An Air India plane carrying 179 passengers struck a building at Stockholm's Arlanda airport with its wingtip as it taxied to gate on Wednesday, but no injuries were reported, police said.

"The 179 passengers could disembark from the plane on a mobile staircase and thereafter enter the terminal," police wrote in a statement.

India’s major state-run airline Air India has come out with its “Night Flights” offer, using which passengers can grab flight tickets for as low as Rs 1,000. “Night Flights, beat peak rush hour at attractive fares,” the airline said on its website. According to the details available on the firm’s website, the latest offer is effective 30th November 2018. Under the offer, customers can book flights between Bengaluru-Ahmedabad at just Rs 1,000.

In a letter shot off to minister of state for civil aviation Jayant Sinha early this month, a top executive of Madrid-based information technology firm Amadeus estimated the revenue loss to travel agents of Air India to be around Rs 1,825 crore once state-owned carrier moves to a single global distribution system (GDS) for domestic flights.

Mumbai: Cash-strapped Air India Ltd expects to raise as much as $850 million (about 6,100 crore) by selling and leasing back seven wide-body aircraft over the next 15 days. The list includes six Boeing 787 (Dreamliner) and one Boeing 777 aircraft, which were delivered to the airline between November 2016 and March 2018, according to a tender posted on 16 November on the airline’s website.

Loss-making national carrier Air India plans to mop up Rs 700-800 crore by selling over 70 residential and commercial properties spread across the country, a senior airline official said on Thursday.

This fresh bid is a part of the airline’s real estate assets monetisation plan approved by the then UPA Government in 2012.

MUMBAI: Loss-making national carrier Air India plans to mop up Rs 700-800 crore by selling over 70 residential and commercial properties spread across the country, a senior airline official said Thursday.

This fresh bid is a part of the airline's real estate assets monetisation plan approved by the then UPA government in 2012.

Air India on Sunday grounded its chief of operations Captain AK Kathpalia after he allegedly failed to clear pre-flight alcohol test. Kathpalia was to operate the airline’s London-New Delhi flight on Sunday afternoon.

Sources said that Air India had to call another pilot to replace him and operate the flight (AI-111) which departed after a delay of 55 minutes, causing inconvenience to passengers.

More than 30 flights operating through the Mumbai airport were delayed by 2-6 hours after about 400 employees of Air India’s ground handling unit struck work since Wednesday night.

Flights were delayed between 11 pm Wednesday and 12 pm Thursday, said multiple people aware of the situation. There were, however, no cancellations, they said.

New Delhi: Due to a strike by transport workers of Air India, several flights from Mumbai’s Chattrapathi Shivaji International Airport have been delayed, according to a report. The contractual ground staff of Air India Air Transport Services Limited (AIATSL) at Mumbai airport are on a strike since last night to protest against sacking of some workers.

State-owned Air India Saturday announced the launch of red-eye flights to some of the domestic destinations, including Goa, starting next month end.

A red-eye flight departs generally late at night and arrives early morning. Because of their low fares, these flights are quite popular abroad, especially in the US and Europe.

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