Government owned Air India is ready to take delivery of yet another Boeing 787 Dreamliner.
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In 1978, an Air India jumbo jet exploded in mid-air near Bombay, killing 213.
Also, it has delivered 25 of the 68 planes previously ordered by state-run Air India, he added.
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Lenders have also reportedly been allowed to avoid booking losses on loans to Air India, a state-owned zombie.
Tata starting the country's first commercial airline, which is now state-run Air India.
Government run Air India actually saw an increase in July to 18.2 percent from around 16 percent, according to authorities.
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Tata--the former Tata Group chairman who founded India's now-state-run carrier Air India--is considered the father of civil aviation in India.
The group later bid for Air India, again with Singapore Airlines, when the government proposed to sell it in 2001.
United Continental, Qatar Airways, Air India, Latam Airlines, Lot Polish Airlines, and Ethiopian Airlines have all halted their Dreamliner operations.
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Air India's move is unusual as U.S. regulators extended its ban to test and delivery flights, as well as commercial operations.
Another resident, Shashikant Salunke, who works for Air India, worries that by surrendering his proof of residence, he'll be left in limbo.
"Minimizing airport charges will certainly help us reduce losses if not incur profits, " said an official at state-owned carrier Air India Ltd.
In the end, a Sikh taxi driver races through empty streets to take them to the airport, where an Air India plane waits.
Kingfisher Airlines is so broke it cannot pay its gorgeous cabin crew, for instance, and Air India is also manifestly in deep distress.
Late Thursday, a special Air India flight traveled to the Pakistani city and brought Mr. Singh's body home to Amritsar in India's Punjab state.
In the airline sector, national carrier Air India Ltd. hasn't made a profit in five years and is surviving mainly on government cash handouts.
Last week, two Canadian Sikhs were charged with having planted the 1985 bomb that killed 329 passengers and crew aboard an Air India flight.
The Indian pilot strike entered its third day Friday, forcing Air India to operate only 50 flights compared to the 320 daily flights it normally makes.
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State-run Air India said its six Dreamliners were operating normally.
Polish carrier LOT is planning to resume services June 5, while Air India has said in local reports it is planning to reintroduce its Dreamliners to the skies in May.
Arun Mishra, India's director general of civil aviation, said permission for the one-off flights was granted following a request from Air India, so the jets could be maintained at its Mumbai facility.
Famous for the December 1998 hijacking of an Air India passenger jet and the May 8, 2002 murder of a busload of French engineers in Karachi, Harakat members make no secret of their ties.
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Mr Mittal's London offices, set high above posh Berkeley Square, are next to the sari-clad hostesses of the Air India office on one side and the English toffs and tarts that frequent Annabel's nightclub on the other.
In April a float in a Sikh parade in Surrey, a Vancouver suburb, included in a display of Sikh martyrs and saints a photograph of Talwinder Parmar, the assumed mastermind (now dead) of the Air India attack.
Michael Farr, a leading British 'Tintinologist', says Herge actually did a "lot of research" for Tintin's Indian journey: he secured catalogues of all the aircraft Air India used and uniforms the cabin crew wore at that time.
After failing to find buyers for Air India and Indian Airlines, and running into flak over privatising a bakery and an aluminium company, the government last month sold controlling stakes in two businesses involved in computers and telecoms equipment with little opposition.
One theory is that a growing mass of particulates, such as coal dust and biomass (from the widespread use of cow dung as fuel, for instance) in the air above India, now hinders rainfall.
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