Duringmy Four Seasons Yacht via Turkmenistan and Saudi Arabia adventure, I had a very long layover at Delhi Airport (DEL), prior to my Air India 777 first class flight. This allowed me to check out several lounges.
Incheon International Airport Corporation (IIAC) is working with Star Alliance, the world’s largest airline alliance, and signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on Sept. 8, 2026. This MoU aims to set up a Star Alliance lounge within Terminal 1 of Incheon International Airport. Currently, Air India operates two non-stop flights weekly to Incheon from Delhi […]
Travel Radar•Nibras Malik5h ago
Reuters is reporting that Singapore Airlines will seek greater financial control over Air India, in exchange for continuing its investment in the airline. Singapore Airlines currently has held a 25.1% stake in Air India since November 2024. The Indian domestic carrier has posted persistent losses in recent years and recently requested $1.5 billion in fresh […]
Travel Radar•Billy Stack9h ago
Carrier may demand stronger governance rights before providing fresh capital to an airline that lost US$2.33 billion in its latest fiscal year
Air Data News•Ricardo Meier9 Sept
Air India Express rolls out new uniforms: Air India Express has rolled out new uniforms for its cabin crew and frontline staff across its network, introducing a fresh new look […]
New CEO Tewolde Gebremariam is taking over a very different Air India from the one Campbell Wilson inherited in 2022. The airline has more aircraft, more resources and bigger ambitions, not to forget, much higher expectations.
Skift Airlines•Peden Doma Bhutia7 SeptAviation News – India’s Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau has revealed that an Air India Airbus A320neo suffered a simultaneous loss of pressure across all three...
India’s Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) has found that an Air India Airbus A320neo lost pressure in all…
AeroTime•Clement Charpentreau4 Sept
Air India's owners haven't run out of money. They've run out of patience. The $1.1 billion lifeline shows they are still willing to back the airline, but now they want results.
Skift Airlines•Peden Doma Bhutia4 SeptAir India Limited (hereinafter, “Air India”), India’s leading global airline, SkyDrive Inc. (hereinafter, “SkyDrive”), a company engaged in the development, manufacture, and sales of eVTOL aircraft, and Suzuki Motor Corporation (hereinafter, “Suzuki”) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to conduct a joint feasibility study on the use of eVTOL aircraft for medical air logistics
Singapore Airlines is backed by Temasek Holdings, the Singapore sovereign investment fund that is the airline’s majority shareholder. Temasek is
Air Insight•Ernest Arvai3 Sept
Air India has launched ‘Easy Connect’ services from Ahmedabad, marking a significant milestone in the Government of India’s transformative hub-and-spoke initiative. Ahmedabad joins Amritsar and Varanasi in the growing Easy...
While the carrier says they'll be nonstop, will they? Find out more here!
Air India’s Delhi-Toronto nonstop Boeing 787-9 service can still stop in Vienna. Here’s how aircraft certification and fleet availability explain why.
VT-AWD, Air India’s fourth linefit 787-9 Dreamliner landed in India earlier this week. This is the fourth linefit aircraft for the airline, joining the six former Vistara 787-9s and 26 787-8 Dreamliners of Air India. The legacy Dreamliners are undergoing refurbishments and refits along with heavy maintenance checks wherever due. Air India plans to complete […]
NetworkThoughts•Network Thoughts1 Sept
Air India and Drukair, Royal Bhutan Airlines have announced a new interline partnership to improve network connectivity between India and Bhutan. The partnership enables passengers to benefit from a single-ticket […]
After a week away, there’s much to discuss on this week’s episode of AvTalk. We start in Munich, where the Runway 26L took a great deal of abuse. We discuss the Vietnam Airlines 787 runway overrun and tail strike , followed two days later by a Lufthansa A380 touching down before the threshold on the same runway. We also examine what happened aboard Air India A320neo VT-EXO, which briefly lost pressure across all three hydraulic systems, causing an upset that injured nearly two dozen people. Plus, American puts two aircraft with the same call sign on the same frequency—again—and investigators say an unqualified passenger may have been flying a Phenom 100 that overran a wet runway. Elsewhere, a ramp worker is killed during the pushback of a French bee A350 in Montreal, a Frankfurt Airport employee dies from a rare case of malaria, and a Qantas A380 flies to Dallas and back with a maintenance light left inside its wing. We also discuss rising runway incursions in Australia, the return of the Delta–Aeromexico joint venture, Eurowings’ new Premium BIZ seats, the FAA’s war on plastic cups, United’s orphaned 737 MAX 10 seats, and American’s plan to bring seatback screens back—eventually. Please check back soon for a transcript of this week’s episode.
Flightradar24 Blog•Flightradar2428 Aug
24 people were left injured after an Air India Airbus A320neo flight from Phuket to Delhi lost key flight controls. The service, flight AI2379 on August 4th 2026, has prompted the planemaker to request checks on the airplane's hydraulics, sensors, and wiring. According to Reuters, Airbus' initial analysis suggests the plane lost all three hydraulic systems, causing it to drop 300 feet in a matter of seconds.
Air India is swapping the Airbus A321LR for the legacy Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner on its Delhi-Manila route, a change that trades away the Premium Economy cabin the route has had since launch in exchange for a meaningfully larger aircraft. The A321LR flies in a 188-seat, three-class configuration: 12 Business, 24 Premium Economy and 152 Economy. […]
NetworkThoughts•Network Thoughts25 Aug
Air India announced the successful implementation of the government of India’s new cargo transshipment policy through an ongoing Proof of Concept (PoC) on the Chennai-Delhi-Frankfurt air cargo corridor, launched on […]
For the next flight of my Four Seasons Yacht via Turkmenistan and Saudi Arabia adventure, I flew Air India’s Boeing 777-300ER first class on the 9hr25min flight from Delhi (DEL) to Frankfurt (FRA).
One Mile at a Time•Ben Schlappig23 Aug