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Category Archives: Air India

Air IndiaLaw In Travel

Moron Who Urinated On Air India Passenger Is Arrested After Fleeing Police, Fired By Wells Fargo

Matthew Klint Posted onJanuary 9, 2023January 9, 2023 15 Comments
Air India Arrested urinated

The man who allegedly became so inebriated that he urinated on a female passenger in business class on an Air India flight from New York to New Delhi has been fired from his job by Wells Fargo and arrested...

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Air India

Drunk Seatmate Urinates On Woman, Flight Attendants Do Nothing

Matthew Klint Posted onJanuary 5, 2023January 4, 2023 10 Comments

A golden shower is never my thing, but certainly not on a longhaul flight to New York courtesy of an inebriated seatmate. One poor woman seated in business class was the recipient of one after a drunk man allegedly...

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Air India

Air India Seeks A Younger Look For Its Cabin Crews

Matthew Klint Posted onNovember 25, 2022November 25, 2022 11 Comments
Air India Gray Hair

Privatized Air India has updated its grooming and appearance standards and now more closely regulates balding and bans gray hair amongst cabin crew members. Are such policies reasonable? Air India Bans Gray Hair, Restricts Blading For Cabin Crew One...

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Air IndiaLounge Reviews

Review: Air India Maharaja Lounge New York (JFK)

Matthew Klint Posted onSeptember 3, 2021September 3, 2021 8 Comments
Air India Lounge JFK Review

The Air India Maharaja Lounge at New York JFK is probably not worth your time, but if you have a morning Star Alliance flight from T4, it still beats the gate area. Air India Maharaja Lounge New York JFK...

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Air IndiaLaw In Travel

Court Rules Air India Must Reinstate 41 Pilots Who Resigned Then Changed Their Mind…After Pandemic Hit

Matthew Klint Posted onJune 2, 2021June 2, 2021 3 Comments
Air India Reinstate Pilots

The High Court of Delhi has held that Air India must reinstate 41 pilots who resigned in 2019 then attempted to rescind their resignations in 2020 after the pandemic struck the world. Court Rules Air India Must Reinstate Pilots...

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Air IndiaLaw In Travel

Air India Bans Employees From Posting Criticism On Social Media

Matthew Klint Posted onMarch 19, 2021March 19, 2021 5 Comments
Air India Social Media Ban

Unions representing Air India employees have promised to lodge a challenge to Air India’s social media policy, which prohibits all employees–even retired ones–from posting any critical information or opinion on social media that may reflect poorly against Air India....

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Air IndiaLufthansa

Why Lufthansa Is Boycotting India

Matthew Klint Posted onOctober 3, 2020October 3, 2020 28 Comments
Lufthansa Boycotts India

Lufthansa has scrapped all flights to India in an escalating feud over access to world’s second most populous nation. India declares that Germany is not being fair in terms of entry restrictions for its own citizens. Lufthansa claims it...

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Air India

Air India Promises “No Layoffs”…But Up To Five Years Of Unpaid Leave

Matthew Klint Posted onJuly 24, 2020 2 Comments
Air India Layoffs

While airlines around the world are threatening or implementing layoffs due to unprecedented drops in demand, Air India is promising no jobs will be lost. Ah, the joys of being a state-owned, state-backed airline. But the practical effects of...

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Air India

U.S. Targets Bogus “Repatriation” Flights On Air India

Matthew Klint Posted onJune 25, 2020June 25, 2020 41 Comments
Air India Repatriation Flights

As tensions rise in China and India over a disputed border, the U.S. is taking an even-handed approach: threatening to ban both of them from flying to the USA unless U.S. carriers are given more access to their nations....

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Air IndiaNews

Scary: Passengers Revolt On Delayed Air India Flight

Matthew Klint Posted onJanuary 6, 2020January 5, 2020 13 Comments

A delay on top of a delay prompted mutiny on an Air India flight from New Delhi to Mumbai. Video evidence captures a scary scene onboard in which passengers attempt to enter the flight deck and later physically assault...

