North India woke up to a thick fog on Friday morning, disrupting road, air and rail traffic across north India. The current visibility is just above 50 meters, making it difficult for traffic on the airport runway. ...
09:20 AM, Feb 01, 2013
London's Heathrow airport cancelled 130 flights and warned of more delays in service. ...
10:58 AM, Jan 22, 2013
London's Heathrow Airport cancelled a fifth of flights on Sunday and airlines scrapped 40 per cent of flights to Paris's main airports as snow continued to blanket parts of Europe. ...
09:56 AM, Jan 21, 2013
New York: Sandy split New York City in two. The massive storm left people damp, miserable and in the dark in the lower part of the city. Yet in much of the rest of Manhattan, life was almost normal, albeit without some of the usual urban comforts. Almost every street below Times Square in the city's Midtown district lost power on Monday night after an explosion at a Consolidated Edison...
06:40 PM, Oct 31, 2012
New York: The New York Stock Exchange will close its trading floor Monday as Hurricane Sandy barrels its way up the Northeast, but Big Board trading will continue electronically. NYSE Euronext said Sunday it is putting in place its contingency plans beginning Monday and will announce later when the trading floor will reopen. The New York Mercantile Exchange, a commodity futures exchange, also will be shutting on Monday its trading...
07:18 AM, Oct 29, 2012
New York: Airlines hastily canceled flights in the Northeast Sunday as Hurricane Sandy moved up the coast. The massive storm threatens to bring a near halt to air travel for at least two days in a key region for both domestic and international flights. Major carriers such as American Airlines, JetBlue and Delta planned Sunday night to cancel all flights into and out of three area airports in New York,...
07:08 AM, Oct 29, 2012
New Delhi: The CEO of the cash-strapped Kingfisher Airlines, Sanjay Agarwal, said on Tuesday that flight operations are expected to begin on October 4, soon after his meeting with the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) ended. Speaking to reporters, Agarwal said that the company will first discuss the matter with its employees and then take a decision. The CEO further said that salaries of half the 4000 employees had...
12:41 PM, Oct 02, 2012
New Delhi: The CEO of the cash-strapped Kingfisher Airlines is expected to meet the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) on Tuesday. The CEO was summoned by the DGCA after all of Kingfisher Airlines flights were cancelled on Monday after its pilots and engineers refused to report to work over non-payment of salaries since March this year. Kingfisher Airlines was forced to declare a temporary lockout of its operations till...
08:19 AM, Oct 02, 2012
Mumbai: A section of pilots of near-bankrupt Kingfisher Airlines on Saturday went on strike, second time in the month, demanding immediate payment of March salaries, leading to cancellation of seven flights from Mumbai. "A section of Mumbai-based pilots have gone on strike due to repeated failure to keep up with the promises (made by the airline management)," airline sources told PTI. Some flights from Mumbai have already been cancelled due...
02:46 PM, Aug 18, 2012
Mumbai: Debt-crippled Kingfisher Airlines' scheduled flights will operate normally with immediate effect, the company said in a statement late on Saturday. The firm had to cancel its 41 scheduled flights on Saturday, after some staff did not report for work in response to the company failing to pay their salaries. The airline is under immense pressure from lenders to work out a turnaround plan. Kingfisher has never made a profit....
01:00 PM, Jul 15, 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
Mumbai: Four Kingfisher Airlines flights from Mumbai were cancelled on Monday with the management blaming it on maintenance issues. The flights - IT 181, 105, 111 and 331 - were headed to Chennai, Bangalore and Jabalpur. Initial reports had suggested that some of the airline's pilots had refused to turn up for work citing delayed salary payments. However, the airline issued a statement later on blaming maintenance issues for the...
11:41 AM, Jul 02, 2012
Mumbai: In more bad news for the ailing Kingfisher Airlines, four of its flights from Mumbai were cancelled on Monday after some pilots refused to report for work citing delayed salary payments. The airline has, however, refuted the reports saying the flights were cancelled due to maintenance issues and issued a statement to the effect. The flights that stand cancelled are IT 181 (to Chennai), IT 105, IT 111 (both...
10:04 AM, Jul 02, 2012
New Delhi: The Air India management has derecognised the Indian Pilots Guild (IPG) and has terminated the services of 10 striking pilots. This came on day when almost 100 pilots had called in sick, following which many flights were affected. The Air India management had also warned the pilots to return to work. The management had said, "Striking pilots must return to work by 6 pm today or face action."...
01:48 PM, May 08, 2012
Mumbai: The list of woes for Kingfisher Airlines has become longer. Oil companies have stopped fuel supply to the crisis-hit airlines due to non-payment of dues. Sources said negotiations were on. Six Kingfisher flights at Mumbai airport were delayed due to no fuel supply on Wednesday. This came on a day when the International Air Transport Association (IATA) suspended Kingfisher Airlines. It means that the international bookings of the carrier...
09:18 PM, Mar 07, 2012
New Delhi: Kingfisher Airlines resumed its Kolkata operations on Wednesday after the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) asked them not to shut down their operations in the city on Tuesday. Four flights started from Kolkata to the northeast region. However, flight cancellations in other cities continued as 14 flights were cancelled in Mumbai and four in Delhi on Wednesday. The Kingfisher management will submit a detailed revised flight schedule...
09:52 AM, Feb 22, 2012
Civil Aviation Minister Ajit Singh on Monday said that that the government cannot give a bailout to private airlines. ...
11:47 AM, Feb 20, 2012
New Delhi: Ailing Kingfisher airlines on Friday said it has not asked for a bailout from the government but admitted requesting banks to increase the loan limits to enable it meet rising operating costs due to increase in fuel prices and rupee devaluation. "Kingfisher has not made any bail out request to the government. We have only asked our banks for an increase in limits due to significant increase in...
07:39 AM, Nov 12, 2011
Kingfisher Airlines CEO Sanjay Agarwal said that cancellation of flights was a well-thought, pre-determined plan. ...
11:05 PM, Nov 11, 2011
