Air India Ground Staff

Ground staff and crew members at Odisha's Biju Patnaik International Airport bid an emotional goodbye to the last Vistara flight on Monday.

Tata Group-owned Air India has partnered with fashion designer Manish Malhotra to design new uniforms for the airline's more than 10,000 flight crew, ground staff and security personnel.

The first batch of five Rafale jets are likely to arrive in India from France by July end, the Indian Air Force said. The aircraft will officially be inducted on July 29, it said in a statement, adding aircrew and ground staff have been extensively trained to operate the technologically advance fighters.

The ground floor of Air India's Centaur Hotel in Delhi was sealed on Wednesday for two days for sanitisation after a crew member tested at the temporary facility in the hotel tested positive for coronavirus, senior airline officials said.

Tribal villagers had witnessed "thick black smoke" originating from a mountain towards Molo village in Arunachal Pradesh on Monday after an An-32 aircraft of the IAF lost contact with the ground staff on Monday afternoon.

An Air India flight, grounded in London for 48 hours due to a technical snag, left about 300 passengers in a lurch. Tempers were running high, one passenger recalled, when they arrived at the hotel on day 1 and met with an airline staff member who they say was "not confident with her updates".

Korean Air will hold a two-day "road show" in Delhi on Friday and Saturday to hire pilots from the grounded Jet Airways which has seen an exodus of staff in the wake of suspension of operations.

Air India has been forced to ground as many as 20 of its aircraft from a fleet of 127 due to lack of funds to replace their engines, a senior official has said.

Declaring himself "unofficially", the "ambassador of Air India", Mr Khan thanked the ground staff and the pilots for a hospitable journey.

A strike by a section of employees of Air-India's ground handling subsidiary, AIATSL, over non-payment of Diwali bonus and other issues, was called off late Thursday, a senior official said.

Cracking the whip on its over-weight cabin staff, the government-owned Air India has temporarily taken off 57 crew members from flying and put them on ground duty.

A passenger and two ground handling staff were caught while allegedly attempting to smuggle gold biscuits valued at Rs 35 lakhs, out of the Chennai international airport in Chennai today, an official of Directorate of Revenue Intelligence said.

Cracking the whip against negligent Air India employees, Civil Aviation Minister Ashok Gajapathi Raju on Saturday suspended ground handling and security officers for lapses in detecting a dummy grenade in one of the airline's planes that was to operate from Jeddah to Mumbai.

Chief of the Air Staff, Air Chief Marshal Arup Raha today reviewed the Combined Graduation Parade of 193 flight cadets belonging to Pilot, Navigation and Ground Duty streams at Air Force Academy, Dundigal, near in Hydrabad.

A meeting of 7 unions under a joint front comprising pilots, engineers, a ground handling staff and technical staff will meet on Friday.

Ground staff and crew members at Odisha's Biju Patnaik International Airport bid an emotional goodbye to the last Vistara flight on Monday.

Tata Group-owned Air India has partnered with fashion designer Manish Malhotra to design new uniforms for the airline's more than 10,000 flight crew, ground staff and security personnel.

The first batch of five Rafale jets are likely to arrive in India from France by July end, the Indian Air Force said. The aircraft will officially be inducted on July 29, it said in a statement, adding aircrew and ground staff have been extensively trained to operate the technologically advance fighters.

The ground floor of Air India's Centaur Hotel in Delhi was sealed on Wednesday for two days for sanitisation after a crew member tested at the temporary facility in the hotel tested positive for coronavirus, senior airline officials said.

Tribal villagers had witnessed "thick black smoke" originating from a mountain towards Molo village in Arunachal Pradesh on Monday after an An-32 aircraft of the IAF lost contact with the ground staff on Monday afternoon.

An Air India flight, grounded in London for 48 hours due to a technical snag, left about 300 passengers in a lurch. Tempers were running high, one passenger recalled, when they arrived at the hotel on day 1 and met with an airline staff member who they say was "not confident with her updates".

Korean Air will hold a two-day "road show" in Delhi on Friday and Saturday to hire pilots from the grounded Jet Airways which has seen an exodus of staff in the wake of suspension of operations.

Air India has been forced to ground as many as 20 of its aircraft from a fleet of 127 due to lack of funds to replace their engines, a senior official has said.

Declaring himself "unofficially", the "ambassador of Air India", Mr Khan thanked the ground staff and the pilots for a hospitable journey.

A strike by a section of employees of Air-India's ground handling subsidiary, AIATSL, over non-payment of Diwali bonus and other issues, was called off late Thursday, a senior official said.

Cracking the whip on its over-weight cabin staff, the government-owned Air India has temporarily taken off 57 crew members from flying and put them on ground duty.

A passenger and two ground handling staff were caught while allegedly attempting to smuggle gold biscuits valued at Rs 35 lakhs, out of the Chennai international airport in Chennai today, an official of Directorate of Revenue Intelligence said.

Cracking the whip against negligent Air India employees, Civil Aviation Minister Ashok Gajapathi Raju on Saturday suspended ground handling and security officers for lapses in detecting a dummy grenade in one of the airline's planes that was to operate from Jeddah to Mumbai.

Chief of the Air Staff, Air Chief Marshal Arup Raha today reviewed the Combined Graduation Parade of 193 flight cadets belonging to Pilot, Navigation and Ground Duty streams at Air Force Academy, Dundigal, near in Hydrabad.

A meeting of 7 unions under a joint front comprising pilots, engineers, a ground handling staff and technical staff will meet on Friday.