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Air IndiaNews

Air India To Indian Government: No More Tickets On Credit

Matthew Klint Posted onDecember 26, 2019December 26, 2019 10 Comments
Air India Government Credit

Chasing past due invoices, Air India has informed government agencies that it is unwillingly to extend further credit until balances are zeroed. Tickets will no longer be issued on credit to those agencies who owe Rs 10 lakh (about...

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Air India

Air India Faces Harsh Fine For Serving Meat To Vegetarians

Matthew Klint Posted onSeptember 25, 2019September 25, 2019 49 Comments
Air India Finee

Air India was hit with a hefty government fine after it served a dish containing meat to unsuspecting vegetarians. Chandra Mohan Pathak and his wife were flying from Chicago to New Delhi on India in late 2016. They had...

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Air IndiaNews

Air India’s New “Diet” Crew Meals: Fat Shaming Or Cost Cutting?

Matthew Klint Posted onSeptember 16, 2019September 15, 2019 9 Comments
Air India Diet Meals

Air India is introducing new low-fat “diet” meals for crews. Is this another not-so-subtle attempt at fat-shaming or just another cost cutting cutting move for a cash-starved airline? Effective immediately, Air India cabin crews (flight attendants and pilots) will...

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Air India

Air India Bans Holy Water From Flights, Sparking Outrage

Matthew Klint Posted onJuly 9, 2019July 10, 2019 7 Comments
Air India Zamzam Ban

UPDATE: Air India has backtracked. See statement below. With reference to instructions regarding non carriage of Zamzam cans, on AI966 and AI964, we wish to clarify that passengers are allowed to carry Zamzam cans within their permissible baggage allowance....

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Air India Pilot Suspended For Shoplifting From Sydney Duty Free

Matthew Klint Posted onJune 24, 2019June 24, 2019 3 Comments
El Al Air India Spat

There are these thing in airports. They are called security cameras. You’ll notice them especially present in duty free shops. But apparently one Air India captain thought he could outsmart them. Rohit Bhasin is not only a senior captain...

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Air IndiaEL ALNews

Is EL AL Spreading Rumors Of Air India’s Collapse?

Matthew Klint Posted onMay 15, 2019May 15, 2019 11 Comments
El Al Air India Spat

Air India has a message it wants to make loud and clear: we are not on the verge of collapse. But if you’ve been reading newspapers lately in Israel, you may have been told otherwise. In an interesting story...

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Air IndiaAward TravelUnited Airlines

FYI: Air India Award Space Currently Not Bookable With United Miles

Matthew Klint Posted onMarch 25, 2019March 25, 2019 8 Comments
United Airlines Air India Award Space

If you’re trying to book an Air India flight using your United miles, you cannot…at least for the time being. United Airlines has had some issues with its Star Alliance partner award inventory lately. For several weeks, bookings with...

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Air India

Gross: Passenger Finds HUGE Cockroach In Meal

Matthew Klint Posted onFebruary 9, 2019February 9, 2019 9 Comments
Air Inida Cockroach Meal

Honestly, I have a much greater fear of biting into a cockroach on a plane than my plane ever crashing. One airline passenger encountered a massive cockroach in his lunch…and flight attendants just ignored him when he complained. With...

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Air India

India’s Grand Plan To Save Air India

Matthew Klint Posted onDecember 22, 2018December 23, 2018 4 Comments
Air India 2018 Bailout

If you can’t sell it, you might as well pour $330 million more tax dollars into it, right? That’s the new plan for Air India. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has asked Parliament for 23 billion rupees ($330 million USD)...

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Air India

Air India Seeks New Government Bailout To Pay Bills

Matthew Klint Posted onAugust 1, 2018August 1, 2018 4 Comments
Air India Bailout

Beleaguered Air India is seeking another $309MN from the Indian government to pay off vendors, further scaring away potential investors. The Indian government, which currently owns a 76% stake in Air India, has been actively courting investors to buy...

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