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GMR Group and IndiGo Airlines on Thursday announced a strategic collaboration forming a digital consortium aimed at reshaping the landscape of the Indian aviation industry.
A press release from GMR said the partnership brings together the diverse strengths of GMR’s infrastructure expertise and IndiGo Airlines’…
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Passengers were filmed eating on the tarmac next to an IndiGo flight at the Mumbai airportNew Delhi: Low-cost carrier IndiGo has been fined Rs 1.2 crore by the Bureau Of Civil Aviation Security (BCAS) after a viral video showed passengers eating on the tarmac as they waited for their delayed flight to take off.The country’s aviation regulator, DGCA, also took cognisance of the video circulating on social media and ordered Mumbai Airport to pay Rs 30 lakh for the violation.On Tuesday, the…
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NEW DELHI: The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) has directed flight caterers to “enhance existing food safety protocols” after an IndiGo passenger was recently sold a sandwich that allegedly had a worm wriggling in it. FSSAI held a meeting with all big flight caterers on Tuesday (January 16) to “evaluate” existing safety protocols.“The objective was to identify areas requiring improvement and to reinforce the commitment to providing passengers with safe and…
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Sahil Kataria, who assaulted the IndiGo flight captain, was arrested last eveningNew Delhi: A man on board a Delhi-Goa IndiGo flight service, where a passenger assaulted the captain after hours-long delay, shared a first-hand account of the incident on Monday.Taking to his X account, Sanal Vij said he “doesn’t support violence”, but IndiGo took advantage and “hid all their mismanagement and mistakes in lieu of what the passenger did”.He said that flight 6E2175, which was scheduled to take…
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India’s domestic air passenger traffic experienced a year-on-year growth of 8.34% in 2023, reaching a total of 15.20 crore passengers. The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) data disclosed that the total domestic passenger volumes for the year ending December 31, 2022, amounted to 12.32 crore. Furthermore, the domestic air passenger traffic surged by 23.36% in December 2023, totaling 1.37 crore passengers, in contrast to the 1.27 crore carried by local carriers in…
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Welcome to the annual fog meltdown of Indian air travel. In the 2024 edition, only two major airline groups are left in the country: IndiGo, and Air India and its associates. And IndiGo is getting much more flak on social media than the others this year.Fog is an annual phenomenon that affects Delhi and other airports up north, every winter. It turns up without much advance notice and throws air travel out of gear, the well-oiled machinery it usually is. And on Jan. 14, the north Indian belt…
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India’s largest carrier, IndiGo, has further increased its domestic market share to 60.5 per cent in 2023 from 56.1 per cent in 2022, according to the data released by the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) on Monday. SpiceJet, which has been dealing with multiple financial troubles, saw its domestic market share decline to 5.5 per cent in 2023 from 8.7 per cent in 2023, according to the data. Akasa Air, which operated its first commercial flight in August 2022, observed a…
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Renowned Bollywood actor Sonu Sood has shown solidarity with airline staff following a viral video of a passenger assaulting a pilot. Criticizing the unacceptable conduct, Sood suggested the potential necessity of self-defense programs for flight personnel.
Having experienced a three-hour delay, he urged followers to remain patient and polite towards airline staff amid challenging situations. The actor emphasized that escalating misconduct from travelers may require…
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Source: https://yespunjab.com/sonu-sood-supports-indigo-staff-after-passenger-assaults-pilot/
Air traffic at Pune airport remains disrupted due to fog engulfing much of northern India, with flights to and from Delhi and Chandigarh being cancelled. Hit by the cascading effect, flights to Rajkot, Chennai and Nagpur too have been cancelled, officials said.The national capital is seeing a spell of chill as the minimum temperature dropped to 3.5 degrees Celsius, this winter’s lowest, and a thick layer of fog engulfed several parts of the city.
The India Meteorological Department has…
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14 Jan, 2024 20:40 IST|Sakshi Post
New Delhi, Jan 14 (IANS) An IndiGo passenger took to social media to express his frustration after enduring what he described as the “worst flight experience” of his life with the airline. On Friday, the 10 p.m. Kolkata-Bengaluru flight, normally a routine journey, turned into a nightmarish ordeal for the passenger marked by a series of delays, totlaling a staggering…
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