Western leaders- US President Joe Biden, French President Emmanuel Macron and UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Tuesday hailed Air India deals with Airbus and Boeing to buy passenger aircraft worth multi-billion dollars.
Air India, India's flag carrier and part of the Tata Sons conglomerate, today announced that it had signed letters of intent with Airbus and Boeing to acquire both widebody and single-aisle aircraft.
US President Joe Biden hailed a "historic agreement" for Air India to purchase Boeing airplanes. France President Emmanuel Macron had earlier hailed the contract between Airbus and Tata Sons and said it marks a new stage in India and France's strategic partnership
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and French President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday virtually attended the launch of the new Air India-Airbus partnership. The Tata group will buy 250 aircraft from Airbus, in what is the world's largest aviation deal in history.
Majority of the passengers who were put in the No Fly List were either not wearing masks or not cooperating with the crew members, according to a written reply by Gen V.K. Singh (Retd), Minister of State for Civil Aviation to a question in Rajya Sabha.
Hours after flames were detected in a Calicut-bound Air India Express flight from Abu Dhabi, the airlines issued a statement and said that one of the engines of the flight caught fire following a technical snag.