The Air India special flight that was arranged by Indian authorities to ferry Sarabjit Singh's body back to India, has taken off from Lahore. The mortal remains of Sarabjit will be handed over to officials in India shortly. His body will be taken to his ancest...
Mihin Lanka, decides to stop operations from Trichy to Sri Lanka, due to falling traffic. Mihin Lanka operates four flights to Sri Lanka from Trichy every day, and due to the recent anti-Sri Lanka protests in Tamil Nadu, tourist traffic has drastically decreas...
One of the most popular narrow-body jet airliner - Boeing 737 celebrates 46 years of flying today. The first ever flight of this airliner took place on April 9, 1967. It also remains one of the best selling aircrafts in history.
BJP chief Rajnath Singh had a narrow escape after the place in which he was travelling, along with Sushma Swaraj and Arun Jaitley, had to make an emergency landing.
Flight operations were struck by a major fire that broke out at the air traffic control room in Chennai airport in the wee hours of the morning. No casualty has been reported yet. Airport officials have informed that the fire will soon be brought under control...
Air France flight makes an emergency landing due to engine failure. The flight, which was carrying 213 passengers took off from the Mumbai international airport today morning and made an emergency landing in Mumbai after a mid-air failure. The engineers of the...
The northern states on the East Coast of the United States have been hit by a storm that has blanketed the region with snow. Many flights had to be cancelled, and authorities are asking citizens not to travel unless it is absolutely necessary.
After a long 22 year halt, Iraqi airways resumes service to Kuwait in an attempt to improve the strained relations between the two nations. After Saddam Hussein's 1990 invasion of Kuwait, all the flight services between the two countries were suspended. It is ...
Air India joins the fare war unleashed by various domestic carriers by offering special fares and discounts of up to 40 per cent on one-way regular fares on domestic flights. Air India has priced a one-way ticket from Calcutta to New Delhi on March 1 at Rs 3,1...
Bahrain's budget airline, Bahrain Air grounds all its flights and says it will liquidate its assets. The company blames its financial crisis on the political unrest in the island kingdom and the government's refusal to pay it compensation. The struggling Middl...
At least two people have died and more than 6 lakh left homeless after a massive blizzard hit the US east coast. Winter storm 'Nemo' is turning out to be one of the worst blizzards US has seen.
The radar at Delhi's IGI airport fails, leaving screens at the Air Traffic Control towers blank. The ATC went into manual mode and staff stood on the tarmac to guide the aircraft. This is not the first time that the radar at this airport has failed.
Acrobatics while flying can be difficult, if not downright risky. But a group of fliers and trained women have taken to the skies for such thrilling display of poise and training. These girls are part of the Breitling Wingwalkers. The Breitling girls perform o...
Russian lawmakers are considering banning passengers from carrying duty-free alcohol on board after a series of drunken brawls on international flights.
Flight operations came to a standstill at the Indira Gandhi International Airport in Delhi due to dense fog which reduced visibility to below 50 metres and affected the schedule of over 50 flights. Over 60 domestic flights and 14 international flights have bee...
Delhi and the NCR region woke up to a thick fog on Friday morning, disrupting road, air and rail traffic across north India. The current visibility is just above 50 meters, making it difficult for traffic on the airport runway. The rail services have been hit....
Delhi and the NCR region woke up to a thick fog on Friday morning, disrupting road, air and rail traffic across north India. The current visibility is just above 50 meters, making it difficult for traffic on the airport runway.
The winters show no signs of relenting. The fog has returned once again to the capital. The thick fog cover has reduced the visibility which has caused delay in many flights at the Indira Gandhi International Airport. The mercury fell once again in Delhi and t...
Go Air flight makes an emergency landing in the Chennai airport, due to smoke at the rear end of the aircraft. Reports claim that all passengers are safe. The Go Air flight G8302 took off from the Chennai airport to Mumbai but returned midway as the crew in th...
The new year has brought with it many records this winter. The mercury has been falling drastically across North India. Delhi, in fact has recorded some of its lowest temperatures in the past 44 years. On Sunday, the national capital recorded a temperature of ...
The days continue to get colder in Delhi and other States in north India. The temperature in the capital was recorded at 2.4 degree celsius at 6 AM. The fog cover continues over many North Indian cities as well. Rail as well as flight services have been affect...
