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Air India pilot demands particular woman co-pilot, delays flight

As many as 110 passengers onboard an Air India aircraft were forced to sit in the plane for two and half hours on Wednesday after its commander insisted for a “particular woman” co-pilot to operate the flight. The incident happened at Air India’s flight to Male from Chennai via Thiruvananthapuram, sources said. In between, the commander also complained of high blood pressur...

Tata Sons invokes Air India, seeks fair play from rivals

Tata Sons Ltd on Tuesday said the group also had to face unfair hurdles in the aviation space in the past and sought fair play for its new airlines. Tata Sons’ Vistara and AirAsia airlines are asking the government to relax rules that would allow them to fly on international routes. Older airlines IndiGo, Jet Airways, GoAir and SpiceJet are lobbying to prevent a rule relaxation. Existi...

Air India to dock salaries of pilots refusing to fly at 11th hour

National carrier Air India (AI) has decided to dock salaries of pilots who pull out of flights for which they are rostered for at the eleventh hour. According to the new pay structure cleared by the government, if a pilot refuses to operate a flight, which he has been rostered for, he would be liable for reduction of double flight hours from his flying allowance. The new pay structure, as fi...

Perpetrator of 1985 Air India Bombings, Which Killed 331, Freed From Jail

It was the deadliest terrorist strike involving an aircraft until the September 11 attacks. The only convicted perpetrator of the 1985 Air India bombings was released from a Canadian prison on Wednesday, the Times of India reports. Inderjit Singh Reyat, a Sikh who emigrated to Canada, had served more than two decades in jail for building the two suitcase bombs involved in the plot,...

Air India employee sucked into aircraft engine

Ravi Subramanian, an Air India technician, died on Wednesday (December 16) after he was sucked into the engine of a parked plane at Mumbai’s Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport. When the Mumbai-Hyderabad flight AI 619 began its pushback at 8.46 pm, Subramanian got pulled into the engine and died instantly. Airport sources say his body is severely mutilated. The airline has ordered a...

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Air India pilot demands particular woman co-pilot, delays flight

Tata Sons invokes Air India, seeks fair play from rivals

Air India to dock salaries of pilots refusing to fly at 11th hour

Perpetrator of 1985 Air India Bombings, Which Killed 331, Freed From Jail

Air India employee sucked into aircraft engine

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