Mittu Chandilya appointed CEO of Air Asia India

The Chairman and Managing Director of Air India, Mr. Rohit Nandan, and the entire airline board will travel on the Boeing 787 aircraft on a scheduled flight between Delhi and Kolkata on Wednesday. This will be the 1st commercial flight since the 6 ...

State-owned carrier Air India is set to resume operations of the Boeing 787 Dreamliners on two domestic routes from tomorrow and on one international route from May 22, post the completion of modification of batteries by the aircraft manufacturer.

The fortunes of Air India could be changing. A combination of the airlines Boards decision to lease 19 Airbus A-320 aircraft and the reintroduction of the newest civilian aircraft the Boeing 787 could prove to be a game changer for the State-owned airline.

Facing a court case for allegedly turning a blind eye towards safety violations on-board some international Air India flights, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has rapped the national carrier. Sources said the regulator has told the airline to ...

The Ministry of Civil Aviation (MoCA) has recommended the names of retired Air Marshal K K Nohwar (former vice-chief of the Indian Air Force); private equity fund manager Renuka Ramnath; writer and former chief of P&G India Gurcharan Das; founder ...

Air India is set to replace all its eight Boeing B-777 (LR) aircraft with the help of the U.S. aircraft manufacturer and make the B-787 Dreamliners its workhorse over the next few years. The announcement by Air India CMD Rohit Nandan came on a day ...

Move comes two years after the airline ousted professionals who were taken on board to help turn

The pilot of a Bangalore-bound Air India aircraft, with around 125 passengers on board, landed under emergency conditions at Bhopal airport when he found the cockpit door jammed as he tried to open it to visit the washroom, airline sources said on Tuesday. The pilot of Airbus A-320, operating flight AI-403 from Delhi, made the landing on Monday evening under emergency conditions at RajaBhojAirport in Bhopal. He wanted to go to the washroom but he found the door locked, they said.The flight had ...

Air India lived up to its rather dubious reputation once again as another incident in the air created panic among the passengers on board and forced an emergency landing. The national carrier's flight AI-403 from New Delhi to Bangalore on Monday ...