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Air India's Maharaja Club and IHG One Rewards now let members earn and convert points across each other's programs, with a 3x points promotion running through the end of 2026.
Tata Sons and Singapore Airlines are closing in on a ₹100 billion ($1.1 billion) capital injection for Air India — but unlike past bailouts, the cash will land in installments tied to performance milestones, after a fiscal 2026 loss that more than doubled to $2.3 billion.
Air India is bringing back most of the 145 weekly international flights it slashed over a brutal summer of fuel costs and airspace restrictions — and adding extra frequencies to New York, Tokyo and five European cities for the winter season.
Ahmedabad joined Varanasi and Amritsar as the third city under India's Hub-and-Spoke aviation strategy on September 1, letting international travelers clear immigration once, before boarding, instead of again in Delhi.
A two-month pilot on the Chennai-Delhi-Frankfurt route slashed cargo connection times from up to 48 hours to as little as 5, doubling daily volumes — and Air India is now expanding the model to five Indian cities and three European hubs.
Former IATA chief Willie Walsh officially took charge as IndiGo's CEO on August 3, 2026, inheriting a plan to push international capacity to 40% by FY30 on the back of 60 incoming Airbus A350s.
An Air India A320 lost 250 feet in seconds over India on August 4, injuring more than a dozen people after an autopilot disconnect and a stall warning — and the captain's psychoactive substance screening has now triggered a confirmatory retest.
NOTAM A476/26 keeps Pakistani airspace shut to Indian-registered aircraft until 24 September, the sixteenth rollover since April 2025. The detours are now a structural cost line for Indian carriers, and they are showing up in network decisions.
India's regulator is preparing to lift mandatory random psychoactive-substance screening of airline crew from 10 per cent to more than 25 per cent a year, weeks after an Air India captain returned a positive confirmatory test. Pilots want saliva testing and procedural safeguards added at the same time.
IndiGo will end its damp-leased widebody operations by late October 2026, pausing most of its Europe ambitions and leaving Air India as India's only long-haul operator until the A350s arrive.