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Tarun Shukla
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| Award-winning journalist | Aviation & Defence editor @EconomicTimes Prime | Reported for @WSJ @Newsday @LiveMint | @SopAsia for investigations |
Feb 10, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Good news :

- Hear India has relaxed international travel norms

- This includes no pre-departure RT-PCR test as long as you are full vaccinated and no need for home quarantine

- Only 2% of those flying in will be tested randomly.

#fly #aviation #airlines #travel 🛩️ 🌮 🍹 🍩 More :

- Self declaration form to be uploaded to Air Suvidha

- Copy of RT-PCR report within 72hrs *OR* Certificate of full vaccination to be uploaded to Air Suvidha

- Reciprocal agreement for recognition of vaccination certificates between India and 82 named countries.
May 24, 2020 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
So far word or domestic flights:

- All flights to Kolkata, Bagdogra cancelled, now 10 arrivals & 10 departures from May 28th

- Mumbai from May 25th, 25 A & D, one-third of approved flights for other Maharashtra cities

- Hyderabad, May 25th, 15 A&D - Vijayawada and Visakhapatnam from 26th May

- Srinagar, 12 arrivals and departures, Jammu 8 from May 25th
May 23, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
- No flights to Mumbai, Chennai, Nagpur, Pune

- Quarantine in Bengaluru, Srinagar, Jammu, Cochin Guwahati etc

What a pandemonium for airlines & passengers who are clueless whether to book and then suffer with their money locked in a credit shell without any hearing. @MoCA_GoI Goa seems to be saying if you don't want a quarantine you need a coronavirus negative certificate before boarding a flight per @CNNnews18.
May 22, 2020 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Terrible coincidence :

- Air India Express flight IX-812 crashed doing Dubai - Mangalore today early morning in 2010.

- Pakistan International Airlines flight PK-8303 Lahore - Karachi today.

#mayday. Thank you for reminding @ronak_hv. Had remembered all of the month and forgot today in our flight resumption.
May 21, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Regulator DGCA approves flight schedule for new flights that are to start from Monday.

Fares should reflect soon on airline websites now. IndiGo loaded, starts with Rs 7000 for Monday flights. Image
May 21, 2020 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
This new one-third of domestic flights order will be valid till late August : Aviation Minister Puri Fares will be regulated and should be within range.
May 21, 2020 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Here are the official flying guidelines made by @MoCA_GoI :

- Elders, pregnant ladies, passengers with health issues should avoid travel

- No physical check-in can be done, only those with web-check-in to be allowed

- Airlines should adhere to fares advised by government. 1/n - Aarogya Setu App mandatory, those marked red on it can't fly

- Masks mandatory, full protective suit for cabin crew

- No meals to be given

- Only one check-in bag allowed

- Report two hours before the flights. 2/n
May 21, 2020 • 4 tweets • 5 min read
Hearing :

- @airindiain 's hangars in Kolkata hit hard by #Amphan

- Assessment on of damage because of water logging. One plane looks hit.

- AI has around 6 - mostly @Airbus A319/A320 planes - there, it had flown off 3 @ATRaircraft to Ranchi before cyclone. ImageImageImageImage Here is a video forward from Air India hangar :

#Kolkata #Amphan
May 20, 2020 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
Some more on flights reopening :

- Hectic work on schedule, ops, engineering starts

- One-third of flights on each route likely to be allowed for each airline

- Likely no middle seat restrictions

- View is to start all airports, official @HardeepSPuri briefing tom. - And importanly flight bookings to start tomorrow.

- For cleared flights ✈.
May 18, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
- IndiGo, SpiceJet, GoAir booking international flights from 1st June it seems.

- Air India and Vistara are not. h/t @kushanmitra.

- Wonder if this will be another credit shell issue if flights cancelled and no refunds. Image Not sure as of today if domestic starting on 1st Junr leave alone international.

@MoCA_GoI @HardeepSPuri @PMOIndia

May 15, 2020 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
How keen are you to fly again when domestic flights reopen? Your vote please : An airline official (who is super keen it starts) : Post vaccine/low cases.

A aircraft chap : As often as needed.

Different takes.
May 13, 2020 • 8 tweets • 4 min read
Even as Indian airlines hold their breath to see if there is anything for them in the new economic package, behind the scenes, they are working very differently & in that lies hint about their future as we dig it out in our @ETPrime_com deep-dive today :

prime.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/75701940/… Airlines always have these cycles, never a dull day 🙂

May 12, 2020 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Hamme ladna bhi hoga, aage badhna bhi hai.. @PMOIndia. Heart attack ho hojayega, one said
May 7, 2020 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
Since some asking :

- People coming to India will be able to connect on some @airindiain domestic flights (adding to this thread later).

- There is also a view that 14 days later some more flights might be allowed or state govt will help, so people shouldn't worry. Here is the schedule ( some like Srinagar there) ImageImageImageImage
May 6, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Alert :

Air India creating a special pathway for out of India flights on its website, bookings to start soon. Important update I heard & tips :

- Some flights like to San Francisco already open so check your route & book quick

- If you had @airindiain ticket call the call center & get some 30% off. Ideally just book as few seats

- US UK Singapore etc have cleared flights some awaited.
May 5, 2020 • 5 tweets • 4 min read
This could be the flight schedule from Day 1 to Day 7 to bring back Indians from abroad. #lockdown #coronavirus #flights Image And this is the form you are likely to sign off for health. #lockdown #coronavirus #flights Image
May 2, 2020 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
Air conditioned buses from Nanded to Punjab now being suspected to have led to a #coronavirus spike there.

Question : When flights and airports restart, what happens to air conditioning? Research has shown that there is "very little risk" of any communicable disease being transmitted on board an aircraft per @WHO.

who.int/ith/mode_of_tr…
May 1, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Maruti Suzuki sales in April : 0

Air traffic in April will also be : 0 True...though govt should allow such sales from @amazonIN @Flipkart etc, if your phone also dies you will out of touch. @PMOIndia

Apr 30, 2020 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Even this seems of value in such times :

The @IndiGo6E salary sms has arrived. Full salary that is. SpiceJet now says :

- It will pay part salaries to over 92% of its employees on May 1st.

- "The company has devised a structure where all employees will be paid according to the work hours contributed while maintaining basic thresholds."

- No numbers on what % will it be.
Apr 23, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
IndiGo says :

- Reversing pay cuts it announced for its employees for April in light of the govt advisory

- Will pay full salaries in April too. - Top management has decided to take the pay cut though.
Apr 20, 2020 • 10 tweets • 7 min read
Airfare refunds have gone into a "hundi" - you can't touch it, you can't even feel it. But what if an airline goes belly up? What are the options before the passenger? Who is the govt listening to? We try to find out in our @ETPrime_com deep dive today 🛩️. prime.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/75235879/… And that's a lot of money. ✈