Manju V
@ManjuVTOI
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Journalist with the Times of India. Writes on aviation and travel trends. Views expressed are personal.
Mumbai, India
Joined August 2012
Finally, IndiGo announces some financial compensation to its flyers stranded at airports on Dec 3,4 and 5 due to "congestion". * IndiGo to offer Rs 10,000 travel vouchers to "severely impacted" passengers, usable for 12 months. * This is over and above the existing govt
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India is the third-largest domestic aviation market in the world, but it flies like a single-carrier economy. IndiGo holds 65% of the sky shaping a market where one bad week becomes a national crisis. * Last week’s meltdown wasn’t unique, airlines abroad have crashed the same
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I believe he held his ground and refused to adjust the FDTL deadline, which disrupted 🔵’s plans. Unfortunately, he was let down by subordinates who were unduly influenced and by a ministry that may have yielded to political funding pressures. It was only after he assumed office
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Breaking Inside News From junior sources in @DGCAIndia it has come to light that @IndiGo6E has penetrated various departments of DGCA at the lower levels of which the most important is the FSD: IndiGo employees have unrestricted access FSD department computers and go as far as
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With all due respect, putting laws in abeyance to overcome a situation is understandable but a very dangerous precedent and must be exercised with extreme restraint. The rule of law usually contemplates penalties for non compliance, not relaxations.
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Why isn’t the DGCA under investigation? 1) IndiGo couldn't have failed the passengers without DGCA's help. 2) DGCA approved a winter schedule despite knowing IndiGo couldn’t staff under Phase II FDTL. 3) Other airlines hired, IndiGo didn’t, yet DGCA let it sell more flights
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Take a moment to register IndiGo’s extraordinary confidence that the Phase-2 FDTL deadline would be pushed again. They were so sure of their bet they left behind the safety harness and sprinted off the ledge, firm in the belief that the “universe” always obliges. There are so
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Delhi Airport is at it again. One aircraft was told he is 210 in departure sequence… yes you heard it right 210 💀
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Fatigue isn’t PR spin. Science shows crash risk ~1.7× at 10–12h duty and ~5.6× at ≥13h; night/WOCL (02:00–05:59) is worst. Exemptions adding night sectors = ambulances at the bottom of the cliff. Some corporate-leaning media won’t say it—only glorify DGCA’s “extra ambulance”.
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🧵 READ THE WORDS — NOT JUST THE DATA (VT-ANB Preliminary Report) 1️⃣ Every word in the report is deliberate. When data comes straight from the recorder, it says “as per EAFR.” When it doesn’t, the source is silent — and that silence means something. Example sequence 👇 • Vr
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1/ Pleased to present my book Varaha: Hunnic Migration to Hind to Shri Sanjeev Sanyal, Member, Economic Advisory Council to the PM. The work traces the journey from Xiongnu origins to the Turk Shahi and Hindu Shahi dynasties, restoring the memory of forgotten defenders of
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I am a Jain and for my entire childhood I have been taught to feed pigeons by my parents and grandparents. It was a habit to visit the 'kabutarkhana' after the temple. But let me tell you some facts. The Pigeon droppings, feathers, and even dried urine contain tiny protein
Crowd : > Our parents taught us to give bread to Dogs, Grass to Cows and Feed to Pigeons > This govt. wants to take our culture out of us > We are ready to pay 100 % Tax on feeding Dogs, Cows, Pigeons like Trump Protesting against stopping feeding pigeons by @mybmc in Mumbai
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🚨 #AI171 | CVR Data Leak = Possible Data Protection Law Violation AAIB’s appeal fails to confirm if cockpit voice data was secured. Yet foreign media published CVR secrets & crew actions. Leaked CVR audio = leaked identifiable personal data of the flight crew. ⚖️ Under India’s
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Now DGCA orders all Indian carriers operating Boeing aircraft to inspect the locking mechanism on fuel control switches.
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Etihad inspected the locking mechanism on fuel control switches of its B787 (A6 BLI) on Sunday. The engineering work order was issued after this aircraft diverted to Abu Dhabi minutes after take off for Hyderabad. The work order is in line with the FAA 2018 circular which the
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Sharp edit by @flyingamit "certain foreign media outlets have floated malicious theories suggesting pilot error or intentional action".. "no factual basis exists to blame the crew". "RAT already deployed when aircraft barely a few storeys off the ground." https://t.co/rRenxCS37c
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"In the cockpit voice recording, one of the pilots is heard asking the other why he cut off the fuel supply. The other pilot responded that he did not do so." AAIB preliminary report on the AI-171 Boeing 787 Dreamliner accident in Ahmedabad. https://t.co/KarB9MUpmX
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An Air India flight AI-171 crashed after taking off from Ahmedabad. The fuel supply to both engines cut off seconds after takeoff. Pilots denied cutti
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