapal admonished Air...
03:27 PM, Jul 16, 2012
New Delhi: The Air India (AI) management has set up a committee to look into reinstatement of pilots, whose services were terminated during the recent strike, on case by case basis, the Delhi High Court was informed on Friday. Submitting a report before Justice Reva Khetrapal, conciliation officer Deputy Chief Labour Commissioner (CLC) S K Chand said conciliation proceedings were held between Air India management and its pilots on day-to-day...
06:04 PM, Jul 13, 2012
New Delhi: Conciliation talks between the Air India management and the pilots before the Deputy Chief Labour Commission concluded on Thursday and the report will be submitted to the Delhi High Court on Friday. The airline management is understood to have made submissions during the parleys on major issues, including reinstatement of 101 sacked pilots, on which the aviators had some reservations. On the second day of negotiations yesterday, there...
09:53 PM, Jul 12, 2012
Islamabad: The emergency landing of an Air India plane in Nawabshah was handed professionally by India and Pakistan and indicated progress in the relations between the neighbours, prominent Pakistani newspapers said on Thursday. The emergency landing of an Air India plane in Nawabshah was "accomplished with a minimum of fuss and stuffy protocol", said The News International while Dawn said the incident pointed to "some progress" in the ties between...
11:31 AM, Jul 12, 2012
New Delhi: Three of Boeing's cutting-edge 787 Dreamliners painted in Air India colours are parked in South Carolina, waiting for the ailing state carrier to pay for them and take possession. The 787, which promises to help modernise Air India's ageing fleet, has instead been a source of several headaches for the money-losing carrier. The three planes, the first of which was ready for delivery at the end of May,...
04:40 PM, Jul 11, 2012
New Delhi: The extension of Bharat Bhushan's tenure as the Director General of Civil Aviation was a procedural mistake, according to sources. The man who took on corruption in aviation, Bharat Bhushan, was suddenly removed as the DGCA on Tuesday, a week after his tenure was extended by the Cabinet. While Civil Aviation minister Ajit Singh refused to react, the Civil Aviation Ministry sources say that the extension was sought...
01:50 PM, Jul 11, 2012
New Delhi: The man who took on corruption in the aviation sector, Bharat Bhushan, was suddenly removed as the Director General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) on Tuesday. This came a week after his tenure was extended till the end of this year by the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet. While the reason for his removal has not been specified, sources in the DGCA say that two days ago Bhushan had...
09:14 AM, Jul 11, 2012
New Delhi: Conciliation talks between the Air India management and pilots, who went on a 58-day strike in support of their career progression issues, started on Tuesday. The parleys, which were held before the Deputy Chief Labour Commissioner, came in the backdrop of Delhi High Court asking both sides to hold talks on daily basis and report back to it on July 13. Sources said both sides stuck to their...
10:11 PM, Jul 10, 2012
