New Delhi: Air India has slipped in its payments to key spare parts vendors, prompting many to stop supplies to the ailing airline.

According to sources, the dues of suppliers such as Airbus, Honeywell, Meggit International, Goodrich, Hamilton, Wesco Electrical remain unpaid, some for more than three quarters, leading to the shortage of parts that has resulted in a large part of the fleet being grounded.

A section of Air India pilots have threatened to stop operations if their flying allowance dues are not paid immediately.

Alleging that while the salaries and perks of other employees are paid in full albeit with a delay, the same for the pilots and cabin crew are "ignored", despite the fact that flying allowances of these two licenced categories of employees form a major chunk of their salaries.

National carrier Air India on Monday said it is yet to receive the equity infusion from the government to meet its working capital requirements after an airline’s pilots’ body claimed grounding of several aircraft due to lack of funds.

“There is no money for spares and maintenance of these aircraft. Some of them have been grounded for the last three months.

Lack of funds is leading to more problems than just non-payment of salaries at national carrier Air India. According to the Indian Commercial Pilots Association (ICPA), Air India has grounded 23 per cent of its present fleet, mainly due to lack of spares and poor maintenance.

Air India Independence Day sale: On the occasion of India’s Independence Day, the national air carrier is offering an attractive discount on flight tickets across the airline’s network, Air India said on its official Twitter handle. The customers can avail full benefits of the offer by making an online booking at air carrier’s website – airindia.in. The latest discount offer is applicable till 15, 2018.

Even as Congress MP Shashi Tharoor took to Twitter on Thursday criticising Air India for cancelling its scheduled flight from Thiruvananthapuram to Bengaluru from August 23 to 27, which is during the Onam festival week, thus inconveniencing passengers who had booked months in advance, the national carrier said that the cancellation has been done to utilise the aircraft for Haj pilgrims.

A Delhi-bound Air India flight from Milan had to return to the airport in Italy within 30 minutes of take-off after a passenger tried to enter the cockpit, the airline said on Saturday.

According to an airline spokesperson, the incident happened on August 2 when the passenger, and Indian citizen whose seat no. was 32C, tried to enter the cockpit in clear violation of aviation rule.

National passenger carrier Air India will enhance a codeshare agreement with Ethiopian Airlines, the company said in a statement on Thursday.

According to the statement, the expanded codeshare agreement will allow its passengers to access Ethiopian Airlines' network in Africa.

New Delhi: Air India Ltd has committed to clear dues to banks and aircraft leasing companies in a fortnight by when it expects to get fresh capital infusion from the government, said an official at the debt-ridden national carrier.

The carrier, which recently failed to draw investor interest in a privatisation attempt by the government, has sought about Rs 2,121 crore from the government this fiscal year as part of an ongoing bailout package.

New Delhi: The proposed sale of iconic Air India tower in Mumbai could turn out to be a damp squib as the prospective buyer JNPT’s projection of earnings from the property is much lower than the airline's expectation.

The initial estimate by Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust (JNPT), the government-owned entity that is being prodded to acquire the building on Queen's necklace in the financial capital

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