NEW DELHI: Even as the world celebrates International Women’s Day, an 82-year-old woman who was allegedly denied a wheelchair by Air India officials at the Delhi airport suffered a fall and is currently under observation in an Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of a Bengaluru hospital.

NEW DELHI: Air India on Wednesday announced that it will restart its non-stop flights between Delhi and Tel Aviv, with the first flight scheduled to take off on March 2.

NEW DELHI: In line with its commitment to enhancing the travel experience and delivering greater value to its guests, Air India Express has announced a significant increase in free check-in baggage allowance.

NEW DELHI: Strengthening connectivity in the National Capital Region (NCR), Air India Express has announced the addition of Hindon Airport in Ghaziabad, to its growing network. With this expansion, Air India Express will operate from two airports in NCR; Indira Gandhi International Airport (DEL) and Hindon Airport (HDO). The airline will commence services from Hindon on March 1, 2025, with direct flights to Bengaluru, Goa, and Kolkata.

GURUGRAM: Air India announced the launch of its first-ever App Fest, offering travellers exciting discounts and benefits when booking flights through the official Air India mobile app (iOS and Android).

GURUGRAM: Air India today announced it will temporarily operate daily flights between Delhi and Prayagraj during the Maha Kumbh Mela 2025, the world’s largest spiritual gathering.

LUDHIANA: MP (Rajya Sabha) from Ludhiana Sanjeev Arora said that Air India has confirmed him that flight operations from Halwara Airport will begin in the future.

NEW DELHI:Tata group-owned Air India becomes the first airline to offer inflight Wi-Fi Internet connectivity services on domestic flights, according to the airline's press release on Wednesday.

NEW DELHI: Air India Express has launched its 'New Year Sale,' offering Xpress Value fares starting at ₹1,599 across major booking channels and Xpress Lite zero check-in bag fares starting from ₹1,448, exclusively for members booking on airindiaexpress.com and the Air India Express mobile app. The sale is open for bookings on domestic flights until 5th January 2025, for travel between 8th January and 20th September 2025 for bookings made at least days in advance.

CHENNAI: Continuous heavy rains have led to the cancellation of four flights of Air India Express that were scheduled to operate and arrive at Chennai Airport on December 12.

SRI VIJAYA PURM: Air India Express marked a significant milestone with the commencement of daily direct flights from Sri Vijaya Puram (Port Blair) to Bengaluru and Kolkata on Sunday. These inaugural flights mark Sri Vijaya Puram’s addition to the rapidly expanding Air India Express network, strengthening the airline’s presence in the region and enhancing connectivity to the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, a key tourist destination. Additionally, the airline commenced daily operations from Jammu to Delhi and Srinagar, today.

NEW DELHI: 30-Bookings for the Air India Express ‘Payday Sale’ are open till 2nd December 2024.November-2024, National: Air India Express has launched its 'Payday Sale,' offering Xpress Value fares starting at ₹1,199 and the exclusive zero baggage Xpress Lite fares starting at ₹1,049. The sale is open for bookings on domestic flights until 2nd December 2024, for travel between 7th January and 31st March 2025.

NEW DELHI: Post Vistara-integration, national carrier Air India on Wednesday announced an optimisation of its domestic route network that will prioritise deployment of its best narrowbody cabin products on five key metro-to-metro routes, beginning December 1.

MUMBAI: The Air India Group on Tuesday completed the operational integration and legal merger between Air India and Vistara, creating a full-service carrier of scale and marking a significant milestone in the post-privatisation transformation journey.

NEW DELHI: Full-service airline Vistara will operate its last flights today as it will be merged with the Air India Group on Tuesday.

NEW DELHI: Air India and Singapore Airlines (SIA) on Wednesday announced to expand their codeshare agreement, adding 11 Indian cities and another 40 international destinations to their network.

GURUGRAM: Air India, India’s leading global airline, announced it has launched simplified and enhanced fare families across cabins. The airline has rebranded its fare families and restructured them to align with the evolving customer preferences across markets.

