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Passengers to experience flight-like hospitality by air hostesses in Vande Bharat Express
Mon, Aug 05, 2019
With an aim to provide flight-like hospitality to passengers onboard, Indian Railways has implemented a pilot project where they have deployed air hostesses and flight stewards in India’s supreme train, Vande Bharat Express. The Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) have been given the responsibility to supervise the trail project. The service has already been started in Vande Bharat Express. In a big step aimed at enhancing passengers' convenience, the IRCTC has brought 34 trained air hostesses and flight steward on Vande Bharat Express for the duration of six months for a trail service. If turned out to be successful, such service is likely to be implemented in other trains as well. IRCTC is paying Rs 25,000 per month to these air hostesses and flight stewards for better services. In February this year, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had flagged off the train's maiden run from New Delhi to Varanasi. The train is designed and developed by a Chennai-based Railways Production unit, Integral Coach Factory in just 18 months which also includes the in-house design and manufacture, computer modeling and working etc.
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Watch: Verbal spat erupts between passengers and crew onboard Air India flight
Fri, Jul 05, 2019
A verbal spat erupted between passengers and crew members’ onboard Air India flight, allegedly after the flight failed to take off after 4 hours of delay and was rescheduled thrice. It was scheduled to take off at 3:55 pm today.
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Watch: Spice Jet flight makes emergency landing at Jaipur airport
Wed, Jun 12, 2019
A Spice Jet flight made an emergency landing at Jaipur airport at 9:03 am on Wednesday. The Dubai-Jaipur SG 58 flight with 189 passengers onboard had to make an emergency landing after one of its tires burst. Passengers were safely evacuated.
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Spoiler alert! In-flight mobile services may cost you Rs 700-1000 for two-hour journey
Sun, Dec 23, 2018
The chief technology officer of broadband technology firm Hughes India, K Krishna, told PTI that satellite bandwidth charges in India are 7-8 times higher compared to other parts of the world due to the condition that bandwidth can be procured from Indian Space Research Organisation only.
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