All Air India articles
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AnalysisAirline CEO changes in 2022 dominated by appointment of women and upheaval in India
The global airline executives gathering in Doha for this year’s IATA AGM will reflect recent trends including better gender diversity among incumbents and big changes at Indian carriers
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Newsletter
India’s airline market set for string of significant changes
India’s airlines have provided plenty of talking points in recent weeks, with the country’s market promising to be one to watch as it emerges from the pandemic.
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Scoot chief to take the helm of Air India
Scoot chief executive Campbell Wilson is to step down from the SIA Group low-cost unit in mid-June to head newly-privatised Air India.
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Former Turkish chairman turns down Air India chief executive role
Former Turkish Airlines chairman Ilker Ayci has turned down the chief executive role at Air India, two weeks after the airline’s new owners Tata Sons announced his appointment.
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Tata formally takes the reins of Air India
Indian conglomerate Tata Group has formally completed its acquistion of Air India.
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In depth
Which airlines launched, failed or merged in 2021?
One of the most counter-intuitive things about the pandemic for the airline sector has been that during the worst crisis the industry has ever faced, relatively few carriers have collapsed.
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Air India not liable after 'whole journey' ruling on delayed UK flight sector
Air India has successfully defended itself against a compensation claim after a UK judge ruled that a delay to a flight operating one leg of a multi-stop journey could not be considered separate from the journey as a whole. The passenger claiming compensation had flown from Kansas City to Bengaluru ...
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IndiGo chief welcomes competition from ‘formidable force’ of privatised Air India
The chief executive of Indian low-cost carrier IndiGo believes a privatised Air India will be a ‘formidable force’ but welcomes the move as a positive step for the country.
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Tata confirms selection as winning Air India bidder
Executives from Indian conglomerate Tata Sons have confirmed the group has won the bidding for struggline national carrier Air India.
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Tata Sons among bidders for Air India
Indian conglomerate Tata Sons is among those to submit bids for the renewed attempt to sell Air India, the deadline for which passed today.
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Rescue crews’ unfamiliarity with 737 delayed evacuation of Air India Express crash pilots
Pilots of the Air India Express Boeing 737-800 which overran after landing long at Kozhikode last year were not extracted from the wreckage for an hour because rescue personnel were not familiar with the aircraft type, investigators have disclosed. The 737 came to rest on a steep embankment after overrunning ...
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Cocktail of diabetes drugs could have impaired fatal 737 overrun captain
Investigators probing the fatal Air India Express Boeing 737-800 overrun at Kozhikode last year have raised the possibility that the captain’s decision-making might have been impaired by hypoglycaemia, a reduction in blood-sugar levels. Twenty-one of the 190 occupants, including both pilots, sustained fatal injuries after the jet landed long in ...
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Air India Express 737 crash captain did not respond to go-around call
Investigators have revealed that the first officer of an Air India Express Boeing 737-800 unsuccessfully tried to convince the captain to abort an unstable second approach to Kozhikode before the jet landed long in a tailwind and fatally overran. The inquiry believes the captain was under “misplaced motivation” pressure to ...
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Analysis
Which commercial airlines served Kabul before the Taliban advance?
The chaos surrounding operations at Hamid Karzai International airport in recent days affects a number of international operators, including Emirates and Turkish Airlines.
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Civil aviation minister forecasts bleak 2020 results for Air India
Air India is forecast to widen its full-year net loss to Rs97.8 billion ($1.35 billion), even as the Indian government reiterated its support for the long-drawn divestment of the national carrier.
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Analysis
Indian airlines brace for transformational 2021
Three major themes will shape India’s airline sector this year: vaccinations, a battle for survival at India’s smaller carriers, and consolidation.
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News
Air India sale delayed as government scraps shortlist deadline
India’s government has hit another stumbling block in its years-in-the-making sale of flag carrier Air India . The timeline for the sale is now uncertain after the government decided against informing bidders today as to whether they had been shortlisted. Source: Boeing It had ...
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Air India A320 left with 600m to stop after unstable approach
Pilots of an Air India Airbus A320 were left with just 600m in which to bring the aircraft to a halt after the jet landed long at Surat following an unstable approach. The threshold of Surat’s runway 22 had already been displaced by 1,000m leaving an available landing distance ...
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Indian regional Alliance Air posts first profit prior to pandemic
Air India regional unit Alliance Air posted its first ever operating profit in the year immediately prior to the global pandemic hitting air travel demand.
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Deal restores flights between India and Germany
India has struck a deal to restore flights to Germany, which had ended abruptly in late September amid a row over parity of services.
