Category: Civil Aviation

More than 1,000 Monday flights into or out of the United States have been canceled due to a severe winter storm, with about half of those coming from Southwest Airlines Co. A total of 1,019 flights were canceled as of 6:00 pm ET, according to flight-tracking service FlightAware. Low-cost carrier Southwest earlier this month faced […]

Happiness is often hidden in the simplest of things. And, Twitter is now in love with one such moment shared by a man on the microblogging site. The man tweeted an image to show his first ever flight at the age of 27. Chances are, his moment of joy will leave you smiling too. Twitter […]

The Directorate General of Civil Aviation on Tuesday slapped a ₹10 lakh fine on Air India for not reporting twin incidents of passengers’ misbehavuour on board an AI-142 flight from Paris to New Delhi on December 6 last year. In a statement, the airline regulator said two incidents occurred on the Paris-New Delhi flight. In […]

After a series of incidents involving ‘drunk’ and unruly passengers, including the detestable urination episode on New York to Delhi flight in November, Air India on Tuesday announced that it has made “some adjustments” to the existing in-flight alcohol service policy. “We have reviewed our existing in-flight alcohol service policy taking reference from other carriers’ […]

New Delhi: Air India on Tuesday accepted that it did not correctly classify , and therefore, did not report the incident on flight AI102 where a drunk passenger urinated on an elderly woman. In a statement issued on Tuesday, the airline also added that it would help the pilot, who was de-rostered by the aviation […]

Mumbai: A drunk passenger on board an Indigo Airlines Chennai-Mumbai flight was arrested by the Sahar police in the early hours of Monday after the crew lodged a complaint against him for creating a ruckus during take-off. According to the crew, the passenger, identified as Darshan Parekh, 35, was drunk and refused to follow safety […]

All India Cabin Crew Association (AICCA), the cabin crew body of the airline on Monday demanded a rollback on the de-rostering of the crew that operated the Air India New York- Delhi flight where in November last year, a male passenger allegedly urinated on a female co-passenger “The AICCA has perused the DGCA press note […]

Amazon.com Inc. is beginning air freight services in India, expanding in Asia even as global online sales growth stalls following a pandemic-era boom. The e-commerce retail giant will use cargo capacity in a Boeing 737-800 aircraft operated by partner Quikjet Cargo Airlines Pvt to begin shipments in Hyderabad, Bangalore, New Delhi and Mumbai, said Akhil […]

Two passengers were de-boarded from a Delhi-Hyderabad SpiceJet flight at Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International (IGI) Airport on Monday afternoon after one of them allegedly touched a member of the cabin crew in an inappropriate manner and displayed “unruly behaviour” prior to the flight taking off. The man and his co-passenger were then handed over to […]

Days after the Directorate General of Civil Aviation or DGCA sought a report from Scoot Airlines regarding the January 18 flight – which departed from Amritsar to Singapore reportedly without taking as many as 32 passengers – the budget carrier on Saturday said the timing of the flight was changed on account of the “prevailing […]

Qantas Airways Ltd., the airline whose stellar safety record was made famous by Hollywood, is back in the spotlight after a flurry of mechanical malfunctions. The Australian airline has been hit by a spate of in-flight issues since the middle of last week, starting with a mayday alert and engine shutdown on a plane from […]

The Directorate General of Civil Aviation – or DGCA – has imposed a fine of ₹30 lakh on Air India for failing to comply with applicable rules in the November 26 urination case. Based on Air India’s response, the aviation regulator imposed a financial penalty of ₹30 lakh on the airline for violation of applicable […]