The Air India Express is set to launch services on the Chennai-Tiruchi-Chennai sector next month. The daily service will commence from March 22, which is expected to enhance domestic traffic movements at the Tiruchi airport. As per the timing, the airline’s flight from Chennai will leave at 6.45 p.m. and reach Tiruchi at 7.45 p.m. In … Read more
After its merger with Vistara, Air India has launched a newer version of its frequent flyer programme — Maharaja Club. The revised programme offers a range of advantages for participants, regardless of their frequency of travel. Air India introduced its frequent flyer program in 1994, originally known as Flying Returns, making it one of the … Read more
This technology may help restore passenger confidence in safe flying at a time when the aviation sector is struggling to increase air traffic to the pre-Covid level. At a time when people are still not very comfortable with travelling, including air travel, due to the threat of transmission of coronavirus, low-cost airline Air India Express … Read more
Earlier, the Union Home Minister issued guidelines for international air travel. (Reuters image) Traveling to the United Arab Emirates (UAE)? Air India has laid down criteria before the passengers for traveling to UAE. Air India Express has said passengers aged 12 years and above must possess a valid negative COVID19 PCR test report in printed … Read more
New Delhi: The Air India Express crash late on Friday at the Kozhikode international airport could have been due to the aircraft landing 1,000 metres beyond the touchdown point because of inclement weather, aviation experts and officials told ET. Bad weather was clearly one of the key factors for the crash, which killed about 18 … Read more
(This story originally appeared in on Aug 09, 2020) The civil aviation ministry’s Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) retrieved on Saturday the digital flight data recorder (DFDR), known as a black box, and the cockpit voice recorder from the wreckage of Air India Express Dubai-Kozhikode Flight IX 1344. Eighteen people, including the pilot and co-pilot, … Read more
All issues such as excessive rubber deposits, water stagnation and cracks that were red-flagged by aviation regulator DGCA in the past were “addressed and rectified” by the Kozhikode airport operator, said Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri on Saturday. The minister’s statement came after various news reports stated that the Directorate General of Civil Aviation … Read more
A selfie taken by Sharufudheen Pillassery, along with his wife and three-year-old daughter in PPE kits inside the Air India Express flight from Dubai that crashed here, has gone viral as reports emerged that the journey turned out to be his last trip. Before take off, Pillassery had posted the selfie, on his Facebook page … Read more
One may call it good luck, but for two Indian expats it was God who prevented them at the last minute from boarding the Air India Express plane that crashed in Kerala, killing at least 18 people on board. According to India’s Civil Aviation Ministry, the Boeing 737 aircraft on a flight from Dubai to … Read more
Back in 2010, an Air India Express aircraft overshot the runway at Mangalore airport, fell into a gorge, caught fire and 158 people lost their lives. And the crash of the airline’s plane in Kozhikode on Friday is a stark reminder of that accident ten years ago. In both instances, Air India Express pilots had … Read more