NEW DELHI: Vistara has issued five “essential steps” that passengers who booked its flights for travel on and after Nov 12, 2024, when the airline merges into Air India. Such passengers will need to verify their booking details and get changed tickets while retaining their original Vistara booking. Since AI old fleet is still a…
Trouble for Air India Ltd. is mounting with aircraft technicians planning a strike later this month after its pilots voiced concerns last week about being overworked and underpaid.Technicians at AI Engineering Services Ltd. — a state-run maintenance, repair and overhaul firm and an erstwhile Air India unit — will strike on April 23 due to…
Airfares surge! Travellers preparing to take domestic flights this summer will need to budget more as airfares have spiked by 20-25 per cent due to Vistara flight cancellations and high air travel demand. Industry experts have noted that the airline sector is facing challenges in meeting the surge in demand, leading to the use of…
NEW DELHI: Over 98% of Vistara‘s 1,000-odd pilots have signed a new pay agreement, CEO Vinod Kannan said Saturday even as discontent simmered over reduced remuneration and disruptions plagued the Tatas-owned airline ahead of its merger with Air India (AI) by the year-end.“We are aware that some pilots have some concerns and queries regarding the…
Mr Kannan said more pilots are being hired. New Delhi: Crisis-hit Vistara has said it hopes to stabilise its operations by this weekend, insisting that 98% of its pilots have signed the new contracts with the revised salary structure which had led to several of them calling in sick and causing flight cancellations. The airline’s…
MUMBAI: The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has asked Vistara to follow the relevant regulations pertaining to facilities and compensation it should pay passengers hit by flight cancellations, delays and denied boarding. However, passengers whose flights have been cancelled or delayed have learnt that these norms do not address some of their core concerns….
Vistara flight cancellation crisis: Amid ongoing protests by Vistara pilots over pay revision, sources revealed that at least 15 senior first officers recently resigned from the airline. Vistara operates around 300 flights daily and has a fleet of 70 aircraft including A320-family planes and Boeing 787s.In recent weeks, the Tata Group-owned airline has faced discontent…
PUNE: Encouraged by strong demand on the route and anticipated uptick in the upcoming summer season, Vistara on Wednesday announced that it will be deploying its Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner aircraft on the Delhi – Bali route, effective March 31. The airline had launched daily, non-stop flights on this route in December 2023, operated thus far…
Stiff competition for IndiGo: InterGlobe Aviation, the owner of IndiGo, is expected to face challenges in gaining market share in the near future due to intense competition. The airline gained a significant share after Go First’s bankruptcy in May last year. From April to September 2023, IndiGo‘s market share rose to 63.4% from 57.5%. However,…
NEW DELHI: Domestic air passenger traffic rose 9 per cent to more than 1.27 crore in November, according to official data released on Friday. Last month also saw daily air traffic touching new highs multiple times. IndiGo remained the country’s largest domestic carrier but its market share declined to 61.8 per cent in November from…
