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Kerala airport closes its runway and suspends all flights for five hours to allow passage to Lord Padmanabhaswamy’s procession

OpIndia Staff - 1 November, 2022

According to the traditional practice, the processional idols of the temple deities are carried to the sea behind the airport for a holy dip twice a year in a ceremonial march.

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Amritsar airport security nabs passenger Md Danish for molesting IndiGo air hostess

OpIndia Staff - 24 July, 2022

Following a heated argument with an airhostess onboard IndiGo flight from Lucknow to Srinagar, Kanpur resident Mohammad Danish indulged in sexually inappropriate behaviour with her.

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Delhi bound Spicejet flight returns to Patna as engine catches fire after take-off, lands safely

OpIndia Staff - 19 June, 2022

Delhi-Patna Spicejet flight SG-723 returned to Patna for emergency landing after its left engine caught fire

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Canada: Ex-NHL player calls Toronto Pearson Airport ‘worst place on earth’, was stuck for a day due to delays and mismanagement

OpIndia Staff - 7 June, 2022

According to Toronto airport authorities, the problem has arisen due to understaffing of management at a time when the terminal is seeing approximately 45,000 international arrivals in a day.

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Stunning visuals of the new terminal from the Veer Savarkar International Airport in Andaman & Nicobar Islands

OpIndia Staff - 23 May, 2022

The Airports Authority of India has released some amazing photographs of a new terminal that is under construction at the Veer Savarkar International Airport in Port Blair, Andaman & Nicobar Islands.

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Aakar Patel can’t leave India yet, his happiness lasts just a day as CBI court stays Delhi court order

OpIndia Staff - 8 April, 2022

Special CBI court in Delhi stayed the ACMM order allowing Aakar Patel to travel abroad

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American Airlines announces ‘buses-as-flights’ plan to combat pilot shortage and high fuel prices, netizens remind them, ‘they are just buses’

OpIndia Staff - 8 April, 2022

So basically, while the tickets will be sold by the AA as flight tickets, passengers will check-in in Allentown or New Jersey airports and travel to Philadelphia by bus, provided by the airline.

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Did you know: There is a mazaar deep inside Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport, uncomfortably close to the runway

OpIndia Staff - 23 March, 2022

As per the hearsay, the mazaar or dargah at Delhi International Airport belongs to two Sufi saints - Bade Baba (Baba Kale Khan) and Chhote Baba (Baba Roshan Khan).

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Watch: Air India pilots make high-risk landing at London’s Heathrow amidst gusting winds

OpIndia Staff - 20 February, 2022

Both the Air India aircraft were Boeing 787 Dreamliner. Captain Anchit Bhardwaj was commander of AI147 and Captain Aditya Rao was at the helm onboard AI145.

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