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Air India is the flag carrier airline of India, headquartered at New Delhi. It is owned by the Government of India, which has approved the sale of Air India Limited to Talace Private Limited, a Special-Purpose Vehicle (SPV) of Tata Sons. The sale is expected to close in December 2021. Air India operates a fleet of Airbus and Boeing aircraft serving 102 domestic and international destinations. The airline has its hub at Indira Gandhi International Airport, New Delhi, alongside several focus cities across India. Air India is the largest international carrier out of India with an 18.6% market share. Over 60 international destinations are served by Air India across four continents. The airline became the 27th member of Star Alliance on 11 July 2014.
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New Delhi administration issues notices to Air India, Mahan Air for violation of Covid guidelinesThe New Delhi district administration has issued show-cause notices to Air India and a private airline from Iran for alleged violation of passenger boarding guidelines issued by the Centre following..IndiaTimes - Published | |
Restore pay cut in 3 days or face industrial action: Air India pilots to managementIndiaTimes - Published | |
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Centre to give medical benefits to retired Air India staff: Scindia replies to Shiv Sena's Priyanka ChaturvediIn a major respite to the retired staff of the Air India, which was acquired by the Tata group last month, civil aviation minister Jyotiraditya Scindia has said modalities were being worked out to..IndiaTimes - Published | |
Tatas will take over Air India by the 3rd week of January: Union aviation minister Jyotiraditya M ScindiaIndiaTimes - Published | |
Air India to add US nonstops post Nov 8 Uncle Sam reopening for fully jabbedThis could be the last expansion of services by state-owned Air India before it transits to the Tata Group and the big bang expansion then. The Maharaja will be adding its highly popular US nonstops..IndiaTimes - Published | |
Air India employees asked to vacate quarters after privatizationAir India employees living in the colony located in Kalina, Mumbai received a notice on October 5.DNA - Published | |
Baby born on London-Kochi AI flight; aircraft being diverted to Frankfurt for medical care of mom & newbornAir India’s London-Kochi flight of Tuesday is being rerouted to Frankfurt after a baby was born on board the Boeing 787. The woman went into labour sometime after the plane took off from London at..IndiaTimes - Published | |
Govt has not taken any decision on Air India so far : GoyalIndiaTimes - Published | |
Covid-19: Canada lifts ban on passengers from India, flights to resume from Sept 27Direct flights from India to Canada will resume on September 27, after the Canadian government lifted a month-long ban on passenger flights from India. The ban was put in place in view of the enhanced..IndiaTimes - Published | |
Social Humour: The most viral memes from Modi's visit to USSeveral pictures taken from inside Modi's Air India flight to his eventual meeting with Harris have now found their way into social media. Memers are having a field day giving hilariously..IndiaTimes - Published | |
Air India flight returns following suspected technical snagIndiaTimes - Published | Air India disinvestment: Tata Sons among multiple bidders for airlineThe bid by Tatas was much-anticipated as its name had been doing the rounds for some time now.DNA - Published |
Delhi-bound Air India flight hits bird during take off, returns to RaipurAn Air India flight headed to Delhi had to cancel its takeoff and return to the airport in Raipur after its hit a bird.DNA - Published | Air India resumes direct flights between Amritsar-Rome, passengers relievedAir India has resumed the direct flights from Amritsar to Rome and passengers delaying their travel plans are relieved.DNA - Published |
Evacuation from Afghanistan: Air India flight with 78 passengers en route to Delhi from DushanbeAn Air India flight carrying 78 passengers, including 25 Indian citizens is en route to New Delhi from Tajikistan's Dushanbe in a safe evacuation from Afghanistan. Taking to Twitter, ministry of..IndiaTimes - Published | Air India moves HC challenging order quashing decision to terminate pilotsIndiaTimes - Published |
Centre to make all efforts to bring back Indians from Afghanistan: Jyotiraditya Scindia“The Indian government will bring its citizens back to their homes from Afghanistan, like we did in the Vande Bharat Mission, through Air India and the Indian Air Force (IAF) planes, whichever way is..IndiaTimes - Published | No Air India flights, IAF begins to evacuate stranded IndiansDescribing the security situation in Kabul as having deteriorated significantly, and one changing rapidly, the Centre on Monday said it would stand by Afghans, who had been India’s partners in the..IndiaTimes - Published |
Student rush: Air India doubling flights to US from August 7IndiaTimes - Published | ‘3,523 Air India employees infected with Covid till mid-July, 56 died’IndiaTimes - Published |
US-bound Air India flight returns mid-air to Delhi after bat found in business classDGCA officials said fumigation was carried out and bat carcass was retrieved from the aircraft.DNA - Published | Show you care: Pilots to Air India amid death of staffersIndiaTimes - Published |
