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An Indian student was handcuffed and detained by U.S. immigration authorities at Newark airport, and viral video shows him expressing frustration at being refused entry into the United States despite holding a valid visa.
I’ve confirmed that American Airlines is moving 20% – 30% of its IT operation to Hyderabad, India. There’s been some exaggeration online, claiming that ‘all’ of IT is moving. And I haven’t been able to substantiate that it reaches fully one-third or 40%, but it is clearly significant.
Groups of men can be seen standing in the aisle, talking loudly, snacking, and disregarding flight attendant pleas to remain seated. The video’s caption read that such actions “bring a bad name to the country.”
I’ve been to India many times and still find much outside of my comprehension, including its laws. How is it that a woman who entered the country to have an affair with a taxi driver she’d met on a previous trip wound up detained by police for having done so, with a case being filed against the taxi driver?
The forecourt canopy, part of the roof of Delhi airport terminal 1, partially collapsed this morning amidst heavy rain, with initial reports suggesting eight injured and one dead though those numbers have grown. Nine inches of rain had been recorded in 24 hours and continue through Tuesday. Flights were suspended.
United Airlines award space is wide open between the U.S. and India. You can fly out of San Francisco, Chicago, or Newark (or, potentially, connect to one of those cities) and on to Delhi with some availability to Mumbai as well. You’ll find at least two business class seats every day through the end of the schedule.
India has a population equal in size to China. However it isn’t nearly as significant economically or geopolitically. It hasn’t experienced China’s growth. India’s economy is about one fifth the size. And even on a purchasing power parity basis the average Indian is about 60% poorer than the average resident of China.
They don’t think they need foreign flights to improve commerce and bring down costs. They’d rather protect their homegrown oligarchs.
On Friday night’s American Airlines flight 292 from New York JFK to Delhi, a passenger urinated on a seat opponent. Unlike recent similar incidents, though, this wasn’t a case of the man walking up and aiming at the victim. I
Once you’re on the bus you can usually be confident that you’ll at least make the plane. I’ve never seen passengers miss a flight once on the bus.
Yet somehow Indian low cost carrier Go First boarded passengers on a 1058 mile flight from Bangalore to Delhi onto a bus and then forgot them. Reportedly 55 passengers were left behind. Four buses were used for the flight, but only three bus loads of passengers actually made it into the cabin.
Seventy eight percent of passengers on a single flight from Italy to India tested positive for Covid-19 on arrival. The Wednesday Boeing 767 charter from Milan Bergamo to Amritsar on EuroAtlantic Airways had 179 passengers on board and 125 tested positive for Covid-19 (78%) after landing. That’s no entirely surprising!
Gary Leff is one of the foremost experts in the field of miles, points, and frequent business travel -- a topic he has covered since 2002.
Co-founder of frequent flyer community InsideFlyer.com, emcee of the Freddie Awards, and named one of the "World's Top Travel Experts" by Conde' Nast Traveler (2010-Present) Gary has been a guest on most major news media, profiled in several top print publications, and published broadly on the topic of consumer loyalty. More About Gary »