Cold winds from the Himalayas descending on the Gangetic plains have dipped mercury levels and made life miserable for people across North India. From Punjab to Assam plains, the region is in the grip of a cold wave. In Uttar Pradesh, 107 people have lost thei...
Delhi and the NCR regions continue to be covered by thick fog. Trains are running almost 12 hours late. Some trains are being diverted. Across North India, cold and fog have increased difficulties for people. The minimum temperatures have dropped due to wind v...
The Mount Elizabeth Hospital in Singapore, where the 23-year-old gangrape survivor was flown to late on Wednesday night, in its statement says she remains critical and is not in a condition to undergo surgery. The hospital says she suffered a heart attack befo...
The effect of fog on air and rail traffic has been severe at Delhi. Over 8 flights have been delayed, 9 took-off late, while 13 flights were cancelled. Trains are moving slow, specially those travelling to north and eastern India. Over 80 trains are delayed, 6...
Delhi has been enveloped by what is being described as the densest fog of the season. Visibility has been reduced to just 50 metres, rail traffic has slowed down, and nine flights have been cancelled. Fog is also dense across a wide swathe of NCR region, Bihar...
Air India has arranged a special flight named 'Wings of Love' for physically challenged children and homeless old people. Malayalam movie actors Suresh Krishna and Sajan Palluruthy and footballer IM Vijayan too have joined the flight.
An orbit-bound crew has blasted off from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Aboard the spacecraft are flight engineers Canadian Chris Hadfield is joined by US astronaut Tom Mashburn and Russian cosmonaut Roman Romanenko. It will take them two days to join ...
A Jaguar fighter aircraft of Indian Air Force, which was on a routine flight, has crashed in North Sikkim. The reasons for this crash haven't yet been known. The pilot of the aircraft is feared dead.
Argentina's capital and several other cities in the country are now in the grip of Union strikes. Hundreds of flights have been cancelled and the lines of transport on the ground have been closed. The Unions are staging a mass protest over the poor economy, ri...
The passenger who fought with the air hostess aboard the Indigo Airlines' Delhi to Mumbai flight, and was later overpowered by other passengers, is mentally unsound, say his relatives. Mohammed Sheikh had even slapped the air hostess. The flight had to make an...
Days after Hurricane Sandy hit hard on the US east coast, another storm is brewing. And the area to be affected are nearly the same: New York and its environs. Flights have been cancelled from JFK airprort. A storm hit the US before the Presidential elections,...
A passenger shoots on his mobile phone the hungama on a Delhi-Mumbai flight. A passenger took to staring at a lady sitting behind him, and when she objected and complained to the air-hostess, he engaged in a fight with her and the crew. He tried to go to the c...
A passenger aboard the Mumbai-Delhi Indigo Airlines flight was offloaded from the flight after a fight with the cabin crew and other passengers. This passenger was staring at a woman who objected, and complained to the air hostess. The intervention of the air ...
There was high drama on a Mumbai-Delhi Indigo flight on Wednesday when a passenger turned violent, manhandled other passengers and the crew and even tried to enter into the cockpit. Airline sources said that the drama began when one of the female passengers in...
A man created a mid-air scare on board a Delhi-bound Indigo flight, when he threatened a co-passenger saying that he would not let the flight land. The Muslim man also slapped one of the air-hostesses. He reportedly deals with second hand cars and is a residen...
A passenger onboard a Mumbai-Delhi Indigo flight on Wednesday allegedly triggered a high drama when he turned violent and slapped an airhostess. The passengers onboard the Indigo fight, however, managed to overpower him. The plane landed at New Delhi's Indira ...
Rupali Wagmore, the woman pilot of the Air India flight involved in the hijack alarm case said she was compelled to act as a hijack-like situation prevailed with protests by passengers after the Abu Dhabi-Kochi flight was diverted on October 19. Rupali Wagmore...
Civil Aviation Minister Ajit Singh has assured that the problems faced by fliers due to frequent cancellations of Gulf-bound flights will be solved before January 2013. Overseas Indian Affairs Minister Vayalar Ravi had met Ajit Singh to brief him about the pro...
Collision between an Indigo flight and a Spicejet flight has been averted midair. The Indigo flight, while descending to land in the Mumbai Airport received an alert about Spicejet flight. The tragedy was averted when the Indigo flight was instructed to descen...
