IndiGo cancels 80 flights following engine issues
InterGlobe Aviationrun budget carrier IndiGo on Friday cancelled over 80 flights as the airline grounded more Airbus A320 Neo (new engine option) planes due to engine issues, according to sources.
Indigo, however, called the information misleading . “Eight Neos were grounded, schedule for which was planned in the month of June on non-availability of these aircraft for July, August and September,” IndiGo statement said.
“No new flight cancellations have been made. The affected passengers have already been accommodated with suitable options,” they said.
However, sources said as many as 13 A320 Neo aircraft are on ground due to the Pratt & Whitney-supplied engine issues, forcing the airline to cancel the flights.
They added a total of 667 flights were cancelled by IndiGo between June 21 and July 3 this year, with 61 flights cancelled on June 27 alone, due to the grounding of these planes. demanded roll-back of the note ba, BSP supremo Mayawati had termed demonetisation was antipoor and Dalits.
Although the total expenditure of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for the hotly-contested elections to five states was ₹218.25 crore, over 80% of it was for canvassing in UP polls.
The party incurred an expenditure of ₹23.47 in Uttarakhand, ₹7.86 crore in Manipur, followed by ₹7.43 crore in Punjab and ₹4.37 crore in Goa. Except Punjab, where the Congress won, the BJP formed government in other states.
In Uttarakhand, it won 57 of the 70 seats but was able to dislodge the Congress that emerged as the majority party in Goa and Manipur. The BJP staked claim with the help of fringe parties.
Like other parties, the BJP has shown maximum expenditure on travel of its 40 senior leaders such as party president Amit Shah and union cabinet ministers.
In recent years, IT services companies have been confronted with questions over their business model that is based on export of software services.
Murthy has publicly lambasted Infosys over the course of the past few months for lapses in corporate governance. In his August 9 mail, he criticised the board for failing to uphold the company’s famed governance standards and not “creating checks and balances required in any well-run company.”
He has in the past questioned the $200 million purchase of Panaya and generous severance payments made to former CFO Rajiv Bansal (part of which was stopped later) and to former general counsel David Kennedy.
In a brief four-paragraph statement on Friday in response to the Infosys statement, Murthy said: “I voluntarily left the Board in 2014 and am not seeking any money, position for children or power. My concern primarily was the deteriorating standard of corporate governance which I have repeatedly brought to attention.”
Murthy said he had been told by several shareholders who had read a whistle-blower report that it is hard to believe “a report produced by a set of lawyers hired by a set of accused, giving a clean chit to the accused, and the accused refusing to disclose why they got a clean chit. They say that this is not the way an impartial and objective investigation should be held.”