New Delhi: It was a "scary" experience for 122 passengers on board an Air India plane from Abu Dhabi when it landed at a Pakistani airport early Monday morning following a "false alarm" about hydraulic failure, and relief was writ large on their faces as they returned home on Monday evening. 15-year-old Muskan Sharma, who was travelling alone from Toronto to Delhi via Abu Dhabi, said, "I was scared as...
09:38 PM, Jul 09, 2012
The passengers, after reaching India following an emergency landing in Pakistan, said the authorities of both the countries and Air India officials were very helpful. ...
08:39 PM, Jul 09, 2012
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Monday directed the Air India management and its pilots to hold conciliation process on a day-to-day basis before the Deputy Labour Commissioner to expeditiously resolve issues relating to reinstatement of sacked pilots and career progression. Accepting the interim report filed by the Conciliating officer about the progress of ongoing negotiations between the parties, Justice Reva Khetrapal directed the pilots and management officials to...
05:35 PM, Jul 09, 2012
Islamabad/Lahore: An Air India relief plane has flown back to India with 122 passengers of another flight that made an emergency landing in Pakistan's southern Sindh province early Monday morning after its alarm light started blipping. The Air India Airbus A320 sent to pick up the stranded passengers took off from Nawabshah airport in Sindh shortly after 3 pm, Pakistani officials said. A team of engineers flew in on the...
05:14 PM, Jul 09, 2012
New Delhi: Air India engineers, who were flown to Nawabshah airport in Pakistan to attend to an Airbus A-319 that had landed under emergency conditions on Monday, have found that the cockpit panel had emitted a "false alarm" about a technical problem. "There was nothing wrong with the hydraulic system of the aircraft and, apparently the cockpit panel emitted false alarm making red lights to blip," airline officials said. "However,...
04:41 PM, Jul 09, 2012
New Delhi: An Air India plane made an emergency landing in Pakistan's Sindh province at the Nawabshah Airport on Monday morning at 3:30 am. The Airbus 319 was on its way from Abu Dhabi to New Delhi and was carrying 130 passengers, who were reportedly safe. An Air India relief plane reached Sindh with a team of engineers to repair the aircraft. It is carrying meals for the passengers. Light...
02:12 PM, Jul 09, 2012
New Delhi: A relief plane, with a technical team on board, reached the Nawabshah airport in Sindh in Pakistan on Monday afternoon after an Air India plane made an emergency landing there at 3:30 am. The flight, Airbus 319, was on its way from Abu Dhabi to New Delhi when it was forced to land after all its three hydraulic systems failed. Local media reports said all 130 passengers on...
02:03 PM, Jul 09, 2012
Mumbai: The Indian Pilots Guild (IPG) has accused Air India of retracting on its commitment to "sympathetically" consider their grievances even as nearly 300 pilots having allegiance to IPG have started reporting to work after nearly three months of strike. "We had a meeting with representatives of Air India management Friday under the supervision of the chief labour commissioner. However, they (management) failed to find a solution to our problems,"...
04:29 AM, Jul 08, 2012
New Delhi: The Air India pilots have ended their strike, but the airline remains in crisis. After 58 days of strike and flight cancellations, the national carrier made a loss of over Rs 600 crore. The pilots' apology will not undo the damage. Thousands of passengers were disgruntled, many of whom swore never to travel in Air India again. The airline is critical. A conservative estimate by the Civil Aviation...
09:47 AM, Jul 05, 2012
New Delhi: The Air India pilots on Wednesday confirmed the end of the strike, saying they will the conciliation process from July 6. "We respect the sentiments and the order of High Court. We have started the procedure of joining work. We are hopeful of management appreciating steps of resolving the issue. We hope that the issues will sorted in a time bound manner," Captain Rohit Kapahi said, while representing...
11:08 AM, Jul 04, 2012
The 58-day long strike of the Air India pilots finally came to an end on Tuesday evening. ...
08:53 AM, Jul 04, 2012
New Delhi: The agitating Air India pilots on Tuesday called off their two-month-old strike, following assurance from the management. The representatives of the pilots on strike said that 434 pilots would give affidavits indicating their willingness to return to work. This comes after the Air India management also assured that it would consider reinstating the 100 sacked pilots. The striking pilots had earlier on Tuesday promised the Delhi High Court...
11:30 PM, Jul 03, 2012
New Delhi: Hours after promising that they would return to work, the striking Air India pilots are now refusing to end their strike despite assurances from the management. They had earlier promised the Delhi High Court that they would return to work within the next 48 hours. Representatives of the pilots on strike had even said that 434 pilots would give affidavits indicating their willingness to return to work. The...
08:56 PM, Jul 03, 2012
New Delhi: Air India pilots have agreed to end their 57-day long strike on Tuesday. The pilots have given the decision to join back to work in writing to the Air India management. "We will decide on calling off the strike after consulting our lawyers. We are happy with the High Court order," Indian pilots' Guild (IPG) said in a press release. A total of 434 pilots were on strike...
01:41 PM, Jul 03, 2012
New Delhi: In a bid to resolve the ongoing Air India pilots' strike, the Delhi High Court on Monday observed that the case should be reconsidered and the two parties involved, the AI management and the pilots, should reconcile. The Air India management lawyers on Monday asked for a day to get back on reconciliation. The case will now come up for hearing on Tuesday. ...
12:06 PM, Jul 02, 2012
New Delhi: The strike by a section of Air India pilots will on Monday enter the 57th day, to attain the notorious distinction of becoming the second longest strike in the country's aviation history. The Indian Pilots Guild (IPG), the union of Air India pilots, had also struck work in 1974 against cost cutting measures when fuel prices shot up alarmingly. The 1974 strike lasted for well over 90 days....
09:39 AM, Jul 02, 2012
New Delhi: Despite a crippling 55-day-long strike, Air India has carried three percent more passengers between June 1 and June 20 from a year ago and would resume flights to Hong Kong this week. In its monthly performance review, the airline found that it had carried more than 716,000 passengers during the first 20 days of June-- a rise of three percent compared to the corresponding period of 2011. "The...
06:58 PM, Jul 01, 2012
New Delhi: Agitating pilots of country's national carrier Air India on Thursday urged Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and the Congress top brass to step in to resolve the impasse over the 52-day long strike, as the condition of some of them on protest fast worsened. The Indian Pilots' Guild (IPG), which is spearheading the agitation and the five-day-old hunger strike, shot off letters to Singh, Congress president Sonia Gandhi and...
07:46 PM, Jun 28, 2012
New Delhi: In a bid to restore normalcy in its curtailed international schedule, Air India has resumed operations to Tokyo via Shanghai and plans to launch flights to Hong Kong, which were stopped due to the pilots' strike that entered the 50th day on Tuesday. As the pilots continued their hunger strike for the third day in Delhi and Mumbai to focus on their demands relating to career progression, Air...
02:43 AM, Jun 27, 2012
New Delhi: There was no end in sight to the 49-day-old Air India pilots strike with the government on Monday making it clear that they have to return to work "unconditionally" and the pilots insisting that sack orders be withdrawn immediately. "We want them to come back (to work). All they have to do is to come back unconditionally to work. They never gave a notice (of going on strike)....
12:25 PM, Jun 25, 2012
