Category: Air India

Thiruvananthapuram, Feb 3 (PTI) All domestic flights of Air India, which are currently operating from International Terminal (T-2) of the airport here, will now be operating from the domestic terminal (T-1) at Shanghumugham from February 7, Airport officials said on Saturday.At present, New Delhi and Mumbai services of Air India are operating from T-2 International Terminal at Chackai here, they said. “All these services will be operating from domestic terminal T-1 at Shanghumugham from…
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Source: https://www.theweek.in/wire-updates/national/2024/02/03/srg3-kl-airindia-terminal.amp.html

Adarsh Gourav shares videos as Air India flight delayed by 14 hrs, calls it ‘worst airline’ | So disappointed in the Tatas: Gourav | Inshorts  InshortsAdarsh Gourav stuck at the airport for 13 hours, narrates his ordeal  IndiaTimesDelhi Airport: Flyers Raise Slogan Against Air India After Seeing Huge Delay  News18After Radhika Apte locked on aerobridge, Adarsh Gourav deboarded from plane post 7.5 hours delay; Deets inside  PINKVILLAAdarsh Gourav Slams Airline After Being Stuck At Airport For…
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Source: https://inshorts.com/en/amp_news/adarsh-gourav-shares-videos-as-air-india-flight-delayed-by-14-hrs-calls-it-worst-airline-1706871458106

Air India on Friday said Ravindra Kumar G P will take over as the airline’s Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO) from April 1. Kumar, who is currently with Tata Motors, will replace Suresh Dutt Tripathi who is retiring from the airline. Click here to follow our WhatsApp channel “Following a long career with General Electric Company, the last four years of which as CHRO for South Asia, Ravi joins from Tata Motors Ltd where he has held the role of President & CHRO since 2018,” the airline…
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Source: https://www.business-standard.com/amp/companies/news/air-india-appoints-ravindra-kumar-as-chief-human-resources-officer-124020201339_1.html

The leading carrier Air India has been grabbing headlines for all the wrong reasons lately. From making passengers wait for hours to not making take-offs on time, flyers now started slamming the airline on social media for the same. Again on Thursday night, Air India flight number AI 187, which was scheduled to depart from Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport on Feb 1, got delayed by more than 19 hours due to operational reasons.Air India Internation Flight Delayed The agitated…
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Source: https://www.news18.com/amp/auto/delhi-airport-flyers-raise-slogan-against-air-india-after-seeing-huge-delay-8763531.html

Media Release
Mangaluru, Feb 2: Mangaluru International Airport is all set to add Jeddah as its eighth overseas sector in the upcoming summer schedule. Air India Express has announced the weekly flight that will operate every Wednesday starting April 3. Flight IX 499 Mangaluru-Jeddah will depart Mangaluru at 2.50 pm and reach Jeddah at 6.25 pm Jeddah time. On the return leg, IX 498…
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Source: https://www.daijiworld.com/news/newsDisplay?newsID=1164089

A pilot from a national pilots’ association, speaking on condition of anonymity, expressed concern about the sector’s lack of professionalism, citing systemic issues such as inadequate technological upgrades, constant pilot fatigue, and a limited understanding of safety regulations.“Indian aviation is a ticking time bomb. We’re just inches from a major aviation disaster, given how pilots are treated and how passenger planes are operated,” said the senior pilot, who has been…
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Source: https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/economics/article/3250603/ready-takeoff-indias-aviation-sector-sets-sights-growth-despite-bumpy-start-2024

Over 7,200 Miles: India’s 10 Longest Non-Stop Flights  Simple Flying
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Source: https://simpleflying.com/india-10-longest-non-stop-flights/

In an exclusive interview, the Southeast Asian airline’s longtime CEO Goh Choon Pong outlines his plans to turn India into its next big hub.
By Jonathan Burgos, Forbes Staff

Goh Choon Phong, CEO of Singapore Airlines, has plenty to brag about: record profits, nearly full planes, a coveted Best Airline award. But the subject that really excites Goh, 60, is India. “You can just tell how much potential there is,” Goh enthuses in an exclusive interview in late November at the SIA Training…
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Source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/jonathanburgos/2024/01/31/singapore-airlines-bets-big-on-india/

India’s Alliance Air eyes regional niche free of Air India  ch-aviation
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Source: https://www.ch-aviation.com/news/136337-indias-alliance-air-eyes-regional-niche-free-of-air-india

Two years on from Tata Group’s acquisition of Air India, my partner and I sampled the ‘new’ Air India on a flight from New York JFK to Mumbai. This daily service is flown almost exclusively by Air India’s ex-Delta Boeing 777-200LRs.
Delta modernized the 777 cabins in 2018, introducing Delta One business class suites and Premium Select premium economy, only to ground and subsequently offload the jets at the start of the Covid pandemic. Air India has since leased five of these…
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Source: https://runwaygirlnetwork.com/2024/01/air-india-ex-delta-777/