My Opinion Blog

Love, peace and inclusion • 6th May 2025

The society and its hypocrisy

The recent online attacks and character assassination of the wife of the killed Navy officer in Pahalgam have sparked a new debate. “Why wasn’t she crying?” “Why is she supporting the Muslims and the Kashmiris?” These questions have surfaced on the internet only because a woman dared to speak up against the wave of society’s hatred.


Women have always been the soft targets for the hypocrisy of society. These are the same people who were empathetic toward this woman, the same people who claimed...

Love, peace and inclusion • 25th April 2025

OPINION—Pahalgham attack

The world we live in and the world we ought to live in are two different sides of the same coin. Why the same coin, you ask? The idea of the world we want to live in is not euphoric; it derives from the same conditions we grew up in. As kids we are unaware of the hatred; the people around us only gave us love, and that’s what we grew up believing in. With the rise in religious hatred and communal violence, I begin to question the rationality of an educated human’s mind. The recent terrorist atta...

Travel Radar - Aviation News • 16th October 2025

AerCap to Manage GE9X Engine Lease Pool for GE Aerospace

AerCap Holdings N.V. has announced its seven-year-long agreement with GE Aerospace.
The company will be providing its lease pool management services for the GE9X engine. This agreement will also extend AerCap’s ongoing lease pool support for GEnx, GE90, CF6 and CF34 engines.
Under this deal, AerCap will provide GE9X shop visit management, lease return coordination and technical services, including lease documentation and administration support.
Tom Slattery, executive Vice President of AerCap En...

Travel Radar - Aviation News • 15th October 2025

TrueNoord orders 20 Embraer E195-E2, purchases rights for more jets

TrueNoord has placed a firm order agreement with Embraer, which includes the purchase of twenty new E195-E2. Alongside this, the agreement also includes the purchase rights for up to twenty new E195-E2 aircraft and up to ten new E175-E1 aircraft.
TrueNoord is a specialist regional aircraft leasing company which provides financing, fleet transition and management solutions in the 5o to 150 seat capacity range to airlines globally.
On the occasion of this agreement, Anne-Bart Tieleman, CEO of True...

Travel Radar - Aviation News • 10th September 2025

Ryanair Announces Winter Route Cuts Across Spain

Ryanair has announced the closure and partial suspension of some of its routes in Spain as winter approaches. This step by this Irish carrier has led to significant job losses and is also set to impact tourism in Spain.Ryanair is closing its two aircraft bases at Santiago de Compostela, which was initially planned to receive an investment of €180 million. The airline has said that these decisions are due to the high airport charges by AENA and stakeholders.
Eddie Wilson, CEO of Ryanair, said, ”...

Travel Radar - Aviation News • 9th September 2025

Virgin Australia Hits a New Milestone, Welcomes the first E190-E2

Marking a major milestone in its fleet evolution, Virgin Australia Group, earlier this week, announced that its first Embraer aircraft, the E190-E2 has landed in Perth. The E190-E2 jet completed a 25,000-kilometre journey from Embraer’s factory in Brazil to Perth.
On its arrival in Perth, the E190-E2 was named Coral Bay and was taxied to Virgin Australia Regional Airlines’ (VARA) new state-of-the-art hangar at Perth Airport, where its maintenance will be carried out. The aircraft will mark a mil...

Travel Radar - Aviation News • 4th September 2025

WestJet places largest-ever aircraft order with Boeing

WestJet has announced its agreement with Boeing for the purchase of 60 737-10 MAX aircraft. In addition to this, the agreement also includes an additional purchase of seven 787-9 Dreamliner aircraft.
This order is set to expand WestJet’s portfolio through 2034; the current order is at 123 aircraft and 40 options.
WestJet Chief Executive Officer, Alexis von Hoensbroech, said, “With the addition of these aircraft, WestJet has the largest order book of any airline in Canada and will double our flee...

Travel Radar - Aviation News • 3rd September 2025

Emirates' customers to relish the flavours of Onam onboard

Emirates customers in all classes will be able to enjoy the flavours of Onam this festive season.
To give the customers a flavour of home, Emirates will serve traditional appetisers for lunch and dinner of sharkara upperi– banana roasted sweet jaggery, kaya varuthathu– crisp banana chips and kondattam mulaku – fried sundried chillies steeped in yoghurt.
In addition to this, customers will also get a chance to revel in various dips, including Kaalan, which is made of coconut, fresh yoghurt and ya...

Travel Radar - Aviation News • 29th June 2025

India denies UN assistance following the 787 crash

On the 25th of June, India rejected the United Nations’ offer to assist in investigating the 787 crash. In addition to this, there have been several criticisms by the safety experts about the delays in the analysis of the black box data.
Air India’s London-bound 787 crashed on 12th June, killing 241 passengers. The aeroplane crashed into a medical college’s hostel, causing destruction. According to Reuters, the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) proposed to provide one of its inves...

Travel Radar - Aviation News • 14th June 2025

Concerns raised over Boeing's Aircraft yet again

On June 12th,  Air India’s Boeing 787, shortly after take-off, crashed into a Medical College’s Hostel. While the cause of the crash is still under investigation, Boeing’s aircraft have been under scrutiny because of their safety issues for almost a year now. There have been multiple cases of engine failure in this aircraft model, although this is the first fatal crash of the 787, claiming 249 lives, with only one survivor.
In 2024, one of the Boeing engineers, Sam Salehpour had raised a safety...