3 min readAug 13, 2026 10:05 PM IST Outgoing Air India CEO Campbell Wilson on Thursday urged employees to work towards building a culture of trust and transparency, and do the right thing even “when no one is watching”, according to sources in the know. Wilson is also learnt to have encouraged Air India employees…
2 min readUpdated: Aug 13, 2026 04:15 PM IST Air India said Thursday that all group pilots, including those from Air India Express, will undergo a mandatory drug test starting today, i.e., August 13. An e-mail sent this morning – which was seen by The Indian Express – said the tests will screen for ‘any…
The confirmatory drug test of the Air India pilot-in-command of a Phuket-Delhi flight that fell 300 feet, leaving 24 people injured, has come in as positive for marijuana, according to sources. The Ministry of Civil Aviation (MoCA) had said on Sunday that the preliminary drug screening gave a “non-negative” result. The samples were sent for…
5 min readAug 10, 2026 04:23 PM IST There is no government policy that restricts that airport operators from holding substantial equity in airlines or operating them, but there are some restrictions in specific agreements pertaining to some airports operated by private sector airport operators under the public-private partnership (PPP) model, the government informed the…
4 min readNew DelhiUpdated: Aug 4, 2026 08:05 PM IST The operating environment for the aviation sector has become dynamic and is currently replete with challenges, but it won’t alter the long-term direction that India’s largest airline IndiGo has decided to take, the carrier’s new Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Willie Walsh said in an address…
One of the black boxes of the Air India Boeing 787-8 aircraft has been recovered from the crash site in Ahmedabad by the on-site team of the Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB), which is leading the investigation into the worst aviation disaster involving an Indian airline in decades. The flight data recorder (FDR), one of…
4 min readNew DelhiUpdated: Jun 14, 2025 10:45 AM IST Air India will be fully transparent in the investigation into the crash of its Boeing 787-8 aircraft and will support the probe process as long it lasts, the Tata group airline’s chief executive officer Campbell Wilson said Friday. In a recorded statement from Ahmedabad, the…
Viswashkumar Ramesh, the sole survivor of Thursday’s Air India flight 171 crash that killed 241 people, defied all odds to make it out alive. Remarkably, he escaped from the front of the aircraft — an area typically considered less safe than the rear in the event of a crash. Viswash, who is currently recovering from…
4 min readNew DelhiUpdated: Jun 15, 2025 08:41 AM IST India was rated well above the global average in terms of its operations and airworthiness by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) when the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) was last audited in November 2022, with the overall Effective Implementation score being raised to…
3 min readMumbaiUpdated: Jun 14, 2025 08:03 PM IST Air India crash compensation update: While the death toll in the Air India Dreamliner crash in Ahmedabad touched 249 as of Saturday, people who died on the ground will also get the compensation announced by the Tata group. According to the Tata group, people who died…
