| Author - Sky High : The Untold Story of IndiGo | Featured by
@TheEconomist
| Award-winning journalist | Aviation & Defence editor at
@EconomicTimes
(Prime) |
Super happy to share that my book
#SkyHigh
: The Untold Story of
@IndiGo6e
is getting global recognition.
London-based
@TheEconomist
read it & has featured it in its latest edition that hits the stands today with potential US prez
@KamalaHarris
on its cover.
🎉🙂✍️📚🙌🙏
Tempers soaring even mid-air: "I am not your servant"
An
@IndiGo6E
crew and a passenger on an Istanbul flight to Delhi (a route which is being expanded soon with bigger planes in alliance with
@TurkishAirlines
) on 16th December :
Can't believe how people are treating our airline crew. This
@IndiGo6E
crew is nearly broken from being discriminated & taunted. When she is gone for her flight, her mother is even refused groceries in her society. Police is also not helping.
@amitshah
#coronavirus
#india
.
Understand this is Chennai airport today.
The sea seems to have taken it over.
And the most lowly paid staff in an airline typically are out braving it all. 👏👍
#ChennaiRains
All women crew to fly twelve major non-stop
@AirIndiain
flights tomorrow including:
Delhi-San Francisco
Delhi-New York
Delhi-Washington
Delhi- Chicago
Delhi-Sydney
Delhi-Rome
Delhi-London
Delhi-Shanghai
Delhi-Paris
Mumbai-New York
#WomensDay
Air India crew leaving Mumbai to evacuate India citizens from Wuhan, China. What will we do without
@airindiain
's several evacuations over years. Be safe. 👏👏👏.
#coronavirus
Wow look who is talking. Air India was profit making till it was forced with 111 planes it didnt ask for, loaded with debt, then merged leading to internal infighting while pvt airlines soared. 👏👏👏
How much longer will the govt. fund a loss making airline with taxpayers' money knowing its accumulated losses are increasing every year? Does the BJP govt. have a plan for Air India?
Please give Air India cash before anyone else
@nsitharaman
. Hope its not made to grovel. Who will do such national service (except docs and nurses) if not the good crew and staff of AI 🙏.
"Air India to mount Boeing 787 to Rome today to evacuate Indians stranded there." 👏👏.
This joke was only up to SpiceJet. People kept on adding and forwarding it :
IndiGo: No pilots
Jet Airways: No money
SpiceJet: No planes
Air India: No passengers
Air Asia: No management
Vistara: No slots
Airports: No parking
ATC: No time
Pilots: No rest
DGCA: No clue
Air India Express pilot Akhilesh Kumar's body flown into Delhi on
@IndiGo6E
at 2 am. Hear pilot head Ashim Mittra had requested two dozen pilots, ops staff to be present at arrival. Nice gesture to pay last respects from one airline's pilots to the other. Thoughts & prayers 🙏🙏
New :
- Hear Tata Chairman N Chandra has just landed in Delhi.
- To meet PM Modi
@PMOIndia
possibly afternoon.
- All the paperwork -
@AirIndiain
board resigning and new Tata-led board taking over likely post 2 pm today itself.
The unforgettable Maurya Sheraton pasta cooking session of 2007. Almost everyone in the picture is in trouble now including Sunil Bharti Mittal.
@economictimes
pic.
#a
#decade
#in
#business
.
Just in :
- Mumbai airport becomes first to remove boarding pass stamping for all domestic airlines operating out of Terminal 2.
- Domestic passengers can now authenticate their boarding pass by scanning barcode on mobile phones at the e-gates.
#good
#news
What a morbid 2018-19 for aviation (approx numbers):
- IndiGo profit fell 93% to Rs 150 cr from Rs 2200 cr
- SpiceJet became loss making with Rs 300 cr
- Vistara on just a small 20 plane fleet lost Rs 800 cr
- Air India lost a massive Rs 8500 cr
- Jet Airways became history.
This is the flash
@IndiGo6E
pilots saw on their cockpit screens at 36,000 feet when
#Chandrayan3
landed.
As they informed passengers that the eagle has landed a crescendo of claps followed 👏👏👏👍
✈️
And here is the
@AirIndiaX
termination letter sent to crew :
- Quite a sharply worded note shot off late night it seems
- Concerted action / Email access revoked / No benefits to you or family / Self explanatory
✈️
⚡ BREAKING ⚡:
- Sixty-eight years after it was taken away from them, Tatas submit their bid to take back Air India, I hear.
- The next steps of vetting the application start now ✈
Yesterday,
@AirIndia
flight 173 from Delhi to San Francisco was diverted to Magadan, in rural Russia w/ over 220, mostly elderly, passengers.
Sat in plane for 6 hrs & after 18 hrs now, no word from Air India,
@MEAIndia
.
Here is a just taken video from a jittery passenger :
Sydney to New York non-stop in 22 hours?
The
@Airbus
A350-1000 is even planning on having a well-being area inside the plane to keep people happy.
Will people take to such long, captive flights?
✈️
Couldn't believe this pic today -
@jetairways
founder Naresh Goyal leaving jail to meet his wife, who is unwell, for the day.
ps : pic in the right, i had clicked during an interview with him in istanbul, hotel conrad, 2008.
✈️
#sad
#times
Message from an Air India staffer :
"Salary came today.
