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Air India Recruitment 2019: More Vacancy With Salary Over Rs 2 Lakh

Airline Allied Services Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of Air India Limited, has released a recruitment notification for the positions of Co-Pilot. Interested and eligible candidates can apply for the positions before the deadline. The last date of application submission is November 30, 2019. Air India Recruitment 2019 Vacancy Detail Co-Pilot – 10 Posts Gen-04, […]

  • Saturday, 01 May 2021
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Air India offers 40 per cent discount on 'tatkal' air tickets

New Delhi: State-run Air India has decided to offer a 40 per cent discount on ‘tatkal’ air tickets on domestic routes. The move is set to help flyers get reasonably-priced tickets for emergency travel. Airlines generally sell last-minute ticket at very high prices. “Generally, an emergency leads to the last-minute demand. Such a traveller is […]

  • Saturday, 01 May 2021
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Air India gets Jet's unused foreign traffic rights

New Delhi: State-run Air India seems to be finally getting its preferential rights in allocation of traffic rights over foreign routes after losing it to private carriers in the previous UPA government. The government has decided to allot it about 5,700 weekly seats out of grounded Jet Airways’ unused quota on the lucrative India-Dubai route. The […]

  • Saturday, 01 May 2021
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More Air India flights to Dubai from early June

New Delhi: Seeking to fill the void created by Jet Airways’ suspension of operations and peak summer travel demand, state-run Air India has added capacity on the busy Delhi-Dubai, Mumbai-Dubai and Delhi-Mumbai sectors. India-Dubai is considered one of the most lucrative sectors as demand is always very high on the route due to high business […]

  • Saturday, 01 May 2021
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SpiceJet adds 100th aircraft to its fleet

New Delhi: Budget airline SpiceJet on Sunday said it has added a new Boeing 737 aircraft to its fleet, taking its total strength to 100 aircraft. SpiceJet is the fourth domestic airline to have 100 aircraft in its fleet, after Air India, IndiGo, and the now grounded Jet Airways. Its fleet now comprises of 68 […]

  • Friday, 30 April 2021
Air India letter surfaces to haunt UPA

New Delhi: Amid enquiry into alleged role of a middleman in higher bilateral seat quota with Gulf countries during UPA era, it has now emerged that national carrier Air India had repeatedly warned against such move. Letters written by the airline to Civil Aviation Ministry had claimed that the capacity entitlements on almost all the […]

  • Friday, 30 April 2021
Air India could post over Rs 7,600 crore loss in 2018-19, highest so far

New Delhi: In what could make Air India sale an uphill task for the government, the national carrier could report highest-ever loss of over Rs 7,600 crore in financial year 2018-19 on account of low fleet utilization and high fuel prices among others. An official source said the total revenue in the previous fiscal stood […]

  • Thursday, 29 April 2021
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Pakistan to let PM Modi's plane fly over its airspace to Bishkek

Lahore: Pakistan has approved “in principle” India’s request to allow Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s aircraft fly over its airspace to Bishkek to attend the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit this week, according to a senior Pakistani official, who hoped that New Delhi would respond to Islamabad’s offer for peace dialogue. India requested Pakistan to let […]

  • Thursday, 29 April 2021
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Aviation scam: ED quizzes Praful Patel for 10 hours

New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Tuesday questioned former Civil Aviation Minister Praful Patel here for over 10 hours in connection with a money laundering probe into the losses suffered by Air India under the alleged multi-crore aviation scam. This was Patel’s second appearance before the agency in connection with the case. The Nationalist […]

  • Thursday, 29 April 2021
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Domestic air passenger growth up 3.3% in May: report

New Delhi: Passenger traffic in India’s domestic aviation industry rebounded in May with a year-on-year growth of 3.3 per cent, said an ICRA report on Friday. The rise comes after the industry reported a 4.4 per cent “de-growth” in traffic in April. “This is primarily attributable to the gradual increase in capacity as airlines like […]

  • Thursday, 29 April 2021
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Air India suspends its regional director for allegedly shoplifting at Sydney airport

New Delhi: Air India has suspended its Regional Director for East, Rohit Bhasin, for allegedly shoplifting a wallet from a duty free shop at Sydney airport, officials said Sunday. Bhasin was rostered as one of the commanders (pilots) of AI301 flight, which was set to depart at 10.45 am (local time) on June 22 from […]

  • Thursday, 29 April 2021
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Air India's Mumbai-Newark flight lands in UK after bomb scare

London/Mumbai: A US-bound flight of Air India from Mumbai made a precautionary landing at London’s Stansted Airport Thursday following a bomb threat, forcing Britain to scramble its fighter jets to escort the flight. UK Royal Air Force (RAF) Typhoon jets were scrambled to escort Flight AI 191 at 10.30 am. “AI 191 Mumbai-Newark of June […]

  • Thursday, 29 April 2021
Air India Express plane veers off taxiway, all passengers safe

Mangaluru: As many as 183 passengers aboard an Air India Express flight had a narrow escape when the aircraft that arrived from Dubai veered off the taxiway after landing at Mangaluru Internatioal Airport here on Sunday. All passengers and crew members on board are safe, Air India Express said in a statement. The incident happened […]

  • Thursday, 29 April 2021
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203 flights cancelled in Mumbai due to rains, skidding of jet

Mumbai: Flight services at the city airport were severely affected Tuesday with airlines cancelling 203 serivces due to incessant rains and suspension of operations from the main runway due to the skidding of an aircraft Monday night, airport officials said. Besides, another 350-odd flights –both arriving and departing — were delayed between 28-51 minutes (till […]

  • Wednesday, 28 April 2021
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11 flights cancelled, 3 diverted due to heavy rains in Mumbai

Mumbai: A total of 11 flights were cancelled and another three diverted Monday due to heavy rains that briefly affected operations at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport here, an official said. As the visibility dropped below the required level for aircraft movement due to heavy showers, the runway remained closed for operations for nearly […]

  • Wednesday, 28 April 2021
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