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Air India Express on Wednesday cancelled more than 80 flights after nearly 100 cabin crew members reported sick, protesting human resource practices of the airline. CEO Aloke Singh said in a message to employees that he is open to discussion with the cabin crew and that the airline will curtail flights for the next few days to mitigate the disruption. The airline operates around 360 flights per day. The civil aviation ministry sought a report from the airline, while Delhi's regional labour commissioner Ashok Perumalla pushed the company to settle the issues raised by the protesting staff.

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NEW DELHI : Air India Express will reduce its flight network by 20% over the next few days to stabilize operations after a section of cabin crew went on mass sick leave, causing significant disruptions. The mass leave is believed to be a result of grievances related to the ongoing merger with AIX Connect, formerly AirAsia India. “If there are concerns that need to be addressed, the company leadership is available for any discussions.

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Democratic Progressive Azad Party chief and former Union Minister during the UPA govt, Ghulam Nabi Azad today heavily criticised Air India for flight cancellations and went on to say that it should be shut as its 'basic culture is bad". Azad said this after his Delhi-Srinagar Air India Express flight got cancelled. «I was supposed to leave in the morning. But I am now leaving on an IndiGo flight after sitting here for 3-4 hours...If the flights were cancelled, they should have informed us in the morning itself. Why did they fool everyone?...Air India should be shut...Air India's basic culture is bad, nothing will become of it,» Azad was quoted as saying by ANI.

Air India Express cancelled the its international and domestic flights after its senior crew member went on mass “sick leave", alleging “mismanagement" at the airline. “A section of our cabin crew has reported sick at the last minute, starting last night, resulting in flight delays and cancellations," Air India Express said in a statement.

NEW DELHI : The government is considering a proposal to scrap the import duty on business jets as the tax introduced a decade-and-half ago has approached the end of its intended tenure. A tax of 2.5% is levied on private and business airplanes that are imported for so-called non-scheduled aircraft operations, while there’s no such tax on commercial jets.

InterGlobe Aviation Ltd. traded 1.07 per cent up at Rs 3990.65 at 11:11AM (IST) on Wednesday, even as BSE benchmark Sensex dropped 276.28 points to 73235.57. The stock had settled at Rs 3948.35 in the previous session. The stock quoted a 52-week high price of Rs 4188.15 and 52-week low of Rs 2158.85, respectively. As per BSE data, total traded volume on the counter till 11:11AM (IST) stood at 4152 shares with a turnover of Rs 1.65 crore.

The Federal Aviation Administration has opened an investigation into Boeing after the beleaguered company reported that workers at a South Carolina plant falsified inspection records on certain 787 planes

Congress contesting 328 Lok Sabha seats, fewest ever. Details here In the second phase, the final turnout was 66.71%--a drop of about 3 percentage points from 2019.

Lok Sabha Election 2024 Voting Live Updates Maharashtra marked the lowest voter turnout at 55.21 per cent. Notably, the same 93 seats had polled 67.33% in 2019 Lok Sabha elections.

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InterGlobe Aviation Ltd. traded 1.32 per cent down in Tuesday's trade at 11:57AM (IST). Around 12,950 shares changed hands on the counter. The scrip opened at Rs 4002.4 and touched an intraday high and low of Rs 4040.85 and Rs 3930.0, respectively, in the session so far. Shares of the company of InterGlobe Aviation Ltd. quoted a 52-week high of Rs 4188.15 and a 52-week low of Rs 2158.85.

polling started for 93 Lok Sabha seats across 12 states and union territories in the third phase of the general election on Tuesday at 7:00 am. The states and union territories where the elections are being held in this phase are Assam (4), Bihar (5), Chhattisgarh (7), Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu (2), Goa (2), Gujarat (25), Karnataka (14), Maharashtra (11), Madhya Pradesh (8), Uttar Pradesh (10) and West Bengal (4). The BJP has bagged the Surat seat unopposed. In this phase, more than 1300 candidates, including around 120 women, are in the fray.

INDIA alliance as they have realised the glitz and glamour of the BJP is a facade, AICC general secretary Priyanka Gandhi said on Saturday. Speaking in a rally in Davangere in Karnataka a day before campaigning ends in the state, the leader hit out at the Narendra Modi-led government, saying it was busy in corruption by making schemes. “He [Prime Minister Narendra Modi] talks very well about sabka saath, sabka vikas (everyone’s support, everyone’s progress), but does nothing for the poor. Meanwhile, the people of the country are suffering from unemployment, inflation and economic crisis,” she said. Accusing the PM of crony capitalism, she said he spoke of welfare but was never seen with the poor in villages. “All his rallies are with his rich businessmen friends. No wonder our country’s railways, aviation, ports and shipping are now in the hands of one man,” she added.

Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall on a historic flight at Edwards Air Force Base in California on Friday, news agency AP reported. The move can be considered one of the biggest advances in military aviation since the introduction of stealth in the early 1990s. The report said the AI-controlled F-16, called Vista, flew the USAF Secretary in lightning-fast manoeuvres at more than 550 miles an hour that put pressure on his body at five times the force of gravity.

Invictus Games, which was initially set up by Prince Harry in 2014, claiming the event has “lost its original meaning", several reports suggested. The games were supposed to a route help support wounded, injured and sick service personnel and veterans.

InterGlobe Aviation Ltd. traded 1.96 per cent down at Rs 4029.05 on Friday at around 12:17PM (IST), while the benchmark BSE Sensex declined 637.84 points to 73973.27. As many as 23,417 shares changed hands on the counter with a total value of Rs 9.6 crore.

Boeing aircraft has died.Joshua Dean, 45, was a former quality auditor for Boeing supplier Spirit AeroSystems in Wichita, Kan. He worked on the Boeing 737 Max program and filed a formal whistleblower complaint to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) in 2023 over improper manufacturing practices he witnessed.

A bipartisan group of senators wants restrictions on the use of facial recognition technology by the Transportation Security Administration

Nyrika Holkar has the additional task of leading a refrigerator-to-aerospace behemoth from the front. Holkar, executive director and future managing director candidate at Godrej & Boyce (G&B), fronted the succession settlement with her legal team along with Pirojsha Godrej from the Adi Godrej side of the family. Nyrika is understood to have been quietly working on the plan for the last five years, officials close to the matter said.