Originally Posted by HMPS (Post 24625660)

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The AI spokesman said: "The two had an argument. They have settled the issue."

According to senior AI commanders, the co-pilot in question has reportedly faced similar charges in the past too. "Three years back, he asked the commander of a flight to come out of the cockpit, remove the stars on his shirt collar (appulates) and then fought with him. A year later, another commander complained about his 'rude and unbecoming' behavior in the cockpit and questioned his state of mind," said a senior commander.

"AI and DGCA should examine this latest problem in the cockpit. If the complaints about the said co-pilot's behavior are found true, then in the interest of aviation safety the authorities must act," said a pilot

Neither DGCA chief M Sathiyavathy, nor her deputies could be reached for comments.
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If this is true is it one more reason not to try AI again after a long abstentation ? This co pilot if the reports are true, must know somebody ! Just think he will be a commander one day :td:

Originally Posted by onlysuites (Post 24677100)

Flew Jet BKK-DEL the other day and the aircraft was a old 737 without any IFE in J :td: Worth complaining as it is a 4hr flight? According to the crew it was due to a last minute equipment change.

Originally Posted by UA Fan (Post 24692902)

I am considering buying an Indian SIM card for my international roaming needs. I am currently with Cricket Wireless and they have no sort of international service. I would use the card for the most part in the US. I am looking for recommendations on which service to use. Some important things are:

- Should be a prepaid service, with no monthly fees
- As long a period of no activity
- easy way to recharge account - preferably auto recharge
- cheap call rates
- quality of calls.

Any such service?

Originally Posted by Nimish (Post 24696334)

Nope - nothing even remotely close to what you need. Better luck switching to a postpaid T-Mobile USA plan, that includes international voice/ data roaming at a very reasonable charge.

Originally Posted by HMPS (Post 24724674)

Any more on the AI commander who delayed his flight for hours because his gas / oxygen mask was dirty ?

Originally Posted by wolf72 (Post 24731689)

He was brave.

Originally Posted by PVDtoDEL (Post 24733704)

How can we know? Maybe he was brave, maybe he is guilty of insubordination, maybe he is actually a woman in disguise. We don't know. We never will know. Such is life.

I simply don't understand how this qualifies as "news". A flight got delayed a few hours due to technical reasons. Surely there are more pressing issues for all of us to worry about?

Originally Posted by HMPS (Post 24735629)

We know you are a AI loyalist.
In and by itself this would be news only if the producer / editor needed tonfillnup space. To me it is one more in a continuing saga of why to shun AI.

You say few hours late, so big deal. have you asked those who missed important deadlines because of childish behavior of a Commander ? Whtat is the domino effect of one flight departing and arriving hours after sked time ?

Originally Posted by PVDtoDEL (Post 24735666)

If this situation is indeed the pilot's fault, AI will deal with him through their own disciplinary procedures. It's not the public's problem. There is also a possibility that the pilot was correct to delay the flight. We don't know.

Using anecdotal evidence is not an effective argument against flying AI. If you want to pull out on-time statistics and use them to justify shunning AI, that would be a more valid argument. However, the statistics show that AI does not perform particularly differently than its competitors.

This story doesn't tell you much useful information about AI's on time record at all - all it tells you about is how incompetent AI's public relations team is. If this was a private airline, the journo's hands would have been greased properly and we never would have heard this "news".

Nothing to see here, let's move along...

Originally Posted by HMPS (Post 24735873)

Suppositions you present are NOT reasons enough for me ( and I dare say others) to use AI. Sorry.

Originally Posted by HMPS (Post 24735873)

just because other airline's report card on punctuality matches AI is an argument that is futile. we all remember when we used such argument in our childhood, reply was would you jump in the well because so and so does ?

Originally Posted by HMPS (Post 24735629)

We know you are a AI loyalist.
In and by itself this would be news only if the producer / editor needed tonfillnup space. To me it is one more in a continuing saga of why to shun AI.

You say few hours late, so big deal. have you asked those who missed important deadlines because of childish behavior of a Commander ? Whtat is the domino effect of one flight departing and arriving hours after sked time ?