Seeking to reduce cost amid cash crunch and mounting losses, government-run Air India has asked its qualified cabin crew from other bases to relocate either permanently or temporarily to New Delhi if they want to fly wide-body planes.

Air India has its bases across Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Kolkata, and Hyderabad, among other cities.

National passenger carrier Air India will deploy its Boeing 747 “Jumbo” aircraft to meet the rising passenger traffic from October 16 to 21.

According to Air India, it will operate the 747 aircraft on Delhi-Kolkata-Delhi and Delhi-Mumbai-Delhi routes.

'Are you sure you want me to book you on a return ticket on Air India?’ Anurag, my ever-so-helpful and slightly-alarmed travel agent asked. I said yes. ‘It’s not all as bad as you make it out to be.’ I’d been on Air India flights before, that too economy, how bad could business class be? It is our national carrier, they fly 777s and 787s - business class promises fully flat seats where you could expect to be relatively comfortable and even get in a night’s sleep.

Even after multiple system failure, adverse weather conditions and lack of fuel while struggling to land at the John F Kennedy Airport in New York, an Air India pilot succeeded in saving the lives of 370 passengers on-board. It was September 11, when Air India’s AI-101 was flying from New Delhi to New York.

In a bid to entice customers this lean season, state-run carrier Air India has come out with a latest offer under which customers can grab a 15% discount on international flight tickets. According to Air India’s website, customers can get a 15% discount on flights to to Bangkok, Hong Kong and Singapore. Under the promotional sale, the travel period should be before October 27, 2018.

Mumbai: National carrier Air India is under utilising its flagship Boeing Dreamliner fleet due to flight crew shortage as well as technical issues with only 21 planes being deployed for operations every day, an airline source said.

Air India has 27 Boeing 787-800 (Dreamliner) aircraft in its fleet at present.

Mumbai: Air India Ltd expects to sell its former head office in Mumbai for an estimated 2,000 crore by the end of March to state-run Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust (JNPT), said a senior airline official. Both JNPT and Air India are carrying out their individual valuations of the iconic Air India building at Mumbai’s Nariman Point, the Air India official, who declined to be named, told Mint. “The proceeds from the sale of the building will be used to pay off a part of the airline’s debt,” said the official.

Mumbai: Air India will soon be managed by a board, if a turnaround plan being charted out by the government that involves financial and organization reform is approved, a senior Air India official aware of the development said on condition of anonymity.

“The plan is to make Air India stand on its own feet so that it can be sold in future,” said the official cited above.

In a breather to Indian aviation industry, which is reeling under rising fuel prices, low fares and high taxes, the government is working on a relief package for the airlines to help them cut costs and cope with depreciating rupee. While speaking on the sidelines of the International Aviation Summit organised by the International Air Transport Association,

With cash crunch likely to continue in Air India (AI) due to rising fuel costs, the Centre may infuse additional Rs 2,200 crore in the debt-ridden national carrier later in the current financial year to meet an estimated shortfall in working capital requirement to service loans and pay salary in time.

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