One of the leading private airline companies, Kingfisher Airlines will start its daily international flight service from Mumbai to London from today. While interacting with the media, a Kingfisher spokesperson stated that Kingfisher will operate its first flight from Mumbai to London from Monday ...

Air New Zealand has achieved a major milestone on Tuesday (December 30) by successfully conducting the first biofuel powered commercial aviation test flight. The airline company used a 50-50 blend of biofuel derived from African jatropha plant and Jet A1 aviation fuel to power one of the jumbo ...

After Jet Airways, state-owned airline Air India has also reduced its fares on domestic routes. Air Indian has announced fare cut up to 82 percent in at least 20 sectors, mostly on metro routes. The revised air fare was made effective from Tuesday (December 30). While talking to the media, Air ...

The two most prominent airlines of India, Jet Airways and Air India have decided to slash their air fares. Leading private air carrier, Jet Airways has announced to cut the fares on its domestic routes by up to 40 percent while state-owned Air India is likely to come with its revised air fares ...

Much to the delight of the tarvellers, the Aviation Minister of India Praful Patel announced that all the domestic airliners including the national carrier will reduce the air fares from January 2009. Owing to a rise in the prices of aviation turbine fuel, all the airlines companies had hiked the ...

The civil aviation ministry has moved a draft Cabinet note proposing a bailout package worth Rs 2,500 crore for National Aviation Company of India (NACIL), which runs Air India. The final package is likely to be put in place by January 2009 after views of all ministries concerned are taken into ...

Kingfisher Airlines and Jet Airways are likely to go for further reduction in air fare by January next year. Last month, both the companies had reduced the fuel surcharge by Rs 550 per ticket. As per the industry source, both Jet and Kingfisher will cut basic fares by Rs 600 per ticket in January. ...

The leading carrier of India, Jet Airways has inked a cooperation agreement with the United Arab Emirates' (UAE's) state carrier Emirates to expand connectivity. Under the new agreement, Emirates will unilaterally code share on Jet Airways' daily flights from Mumbai and New Delhi to Dubai. The tie ...

Domestic air traffic has fallen by 21% in November this year compared to the corresponding month last year due to high air fare and global economic slowdown. In November 2008 Airlines carried 3.04 mn passengers as against 3.87 mn in the same period last year.
 
However, no-frills ...

The city of Hyderabad got direct flights to London from the British Airways on December 7. The leading airline of Europe flew the inaugural flight from London's Heathrow airport which landed at the Rajiv Gandhi International Airport (RGIA), Shamshabad near Hyderabad at 4.40 am. The inaugural flight ...

Leading airline of Germany, Lufthansa AG has entered into an agreement to acquire 41.65 percent of Austrian Airlines from Austria’s state holding OeIAG. Lufthansa will buy the stakes of Austrian Airlines for the token price of 366,000 euros ($465,000), informed official source. Meanwhile, ...

India's leading private airline, Kingfisher Airlines announced to reduce the fuel surcharge by up to Rs 400 for its low-cost and full service carriers. After the implementation of the recent move, the fuel surcharge for Kingfisher Red flights will come down to Rs 1,950 from Rs 2,250 on sectors less ...

One of the leading private carriers of India, Kingfisher Airlines has received the government's approval to operate flights on nine international routes. Under the approved proposal, the airline will operate Mumbai-London, Kolkata-Dhaka, Kolkata-Chittagong, Mumbai-Hong Kong, Mumbai-Singapore, ...

Leading carrier of UK, British Airways has announced to hold merger talks with Australian carrier Qantas Airways Ltd.  The new step is taken by British Airways to expand its service through out the globe. Apart from it, the UK carrier has agreed to enter into merger with Iberia. According to ...

Leading carrier of India, Air India has announced reduction in air fares by Rs 400 per ticket. The airline has brought this cut in fare by reducing the fuel surcharge. Earlier, media reports had claimed that the carrier would go for reduction in fuel surcharge on the domestic routes. Commenting on ...