At least 4.5 million people's data exposed following Air India IT system hack At least 4.5 million people had their personal data exposed after an IT system used by Air India was subjected to a "sophisticated cyber attack".Sky News - Published | Air India data breach: SITA says cyber attackers ‘accessed some systems for 22 days at Atlanta centre’IndiaTimes - Published |
Air India data hacked, passport, credit cards and other details leakedIt is being said that other global airlines are likely affected too by the data breach.DNA - Published | 'We feel let down': Air India pilots threaten to stop work if airline fails to vaccinate crew on priorityCaptain Keerthi also claimed that they have no healthcare support, no insurance and they are in "no position" to continue risking the lives of pilots.DNA - Published |
Air India to bring 600 oxygen concentrators from US in next 2 days for private entitiesAir India will bring around 600 oxygen concentrators on its two US-India flights in the next two days, aviation industry sources said on Sunday. These oxygen concentrators have been ordered by private..IndiaTimes - Published | Covid: France imposes 10-day quarantine for Indian flyers; Air India cuts London flightsIndiaTimes - Published |
Chennai: Air customs seize 6kg gold worth Rs 2.9 crore from Air India flightChennai Air Customs on Saturday said it had seized six kg gold concealed in an Air India flight from Dubai.DNA - Published | COVID-19: Judge takes note of alarming situation of passengers on flight, issues these guidelinesTaking suo moto cognizance of a situation witnessed by a judge during an Air India flight, the court issued guidelines for compliance by all airlines.DNA - Published |
Afghan security forces, health workers to be vaccinated using India-made COVID-19 vaccinesThe vaccine contingent reached on an Air India plane at Kabul's Hamid Karzai International airportDNA - Published | Bharat Biotech commences dispatch of Covaxin, ships to 11 citiesVaccine maker Bharat Biotech commenced dispatches of indigenous Covid-19 vaccine Covaxin on Wednesday morning with the first lot of the vaccine doses being flown out of Hyderabad by national carrier..IndiaTimes - Published |
Air India carries first consignment of Bharat Biotech Covid vaccine from Hyderabad to DelhiIndiaTimes - Published | Four Air-India women pilots fly over north pole on world's longest flight route, script historyFlight AI176, which departed from San Francisco at 8:30 pm (local time) on Saturday, landed at Bengaluru Airport at 3:45 am (local time) on Monday.DNA - Published |
Air India's longest direct route flight lands at Bengaluru airportWith four women pilots, Air India's longest direct route flight landed at Kempegowda International Airport in Bengaluru on Monday. Taking the Atlantic route, the flight covered a distance of about..IndiaTimes - Published | Air India women pilots set to create history, to cover distance of 16,000 kms over North PoleAn all-women pilot team of Air India will fly over North Pole on the world's longest air route and the flight from San Fransico (SFO) will reach Bengaluru on January 9 covering a distance of about..DNA - Published |
Robotic tech deployed by Air India to disinfect aircraft interiorsIndiaTimes - Published | Chennai: 3.72 kg gold worth Rs 2 crore seized, one arrestedOn Wednesday, 12 gold paste bundles hidden in the rectum were recovered from 11 passengers who arrived via Air India flight IX 1644.DNA - Published |
Stay away from policy matters, Air India tells employees who filed EOI for itIndiaTimes - Published | Six new 'eyes in the sky' for IAF to be built by DRDO on Air India planesn a major boost for the indigenous defence industry, India is going to make six new Airborne Early Warning and Control planes to be developed by Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) on..IndiaTimes - Published |
Air India ordered by UK court to pay £13 million to aircraft leasing company for non-payment of rent on five leased aircraftIndiaTimes - Published | Now fly to London directly from Chennai: Air India to operate non-stop flights from January 2021Air India will operate seven flights between Chennai and London each week as the demand for flights to the UK capital has been high despite COVID-19.DNA - Published |
Banned pro-Khalistan organisation threatens to disrupt Delhi-London flights, security tightened at IGI AirportA senior police official further said that a meeting was held between officials of Central Industrial Security Force (CISF), Air India, and Delhi International Airport Limited on Wednesday to discuss..DNA - Published | Panic after passenger claims presence of 'terrorist' onboard Air India Delhi-Goa flightGoa Air India staff have filed a detailed report to Air India Headquarters about the whole incident.DNA - Published |
Hong Kong bars Air India, Vistara flights till October 30 after passengers test positive for Covid-19IndiaTimes - Published | Government shouldn't be running airlines, airports: Hardeep Singh PuriThe minister added that he is hopeful of completing Air India's privatization process within 2020.DNA - Published |
Air India flights to Hong Kong barred till August-end after 14 passengers test COVID-19 positiveA passenger from India could only arrive in Hong Kong if he/she could provide a COVID-19 negative certificate from a test done 72 hours prior to the journey, as per the rules issued by the Hong Kong..DNA - Published | Air India pilots challenge termination of services; HC seeks airline's standIndiaTimes - Published |
