Aviation

New Delhi/Mumbai :  The Air India pilots continued their agitation for the fifth consecutive day Saturday, forcing the management to cancel 14 flights and re-scheduling many others, even as the protesting aviators also approached Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for his intervention. The carrier''s low-cost subsidiary, Air India Express, also cancelled six flights. "Fourteen flights have been cancelled and some may be rescheduled on domestic routes. We are monitoring the situation on an hourly basis and informing the passengers in advance," a senior Air India official told IANS. "We have plans to bring in executive and reserve pilots to operate the flights.…

New Delhi :  Air India Friday began working on a contingency plan to salvage its international operations as the agitation by pilots continued for the fourth day forcing the airline to cancel 12 more flights and reschedule over a dozen. The carrier's low cost subsidiary Air India Express also cancelled five flights in the day during which Civil Aviation Minister Ajit Singh met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and apprised him about the steps being taken to resolve the crisis. "We are working on a plan. This involves operating a bare minimum number of flights on the international sector. This plan may…

umbai :  Holiday plans of thousands of people across the country were ruined as Air India pilots continued their strike for the fourth day, while a section of pilots of the private Kingfisher Airlines (KFA) also went on a strike since midnight, officials said here Friday. While Air India cancelled six flights, including one of the Air India (AI) Express, and rescheduled over a dozen others on its network, there were at least 12 cancellations by KFA mostly on the northern sectors. The flights cancelled by Air India include Seoul-Hongkong-New Delhi, New Delhi-Toronto, Mumbai-Newark, Mumbai-London and AI Express s Mumbai-Mangalore and…

New Delhi :  Amidst crises in Air India and Kingfisher Airlines, the aviation regulator has warned other airlines not to hike fares, a day after the Rajya Sabha was rocked over the issue of rising cost of air travel. "We have advised the airlines not to go ahead with the fare hike. There is no current reason for such a hike as the operating costs have not increased. We are very closely monitoring the situation. No airline will be allowed to take undue advantage of the situation," a senior official with the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) told IANS here.…