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Air India wants you to pay money to select your seats, but the process is thoroughly clumsy and broken. We advise you against using the paid preferred seating options, and here is why you should consider our advise.
Air India’s 787 aircraft recently got caught in 15 minutes of bad turbulence, which caused quite a mishap on board, including some aircraft panels coming off.
Etihad buys Air India. Is that a headline you ever imagined? That is not true yet but apparently, Etihad wants to buy 76% of Air India, so they are in the market for a bid! Who would have guessed they still ain’t over their M&A strategy.
Air India privatisation may take a hit with the first big bidder in IndiGo bowing out of the race as quickly as they got in the race. Laser sharp focus on their goals makes IndiGo what it is, and I appreciate the fact that they did not want to take this elephant on and lose sight of the ball!
Air India IFE plans going forward will include iPads for passengers, who will be able to use them onboard the flight. The airline just released a bid document asking to have these onboard. So let’s find out what their new IFE plans are.
Bad News Alert! Air India Seat Selection charges are going live this weekend. This means you could be looking at paying anywhere from INR 150 to INR 500 or more to get a window or aisle seat on an Air India flight going forward! Not an April Fool Prank!
A new Air India Sydney flight is taking shape, adding the weekly number of flights to Sydney to five starting this week onwards. This new flight will be operated on Air India’s Boeing 787 aircraft, which is a good plane to fly in for this 12-hour trip either direction!
Air India’s much talked about flight between Delhi and Tel Aviv will take off on its first flight tomorrow, and make history with being the first operation in a very long time to have access to the Saudi Arabian airspace, making the flight between India and Israel shorter than the most circuitous route.
A few hours ago, our national carrier faced a cybersecurity issue. With Air India Twitter Hacked, the Turkish hackers seemed to imply that all the flights of the airline were cancelled. Fortunately, things are under control and the airline now has their handle back.
Air India may be finally getting the right of way to get to Israel. It seems Saudi Arabia has given them the rights to overfly their airspace to be able to get a more direct route to Tel Aviv.
Air India is making major investments in adding more flights from San Francisco, adding three more flights between Delhi and San Francisco in March 2018.