Boats on railway tracks. Heaps of cars still buried under water. Seaside housing colonies desolated, destroyed. Nearly half of eastern United States in darkness. Hurricane Sandy may have passed across the US east coast, but it has left a trail of destruction a...
A Delhi Court has convicted a passenger named Jitender Mohalla for his lead role in the hijack drama aboard Indigo flight from Goa to Delhi in 2009. The Court has pronounced life sentence to Mohalla. Observing the crime to be serious in nature the Court has se...
Hurricane Sandy finally hit the US east coast, with waves as high as several feet and wind speeds of 150 kmph. The hurricane has left over one lakh people left with electricity. New York would be the hardest hit. The US would face losses upto 20 billions dolla...
Hurricane Sandy has stranded thousands of air passengers across both the east coast of the US, where the hurricane is expected to land, and the west coast where many connecting domestic and international had to be cancelled.
The passengers of Air India Abu Dhabi-Kochi flight were today questioned by the special investigation team (SIT) in connection with the hijack alarm incident at the international airport in Thiruvananthapuram. The passengers are asked to report at Valiyathura ...
Four passengers of the six accused of trying to hijack the Abu Dhabi-Kochi Air India Express flight arrived at Kochi airport to testify in the case. Among the other two accused passengers, Rashid didn't appear stating his father's demise as reason and Augustin...
Turkey has reportedly intercepted another Syria-bound plane flying through its airspace. An American jet was grounded and checked for weapons in the second such case. A week before, a Syria-bound passenger flight from Moscow was forced to land.
The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) suspends the flying licence of Kingfisher Airlines for failing to come up with a viable financial revival plan. The Vijay Mallya-promoted airline, which has not operated a single flight since October 1, had been...
A Special Investigation Team (SIT) have been formed to look into the hijack drama in connection with the hijack alarm incident involving an Air India flight, AIE 4422, at the Thiruvananthapuram international airport. The SIT to probe whther the passengers had ...
Reacting to the Kochi-Abu Dhabi flight hijack, Union Minister Vayalar Ravi says that communication gap between the passengers and the AI officials caused the crisis. The passengers were reportedly infuriated when they were informed that they will be taken to t...
Times Now brings to you exclusive visuals of the struggle that took place between AI officials supported by cops and the passengers aboard the Kochi-Abu Dhabi flight. The video, shot by a passenger, shows how they were forcefully evicted from the flight. The p...
Times Now brings the exclusive video footage of the 'hijack' that took place on the Kochi-Abu Dhabi flight. There are two versions of the story doing the rounds; one of the authorities and other of the passengers. This exclusive footage shot by a passenger sho...
The eight-hour-long drama at the Thiruvananthapuram airport has finally ended as the Air India flight which courted controversy has reached Kochi airport. There are reports that six passengers of the flight have been detained. Passengers have also alleged that...
Four of the passengers aboard the Air India flight, which raised a 'hijack' alarm earlier in the day, have been detained at the Kochi international airport. They are being questioned at the moment. The Air India Express flight headed to Kochi from Abu Dhabi ma...
The nine-hour-long drama at the Thiruvananthapuram airport has ended as the Air India flight which courted controversy has finally taken off. The Air India Express flight headed to Kochi from Abu Dhabi made an emergency at the Thiruvananthapuram airport due to...
The DGCA has ordered a probe into the hijack scare that played out at the Thiruvananthapuram International Airport earlier today. After more than a 13-hour ordeal, the passengers of Air India Express 4422 can finally breathe a sigh of relief as the flight take...
After more than a 13-hour ordeal, the passengers of Air India Express 4422 can finally breathe a sigh of relief as the flight takes off. The Air India Express flight headed to Kochi from Abu Dhabi made an emergency at the Thiruvananthapuram airport due to bad ...
An Air India Express flight headed to Kochi from Abu Dhabi made an emergency at the Thiruvananthapuram airport due to bad weather. Agitated due to a three-hour long wait, the passengers allegedly tried to force their way into the cockpit. In desperation, the p...
The passengers aboard a Kochi-bound Air India flight have sparked a hijack scare at the Thiruvananthapuram airport. Agitated due to a three-hour long wait, the passengers allegedly tried to force their way into the cockpit. In desperation, the pilot of the Air...
