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Monday, September 1, 2025
TopicIndian Airlines

Topic: Indian Airlines

IndiGo cancels flights to 6 airports for 13 May amid India-Pakistan tensions

The 6 airports are among those that were reopened for civilian flights Monday after being temporarily shut.

Indian pilots are tired, anxious, and underpaid

While expatriate pilots are hired at significantly higher salaries, Indian pilots’ salaries have been stagnant for over a decade, with allowances even being reduced after the Covid-19 pandemic.

India’s aviation paradox: Packed flights, yet next 2 years likely to see return to losses

ICRA highlights 4 major factors affecting Indian airlines—high aviation turbine fuel prices, rupee depreciation, intense competition & supply chain disruptions.

Are flight bomb threats pranks or conspiracy? Cost of ‘hoax’ to Indian aviation is real

Over 510 flights have been hit by hoax bomb threats in the past couple of weeks. Despite arrests and suspicions of Sikh radical links, authorities still have no clear answers.

No headway into who sent hoax calls to Indian airlines

New Delhi: Efforts and analysis of security agencies to trace preparators of hoax call threats have fallen flat. A senior official said that several teams...

DGCA fines Air India Rs 90 lakh for operating flight with non-qualified crew

The civil aviation regulator found deficiencies and multiple violations of provisions by several post holders and staff, which could significantly affect safety.

Air India flew 13.5% of domestic passengers till June but accounted for 70% denied boarding. Here’s why

Aviation analysts say airlines deny passengers boarding for 3 reasons — when flight has been overbooked, a last minute-change in aircraft, or technical fuel & weight requirements.

As Microsoft outage disrupts flights, banking & business, Indian airlines switch to manual check-in

The global tech outage has affected several airlines including Akasa, SpiceJet & IndiGo. Electronics & IT minister says 'reason for outage identified' & govt is in touch with Microsoft.

Indian airlines are on path to capture 50% of market for international travel to & from the country

Adding new routes and more aircraft, Indian airlines are now looking to cash in on the post-pandemic surge in international travellers.

Murlidhar Bhandare’s son almost missed his exams in 1973. Rajiv Gandhi came to his rescue

In ‘The Arc of Memory’, Murlidhar C Bhandare, Congress leader and former governor of Odisha recounts his life events set to the backdrop of India’s history.

On Camera

India has 30 days to pull off fast reform. Hold crash meeting of Centre & state

In India, we are accustomed to glacial change. We love appointing Committees to ‘look into’ reform. Unfortunately for us, the rest of the world moves fast.

A Rs 33,000 cr ‘banking fraud’: ED’s case against Arvind Dham, Amtek’s web of ‘500 shell companies’

ED has accused Amtek promoter Arvind Dham of controlling web of nearly 500 shell companies operating as a layered structure, with up to 15 levels of indirect ownership, to divert funds.

‘Real-time, all-climate’ explosives detector could enhance airport & border security—no dogs, no swabs

Bengaluru-based CeNS designs accurate, portable, and cheap sensor using surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy. It could significantly reduce risks at vulnerable choke points. 

For Indian Mercedes, Asim Munir’s dumper truck in mirror is closer than it appears

From Munir’s point of view, a few bumps here and there is par for the course. He isn’t going to drive his dumper truck to its doom. He wants to use it as a weapon.