That’s almost a first in a long long time.
Can’t quite remember when we got paid on the last day of the month."
Had asked for
@IndiGo6E
statement on this forwarded video :
We are aware of the incident that took place on flight 6E 12 from Istanbul to Delhi on December 16, 2022. The issue was related to meals chosen by certain passengers traveling via a codeshare connection.
1/2
And look at this.
@AirIndiain
crew being harassed ar 10 pm last night Lawrence Road, Keshav Puram, Delhi. And they are dying to come back to India if stranded outside the country on special AI, IndiGo etc flights. Cc :
@DelhiPolice
As smoke filled the cabin, "
@FlySpiceJet
crew members told us to "pray to God" & "jump and run" as soon as the emergency doors opened on landing
Airline staff forced us to delete videos and photos of the incident
They snatched my phone when I refused."
Exclusive and Breaking :
- Tatas &
@SingaporeAir
reach an agreement on Air India
- Vistara to merge in
@airindiain
& the resultant entity Air India to have 25.1% stake of Singapore Air
- Merger process kicks off today and to be completed by March 2024
IndiGo is cognizant of the needs of its customers and it is our constant endeavor to provide a courteous and hassle-free experience to our customers. We are looking into the incident and would like to assure that customers' comfort has always been our top priority.
2/2
Delhi-based dietician Khushboo Gupta finds crawling worm in her
@IndiGo6E
sandwich.
"Despite knowing quality of sandwiches was not good, the flight attendant continued to serve sandwiches to others. There were kids, elderly..what if anyone catches infection?"
✈️
Someone shared this shocking
@airindiain
video today
Traced it to its Insta origin to the family who suffered
@delhiairport
Lady had a panic attack & was late by one minute. Gate closed
That staff just sits while she is helpless is just horrendous. Could be anyone of us tom?
Video reminded me of that loyal Hutch pug song, you and I in this beautiful world, just that in here :
An unpaid
@flyspicejet
employee has reached a point that he is taking the airline brand everywhere with a placard saying "SpiceJet spoiled my mental health."
✈️
Big :
- Air India set to order 500 planes from
@Boeing
and
@Airbus
- Including 400 narrow-body jets
- Over 100 wide-body jets - A350s, 787s and 777s
🛩️
"In Gurugram, many delivery persons have endless stories of being harassed by rogue customers who place orders (cash-on-delivery), snatch the food, and then rough them up at remote locations, especially late at night"
Breaking :
- Tatas appoint ex Turkish Airlines chairman Ilker Ayci as CEO & MD of Air India from 1st April
- He said : We will utilize strong heritage of AI to make it one of the best airlines in the world with a uniquely superior flying experience that reflects Indian warmth
@Ram_Guha
One may have political leanings / views but why say celebrating an animal's slaughter. Sad to see a historian tweet such stuff. What will the lesser-read do?
"If you dont open the door I will break the door". Amazing. Such passengers should be put on no fly list by
@DGCAIndia
immediately.
@airindiain
Delhi-Mumbai flight on Boeing 747 returned to bay day before after a snag. Captain wont fly an unsafe plane, passengers must understand!
Just happened :
- Akasa Air's
@Boeing
737-MAX, VT-YAF operating flight QP-1333 from Ahmedabad to Delhi hit by a bird
- Happened during climb
- Radome found damaged.
@AkasaAir
plane declared AOG at
@DelhiAirport
.
🛩️
Air India plane got stuck around
@delhiairport
- Gurgaon area last night.
@AirIndiain
says the plane was sold to someone & transported last night.
Hope the
@airindiain
privatisation announcement will not get stuck and be out this coming week. ✈
Video via
@deepakseditor
Massive rush for
@qatarairways
hiring in Mumbai,
@Hilton
.
People have come from all over but are being sent back without any interviews.
Shared by one of the disappointed candidate :
🛩️
- Aviation ministry asks
@airindiain
to cut pilot salaries by 60%.
- Pilots say they want to give back all the appreciation letters given during
#coronavirus
flights back to
@HardeepSPuri
.
Big breaking :
- Air India to go for major expansion from winters - launch Mumbai - San Francisco nonstop
- Leasing 25 planes- 21
@Airbus
A320neos, 4 A321neos, 5
@Boeing
777-200LRs
- 777s to join from Dec 2022 to March 2023. Also beef up New York, Bengaluru - San Francisco
Just in :
-
@IndiGo6E
set to enter long-haul international market, orders 30 widebody
@Airbus
A350-900 planes
- To enter service in 2027
- Also takes options for buying another 70 A350s
✈️
Eagle has landed.
First glimpse of Air India's very first and brand new
@airbus
A350 in all new colors at
@DelhiAirport
.
VT-JRA or first in the aviation pioneer JRD Tata series
✈️
Just heard on CNBC..fine print says if you are an Indian passport holder and live in Dubai and dont pay any taxes there you may be liable to pay tax in India.
#budget2020
BREAKING :
- After 68 years of being taken away, Tatas win Air India, per
@business
- Announcement soon (shraadh, so after 6th Oct?)
- SpiceJet's Ajay Singh being the losing bidder.
Mrs. Indira Gandhi's dignified and bold speech (can't be part of power groupings, she tells
@ronaldreagan
at the
@whitehouse
south lawns in 1982) versus Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger's filthy comments.
@nixonfoundation
.