Air India has made it mandatory for its pilots and cabin crew members to check and confirm that their pre-flight COVID-19 test results are negative before they operate an aircraft, according to an official communication issued hours after the Delhi-Moscow flight incident involving a pilot on Saturday.
An Air India flight from Delhi to Moscow was asked to return midway on Saturday after its ground team realised that one of the pilots onboard the plane tested positive for coronavirus, officials in the airline and aviation regulator DGCA told PTI.
Air India flight (AI-1945) from Delhi to Moscow on Saturday returned midway to Delhi after the ground team realised that the pilot is COVID-19 positive. The flight was part of Aviation Ministry's 'Vande Bharat Mission' that are being run to bring back stranded Indians abroad amid COVID-19 outbreak.
A joint forum of Air India employees and staff unions has sought a Rs 50,000 crore financial succour from the government for the national carrier, stating that the airline is a necessity for the country.
All scheduled commercial passenger flights have been suspended since March 25 when the government imposed a nationwide lockdown to curb the coronavirus pandemic. The flights resumed on Monday.
Air India shall be allowed to operate non-scheduled foreign flights with middle seats booking for next 10 days, Supreme Court has ordered after hearing an urgent plea filed by Centre and Air India against Bombay High Court order to keep middle seats vacant in international flights.
Air India pilot unions IPG and ICPA on Saturday threatened they might not be able to extend support to the airline's "normal operations" and in the matter of flight duty and time limitations (FDTL), alleging that financial and other issues of employees remain unresolved.
It is very important to resume flight operations because we have to actually learn to live with corona, says Videh Jaipuriar, CEO, Delhi International Airport Limited
Air India has started taking bookings for domestic flights starting Monday, May 25. Union Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri on Thursday announced that the air fares for flights will have a capped upper and lower limit in price.
Air India Express IX 890 arrived from Bahrain to Hyderabad's Rajiv Gandhi International Airport.
Air India on Sunday issued clarification regarding news on the resumption of domestic flights by Air India. It said, "Air India flight bookings are currently closed & will resume after receipt of directions from Government of India".
An Air India Express special flight landed at Cochin International Airport in Kerala's Kochi.
Air India on Thursday said that reservation of international flights from India to select destinations in United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Frankfurt, Paris and Singapore will begin from 5 pm on Thursday.
Air India is all set to fly stranded Indians from one city to another. As per a report published by Times of India, Air India will operate special domestic flights between May 19 and June 2 to help people stranded in various cities get home.
An Air India Express flight brought back 183 passengers stranded in Muscat, said an airline official. According to the official, flight IX 350 flew in and touched down at the Anna International Airport here on the Tuesday late night.
An Air India flight with 331 passengers from Britain landed at the Rajiv Gandhi International Airport here early Tuesday. It later took off with another 87 passengers for Delhi, from where they will be airlifted to the US.
Air India office in Delhi has been closed for two days after peon tests positive for coronavirus
All 5 Air India pilots who had tested positive for COVID-19 earlier, have now been found negative in the retest on Monday.
Indian passengers arrived at Newark Liberty International Airport to board the Air India flight to Mumbai. The flight will later fly to Ahmedabad.
Nearly 572 Indians who were stranded abroad due to the coronavirus-enforced lockdown landed at the Mumbai international airport early Sundaymorning, a Maharashtra government official said.
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