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Problem with going to Japan - you return and expect things to be still civilisedA recent trip to Japan left a lasting impression. The country's remarkable civility, efficient systems, and rich culture were observed. Fro...
'Danger' written on tissue paper delays IndiGo's Mumbai-Ahmedabad flight by 8 hours; case filedAn IndiGo flight bound for Ahmedabad faced a significant delay of over eight hours on Wednesday. The disruption occurred after a tissue pap...
Second bomb scare in a day at Kolkata airport; Dibrugarh flight lands safelyKolkata airport experienced two security scares on Saturday. An IndiGo flight bound for Dibrugarh landed safely after a suspicious message ...
Bomb threat on IndiGo Kolkata–Shillong plane turns out to be hoax; flight departs after checksAn IndiGo flight to Shillong experienced a bomb scare at Kolkata airport on Saturday morning. Passengers were evacuated and the aircraft wa...
How a Bengaluru-bound flight's bathroom glitch could turn into a $3.4 million problem for Boeing?A passenger’s mid-air ordeal in a SpiceJet flight from Mumbai to Bengaluru—getting trapped in a faulty lavatory—has led to the FAA proposin...
Air India probe into Chicago-Delhi flight toilet trouble finds plumbing blocked by flushed bags, rags, and moreAir India's flight AI126 from Chicago to Delhi had to return to Chicago after nine hours due to several unserviceable lavatories. The inves...
Air India flight from Chicago to Delhi returns after 10 hours in air as nine out of ten toilets become non-functionalAn Air India flight from Chicago to Delhi had to turn back after ten hours due to most of its toilets being non-functional. A Boeing 777-33...
Drain on airline profits means smaller loosRyanair’s recently declared first-quarter profits are down by a fifth amid rising oil prices and costs, including a 20% pay hike for pilots...
DGCA moves NGT, says impossible for aircraft to dump poop mid-airThe DGCA has now moved a plea seeking review and stay of the December 20, 2016 and the January 10 order of the tribunal claiming that it wa...
Railways mulls vacuum toilets in trainsRailway Minister Piyush Goyal today conceded that vacuum toilets could be an alternative to bio-toilets, which he said had issues of bad od...
Indians’ lack of toilet hygiene delays long-haul flights, makes airlines bleedIn case of long-haul flights, one would assume that passengers would know how to use a toilet properly. But the reality in India is quite d...
DRI officers seize gold worth Rs 1.06 crore from SpiceJet aircraft toiletThe Directorate of Revenue Intelligence officials have seized gold worth Rs 1.06 crore from a flight that arrived here from Thailand.
Railways' first vacuum toilets on trial in Dibrugarh Rajdhani from MondayFitted in the First AC coach at an estimated cost of about Rs 3 lakh, the vucuum toilet is also equipped with the bio-digester system.
US pilot flushed bullets down plane's toilet; probe orderedA United Airlines pilot flushed bullets down a toilet on board a flight to Germany after realising he had brought live ammunition onto the ...
Clogged toilets ground Air India’s Australia-Delhi flightEarlier this year, an AI flight took off for Frankfurt from Delhi. Three hours later, it was back at the IGI Airport as the toilets were cl...
- Railway Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal inspects fitting of bio-toilets on passenger coaches
Railway Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal today made a surprise visit to the New Delhi Railway station to inspect the fitting of bio-toilets on p...
- Airlines go all out to make money; hike fees on every possible service
Desi airlines, which collectively lost $2 billion last fiscal, have hiked existing fees and introduced a host of new ones in last two to th...