Passengers traveling to Gulf nations faced turmoil as Air India Express abruptly canceled over 86 flights due to more than 300 cabin crew members calling in sick. Angry flyers staged protests at airports in Delhi, Kochi, Kozhikode, and Thiruvananthapuram, demanding answers and immediate solutions.
Following mass flight cancellations from Vistara early last month, now more than 70 flights were cancelled by Air India Express from Tuesday night to Wednesday morning
On Saturday, April 13, an IndiGo flight from Ayodhya to Delhi was grounded after it had to divert to Chandigarh with barely any fuel left. The incident has raised safety concerns, with passengers and a retired pilot alleging that IndiGo violated standard operating procedures (SOPs).
The increasing tension between Iran and Israel has started affecting Indian air travel as well. Air India flights today avoided Iranian airspace as tensions escalated in the Middle East after Iran warned of retaliatory strikes on Israel.
A passenger on a Delhi-Bengaluru flight slammed Air India after receiving a broken window seat despite paying additional money for it. The incident unfolded on Thursday, April 4 when the passenger acknowledged the broken seat, following which the airline enlisted the help of an engineer. The engineer, however, could not fix the broken seat, the passenger claimed.
Earlier, Tata-owned airline Vistara has canceled several flights due to crew shortage and its pilots are protesting against the airline's decision to merge with Air India, wage revision and rostering issues.
A video doing rounds on social media shows passengers jumping out of the plane - an Airbus A321neo - via emergency slides at Charlotte Douglas airport. There were 226 passengers on the flight and they exited the plane using the jet bridge and evacuation slides, the outlet further said.
In yet another turn of events, an Ahmedabad-bound IndiGo flight from Patna was diverted to Madhya Pradesh's Indore due to a medical emergency onboard, the airlines said on Friday (March 29). The crew provided necessary assistance to the unwell passenger, it added.
Indigo flyer Shrankhla Srivastava, an X (formerly Twitter) user, dropped a picture on Saturday of her destroyed luggage after her flight. "Dear @IndiGo6E, Thank you for taking care of my luggage," the user wrote in a sarcastic post and tagged the airlines.
In an unusual development, an air hostess working with Pakistan International Airlines flew from Islamabad to Toronto without her passport, prompting the Canadian authorities to slap a fine of 200 dollars on her, according to a media report on Sunday.