GURUGRAM: Air India has announced it will start daily, non-stop services between Bengaluru and London Heathrow from 27 October 2024, thus connecting London Heathrow to all three hubs of Air India in India.

CHENNAI: An Air India Express flight to Sharjah that took off from Tamil Nadu's Tirchy International Airport at 5.40 p.m. landed back safely after developing a technical snag, an official said on Friday.

NEW DELHI: National carrier Air India will not be able to operate a number of US-bound flights on Wednesday, the airline said.

NEW DELHI:National carrier Air India has won a significant legal battle in a case of a passenger dispute in the UK.

JAIPUR: Three employees of Air India, accused of having a role in the smuggling of gold, have been arrested, officials said on Friday.They have been accused of having a hand in a recent incident wherein 1.5 kg gold -- stored beneath an aircraft's seat -- was seized.

AMRITSAR: After the opening of Kartarpur corridor, there is more good news for the thousands of pilgrims from Punjab and abroad who visit Takht Sri Hazur Sahib at Nanded, one of the five Sikh Takht (Temporal seat), said Sameep Singh Gumtala, Global Convenor of the FlyAmritsar Initiative and Overseas Secretary of NGO Amritsar Vikas Manch. In a press release, Gumtala shared the information that after facing criticism to suspend Amritsar – Nanded direct flights, Air India will now resume this direct flight from 24th November, 2021.

AMRITSAR: The FlyAmritsar Initiative has asked Air India to continue its direct flights from Sri Guru Ram Dass Jee International Airport Amritsar to Nanded and Rome in Italy from October 31 onwards.

NEW DELHI:The government's final move to privatise the national carrier Air India has given a fresh lease of life to its strategic disinvestment plan.

NEW DELHI:  The new owners of Air India will be decided in the next few days as the financial bids for the flag carrier are being scrutinised, sources said on Friday.

NEW DELHI:The Centre on Wednesday received multiple financial bids for divestment of national carrier Air India.Tata Sons and industrialist Ajay Singh, in his personal capacity, have submitted financial bids for Air India.

NEW DELHI: The likely cause of the Air India Express plane crash at Kozhikode airport in 2020 was the non-adherence of Standard Operating Procedure (SoP) by the pilot in command, an investigation report said on Saturday.

AMRITSAR: The huge demand for more flights between India – UK has led Air India to resume its direct Amritsar – Birmingham direct flight from September 3 onwards. Earlier in the month, UK moved India from red to amber list that relaxed restrictions on passengers arriving from India.

NEW DELHI: An Air India flight with around 129 passengers has left the capital city of Afghanistan, Kabul for Delhi. The AI 244 took off at 6.06 p.m. on Sunday from the Kabul airport.

AMRITSAR: In a big relief for the Punjabi diaspora, Air India has announced resumption of its direct flight services from Sri Guru Ram Das Jee International Airport Amritsar to London Heathrow in the UK starting from August 16.

NEW DELHI: Centre on Thursday informed the Parliament that 56 employees of national carrier Air India have succumbed to Covid-19 pandemic till July 14.
In a written reply during the question hour in Lok Sabha, Minister of State for Civil Aviation General (RETD) V.K. Singh said a total of 3,523 employees of the national carrier have been affected by Covid-19. "Out of this, 56 employees succumbed to the pandemic, till 14th July, 2021."

NEW DELHI:Centre on Thursday informed the Parliament that 56 employees of national carrier Air India have succumbed to Covid-19 pandemic till July 14.

AMRITSAR: The Punjabi diaspora, FlyAmritsar Initiative and Amritsar Vikas Manch, a non-government organization has welcomed the start of direct flight between Amritsar - Rome by the National carrier Air India, two historical cities in the World for the month of February, March and urged the airline to continue these flights after March 2021 as regular scheduled flights.

NEW DELHI:The second phase of the strategic disinvestment of Air India will start on January 5, 2021 with the announcement of the names of the qualified bidders.