Low-cost carrier IndiGo Airlines has announced to launch new flight services from six cities of Ahmedabad, Mumbai, Delhi, Hyderabad, Chennai and Jaipur. Talking to media, the president of IndiGo Airlines, Aditya Ghosh informed that the airline will have 121 daily flights connecting 17 destinations ...

Air India has decided to resume its operations in Himachal Pradesh from Wednesday (December 3), officials informed on Monday. Air India’s station manager at Bhuntar, Satish Kumar Sharma told a news agency that the authorities have decided to resume the lone flight between Delhi and Bhuntar ...

The Mumbai terror attacks are likely to affect each and every sector of the country including the aviation industry. The violence took place when the carriers were expecting to earn huge profit in the forthcoming Christmas holiday season in December. The airlines are expected to operate with utmost ...

One of the major carriers of Germany, Lufthansa airlines has canceled its two flights to Mumbai after the terrorists' attacks. The carrier however assured that that it will resume its services on Friday (November 28). According to source, the recent step was taken by Lufthansa in consideration of ...

Here is a good news for people who travel on flights. The leading carriers of the country, Air India and Kingfisher have lowered the airfares by Rs 350-500 on each ticket in the domestic routes. Apart from fare cut on domestic services, the carriers have also reduced fares of international flights ...

In a bid to maintain the air traffic growth rate, Air India has started working on slashing the fares. Though no confirmation has been made on the issue yet, media reports suggest that the cut in Air India's fares on the domestic sector could range between 10 and 12 percent. Steps could also be ...

Aiming to capture the rising demand of air travel in the country, Vietnam on Tuesday (November 25) launched its first privately-owned flight “Indochina Airlines”.  The Airlines will operate four daily flights between the southern commercial center of Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi.
It ...

Gurgaon-based private airline, IndiGo Airlines has introduced new non-stop daily flights from Ahmedabad to five other cities - New Delhi, Mumbai, Jaipur, Hyderabad and Chennai. Talking to media, the president of IndiGo Airlines, Aditya Ghosh informed that with the operation of new services, the ...

The tourism industry of Himachal Pradesh is likely to hit badly as Air India has decided to suspend its operations in Himachal Pradesh from Saturday (November 22). The officials of the state-owned carrier informed the media on Thursday (November 20) that Air India authorities have decided to ...

Air India, with four dedicated freighters, plans to launch its domestic cargo operations from Nagpur starting December 2008. These aircrafts are expected to join the fleet shortly along with one Airbus A310-200 configured freighter next month.
As reported in various media, Air India had planned to ...

Saudi Airlines has decided to start the fight services of 19 carriers between Karnataka and Jeddah in Saudi Arabia till December 29, this year. According to airlines official, this step has been taken to fly Haj pilgrims from Karnataka and other southern states to Saudi Arabia. The first batch of ...

Vijay Mallya, chairman of the Kingfisher Airlines has sought permission from the Centre to sell a part of its equity to international carriers. He Said that a change of policy on foreign investment will lend a hand to the Indian aviation industry that is going through an extremely difficult ...

Deccan Aviation’s Chairman Captain GR Gopinath has announced that his firm soon will start Sky Limo service in Mumbai. The Deccan Aviation launched the service in Bangalore on July 2008. In Bangalore, the helicopter service operates between Bangalore international airport and selected centers ...

Air India has announced an introductory offer of Rs 5000 for one-way in the Delhi-Kolkata route. According to company sources, the basic fare has been kept at Rs 1,675. After addition of Rs 3,325 as surcharge and taxes the total fare would be Rs 5000.
 
Evidently, the introductory offer ...

India's leading private airline company, Kingfisher Airlines has come up with its new in-flight entertainment programme 'Little Wings' for kids. Under its new entertainment progammme, the carrier will offer Disney magazines and special Disney gifts to the kids up to the age of 14 years. Kingfisher ...