A huge hungama breaks out at the Thiruvananthapuram International Airport, where passengers aboard an Air India flight have caused a hijack scare. The passengers aboard the Kochi-Abu Dhabi flight reportedly got agitated due to a three-hour long wait at the Thi...
Hijack drama being reported at the Thiruvananthapuram International Airport after passengers tried to force their way into the cockpit of an Air India flight. A three-hour delay led to a ruckus aboard the Air India flight. In desperation, the pilot of the Air ...
Turkey has reiterated that it will continue to intercept all flights to and from Syria that cross its airspace, even as the threat of war looms large. Syria has banned Turkish civilian flights from entering its airspace in the latest escalation of tension betw...
Russia maintains that it is not supplying cluster bombs to Syria, which are allegedly being used by the government in its fight against the rebels. Human rights watch earlier claimed that munitions are being dropped on residential areas. This development comes...
Syria has banned Turkish civilian flights from entering its airspace in the latest escalation of tension between the countries. This development comes days after a Damascus-bound Moscow passenger flight was forced to land in Turkey. A squadron of fighter jets ...
Russia has clarified that the Damascus-bound civilian flight from Moscow, which was forced to land in Turkey's capital city of Ankara, was only carrying radio equipment. Russia has rebuffed Turkey's claims that there were weapons on-board the civilian aircraft...
Visakhapatnam airport has truly become an international airport with the launch of flights by Silk Air to Singapore. This is a promising start for the city and would enhance connectivity for north coastal Andhra Pradesh. More flights are expected to be launche...
Political analysts believe that the fallout of the forced landing in Ankara is part of a proxy war being played out against Assad's government in Syria. Facing a war on its borders with Turkey, Syria will now also have to deal with the threat posed by US troop...
Moscow has lashed out at Ankara over allegations that the passenger jet intercepted by Turkey mid-flight carried Russian-made ammunition. Syria and Moscow have clarified that there was no illegal cargo on board. Civilians on board a Syria-bound flight were all...
Passengers on board a Syria-bound flight were allegedly beaten by masked men when the after the plane was forced to land in Turkey. Turkish authorities allegedly went through the cargo of the plane before permitting it to continue on to Syria. This is not the ...
Passengers on board a Syria-bound flight were allegedly beaten by masked men when the plane landed in Turkey. Fourteen fighter jets grounded the Moscow-Damascus plane as it flew over Turkish airspace. Although the flight finally made its way back to Damascus, ...
Following low pressure in the aircraft's wheels, Air India's Delhi-Mumbai flight was grounded at Raja Bhoj Airport in Bhopal. The flight was going to Mumbai via Bhopal and Indore. The decision to ground the flight carrying 98 passengers was taken when low pres...
A California-based firm has successfully launched its first 'returnable' supply flight to the International Space Station. With over a 1.6 billion dollar contract signed, the company also hopes to modify its vessel into a spaceship capable of carrying astronau...
The Indian Air Force may scrap the honorary ranks it hands out to celebrities. Sachin Tendulkar was given the honorary tile of Group Captain. But despite an invitation, he did not attend the official functions of the IAF like the Vayu Sena Diwas, or Monday's 8...
Air India pilots have threatened to go on strike. They have shot off a missive to the DGCA alleging that they are operating flights in violation of safety rules. The pilots have alleged that Air India is forcing them to break the rules and hush up the facts. P...
Sushmita, a wife of a ground staff at KFA, committed suicide. The woman mentioned the reason for the suicide to be, financial crisis because her husband had not been receiving any salary. Due to the recent crisis in Kingfisher, its employees have not received ...
Civil Aviation Minister Ajit Singh has emphasized that the safety of the passengers is the primary concern. The DGCA has now filed a status report on Kingfisher Airlines, demanding that the Airline declare its future strategy. The Civil Aviation Minister Ajit...
The Kingfisher management will not be meeting with the DGCA today. The Kingfisher crisis continues to escalate as talks between the management and striking employees fails yet again. The DGCA has now filed a status report on Kingfisher Airlines, demanding that...
The Kingfisher crisis continues to escalate as talks between the management and striking employees fails yet again. A crucial meeting will now be held between the Kingfisher management and the DGCA. The Directorate General of Civil Aviation has now filed a sta...
The Kingfisher deadlock continues. Around 40-50 KFA ground staff and a few engineers were present at the emergency meeting with Sanjay Agarwal, the Kingfisher CEO. The employees have rejected the compromise formula pitched during the meeting. Civil Aviation Mi...