NEW DELHI: Air India pilots' associations has asked its members to maintain the printed weekly offs and not to change them.
You are hereby directed to maintain CMS Printed Weekly Offs and Not to change your Printed Weekly Offs. This is for your kind information and strict compliance Contract co-pilots do not come under the purview of this directive Members are advised to contact office bearers in case of any doubts or clarification", the Indian Pilots' Guild and Indian Commercial Pilots' Association said in a joint directive to Air India pilots.

NEW DELHI: Air India pilots have refused to accept the paltry 5 per cent roll back in "illegal pay cut" and asked Air India CMD to donate it towards funds for building the Parliament or PM CARE.

NEW DELHI: A Delhi-based company, Kanti Commercials is leading a consortium along with Fragment Nivesh and Enormous Nivesh who put an EoI for Air India.

NEW DELHI: Air India employees are preparing to bid for the national carrier in partnership with a private equity fund and each employee will be asked to contribute Rs 1 lakh towards the bid.

NEW DELHI: In a relief for passengers flying out of Delhi-NCR, Air India has allowed waiver of no-show charges and one free reschedule to passengers who could not report for their flights amid the traffic disruption during the farmers' protests and the closure of borders.

NEW DELHI:President Ram Nath Kovind on Tuesday boarded the Air India One -- B777 aircraft -- on its inaugural flight to Chennai, said Rashtrapati Bhavan statement.

NEW DELHI: National passenger carrier Air India said on Tuesday that it will introduce regular flights from Amritsar to Nanded in Maharashtra from November 10.

NEW DELHI: Air India's low-cost international subsidiary Air India Express on Wednesday reported its highest-ever net profit, at Rs 412.77 crore for the financial year 2019-20.
The airline had reported a net profit of Rs 169 crore in 2018-19.

NEW DELHI:Air India pilots have sought a follow-up meeting with Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri to put forth the problems being faced by them.
The Indian Commercial Pilots Association and the Indian Pilots Guild have put in a written request to Puri in this regard.

NEW DELHI:Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Puri has called Air India's leave without pay (LWP) scheme a "win-win for employees and management", and pointed out that Air India has not laid off a single employee even as international and domestic carriers have resorted to cost cutting through layoffs.

NEW DELHI: Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Puri has called Air India's leave without pay (LWP) scheme a "win-win for employees and management", and pointed out that Air India has not laid off a single employee even as international and domestic carriers have resorted to cost cutting through layoffs.

KOCHI:A long-cherished demand of the Kerala diaspora and the business community here turned into a reality when an Air India non-stop flight from London landed here on Friday.

NEW DELHI:Air India has informed employees that it is no longer accepting withdrawals of resignations and several cabin crew employees are being relieved as the national carrier has said implicitly "it does not have the financial ability to pay".

NEW DELHI:National carrier Air India on Saturday commenced the fifth phase of the 'Vande Bharat Mission'.
Accordingly, the airline is expected to operate close to 700 flights between India and at least 53 countries during this phase, airline sources 

NEW DELHI:Air India service engineers have joined the unrest on pay cuts and told the management that the 40 per cent pay cut is leading to resentment among the employees leading to a disheartening impact on their mind and health.

NEW DELHI:Air India pilots have told the management that while austerity measures are heaped on pilots, senior officials and management are enjoying lavish perks like free club memberships, scores of leased cars and hundreds of litres of free fuel every month and there has been no cutback.

AMRITSAR/LONDON:Diaspora hails start of direct Air India London Stanstead to Amritsar
Flight to facilitate travel for 550 years Gurpurab celebrations
Punjab gets connected with a direct flight to London after 9 years
Demands direct London Heathrow flight

NEW DELHI:  Grounding of aircraft has cost Air India dearly but frequent breakdowns of its flights in foreign cities such as Paris, Chicago and Tel Aviv has taken a heavy toll on the airline's precarious finances in recent months.

MUMBAI:  Marking a new aviation milestone, the Air India (AI) on Monday announced its inaugural passenger flight over the North Pole region from August 15 between New Delhi and San Francisco.

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.

NEW DELHI:  Days after allegations of sexual harassment against an Air India commander, a senior pilot of the airline has come under the scanner for suppression of information regarding similar charges.