The Kingfisher Airlines CEO Sanjay Agarwal evades questions on the all-important meet with the KFA employees, which is likely to determine the future of the cash-strapped airline. The KFA crisis compounds as talks between the management and the striking engine...
Civil Aviation Minister Ajit Singh addresses the media on the issue of the Kingfisher crisis, which is gradually spiralling out of control. The KFA crisis compounds as talks between the management and the striking engineers fail for the second day in a row. Th...
The Kingfisher Airlines has cancelled all flights till Thursday. It faces a potentially prolonged shutdown until the cash-strapped carrier clears a salary backlog going back months. On Wednesday, the company CEO, Sanjay Aggarwal met with the engineers. The mee...
The Kingfisher Airlines has cancelled all flights till Thursday. It faces a potentially prolonged shutdown until the cash-strapped carrier clears a salary backlog going back several months. On Wednesday, the company CEO, Sanjay Aggarwal met with the engineers....
Centrestage | After the employee strike Kingfisher Airlines faces another problem. Aviation Minister Ajit Singh says that safety is the number one issue that the strike by Kingfisher engineers has raised and that the airlines must address this situation immedi...
The Civil Aviation Minister Ajit Singh has served a warning to Kingfisher Airlines, saying that the government will not think twice before shutting down the airline if they fail to produce an air worthiness certificate. The Directorate General of Civil Aviatio...
A large number of Kingfisher flights were cancelled as a section of the airline employees, including engineers and pilots, struck work to demand payment of salaries, pending since March. The employees had been promised numerous times that they would receive th...
Tragedy has struck Nepal, where a passenger jet carrying people has crashed killing all on board. The crash occurred on the outskirts of Kathmandu soon after the plane took off. The 'Sita Air' flight, which had 16 passengers and three crew members on board, wa...
Every second counts, and more so when it comes to booking flight tickets. The rapid changes in rates of flight tickets over the week, days, hours and sometimes even minutes, never ceases to surprise air passengers. If a ticket booked week earlier costs Rs 4000...
Kareena Kapoor is on cloud nine. Literally. In Dubai, she and her 'Heroine' director took to the airwaves to promote the film. Dubai citizens were angry at a dialogue in the film of the main lead's Dubai visit. In a bid to assuage the protests against the dial...
The DGCA is filing a preliminary report against Air India pilot Captain Abjesh Prasad for flying without a valid licence eight times. It was earlier reported that he had flouted the rules only twice and AI claimed it was a clerical error. Incidentally, Prasad ...
Air India is left redfaced after it came to light that its pilot Abjesh Prasad had in fact done both the routes -- Mumbai-Jeddah and Jeddah-Mumbai -- with an expired licence. Earlier AI said the DGCA had permitted the pilot to fly without a licence from Jedda...
Air India has passed the blame to DGCA over the AI pilot flying without a licence. AI claims DGCA had granted special permission for the flight to be piloted by Abjesh Prasad whose pilot's licence had expired four days ago instead of waiting for a replacement...
An Air India pilot Abjesh Prasad flew a Jeddah to Calicut bound Boeing 747-400 without a licence. The flight ended in Mumbai. Air India claims the DGCA had given its approval. The pilot has been let off with a warning.
On his return flight from Tehran, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh categorically says he won't resign. The PM also said the BJP was deflecting attention from issues facing the nation. The PM repeated his refrain on Rahul Gandhi saying he sincerely hopes Rahul wou...
Two cases of near-mishap were reported from the runaways at Patna and Mumbai airports. The first involved a bird hit on a Indigo Airlines planes right after take off. The second was at Mumbai airport where an Jet Airways and Air India flights were nearly face ...
A senior Kingfisher pilot, who is also in charge of the company's pilot training program, has been accused of a serious breach of air safety regulations. The arrogant DM of training allegedly threw caution to the wind and flew a woman inside the cockpit of a D...
A few flights of Kingfisher have been cancelled after pilots refused to turn up for work, protesting non-payment of wages. Nearly 25 percent of the Kingfisher employees have refrained from coming to work as they have not been paid their salaries for the last f...
The Air India flyers, who were stranded at the Nawabshah airport in Pakistan, reach New Delhi in a relief flight. According to sources, the pilot made an emergency landing because of a false alarm.