Aviation Ministry and DGCA (Directorate General of Civil Aviation) have banned misleading fare ads by airlines for they amount to miscarriage of customer care and business ethics. The Civil Aviation Minister, Praful Patel asked airlines that when they will not sell a ticket for Rs 99, with ...

DBA Airline of Germany has decided to stop its flight services by the end of November 2008. DBA was established by British Airways under the name of Deutsche BA in 1992 to compete Lufthansa airline of Germany. But because of its low business, it was sold to a businessman named Hans Rudolf Woehrl. ...

Eying the national capital as a prospective business gateway Malaysia Airlines has started its new flight service on the Delhi-Kuala Lumpur route. The announcement of the new flight service by Malaysian airline has increased the number of fights from Delhi to Malaysia to 10. Including New Delhi a ...

The on-going global financial crisis has led the Sterling Airlines of Denmark to file for bankruptcy. In a statement issued to media the Danish low-cost airline said the various factors have forced the carrier to take such a decision. Besides the stagnation in the market due to financial breakdown, ...

Malaysia based airline Air Asia will launch its low-fare Indian service in December this year. According to press reports, the fares will be in the range of $100-$150 (Rs 4,700 -Rs 9,000). Its services will be available on the route of Trichnapalli, Thiruvananthapuram, Madurai, Coimbatore, ...

Air India has started its new daily flight service from Bangalore to Dubai on October 26, 2008. According to the officials of Air India, the flight service will be available in Panaji for five days and in Pune for two days a week. The Dubai board fight will go via Panaji and Pune. Air India will ...

Delhi-based low cost carrier SpiceJet has appointed Sanjay Aggarwal as its new chief executive officer after about three months of its operation with out any CEO. The former CEO of SpiceJet, Siddhanth Sharma resigned from the airline on July 12, 2008 owing to the sick financial condition of ...

The Monopolies and Restrictive Trade Practices Commission (MRTPC) has ordered its investigating arm, Director-General of Investigation and Registration (DGIR) to investigate the high profile alliance of Jet Airways and Kingfisher Airlines. Both the private airline companies had signed a code ...

State-owned Air India will enter into joint venture with European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company (EADS) to set up an aircraft maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) centre in Delhi. EADS is an Airbus company while Air India is owned by National Aviation Company of India Ltd (Nacil). ...

The Government of India has decided to invest Rs10-15 billion ($375 million) in public sector airline, Air India. This announcement was made by Minister for Civil Aviation Praful Patel in a media conference at India Aviation 2008, Hyderabad on October 15, 2008.  Talking to media Praful Patel ...

Vijay Mallya owned Kingfisher Airlines has joined hands with Jet Airways for sharing each others network and resources. The two private airline majors have inked a pact for common fuel management, ground handling, network rationalization and cross-crew use. There will be cross sales and ...

Nashik is all set to get a new flight service from Mumbai as Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL) has given approval to the Maharashtra government's proposal to link Nashik with Maharashtra. The flight operated by Kingfisher Airlines is supposed to take-off on October 25, 2008. The ATR aircraft is ...

EgyptAir has decided to introduce one more one more direct flight from Mumbai to Cairo from October 27, 2008. This step is taken to meet the increasing demand of the travel agents and passengers. With the introduction of this flight, the number of Mumbai to Cairo flights will increase to four. The ...

Going against wave Air India will not increase its fares in the festive month of October. The decision from Air India has come at a time when other private airlines, e.g. Jet Airways and Kingfisher Airlines, have decided to increase their fares by 10% and 5% respectively.
 
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India's honeymoon with 'low air fares' seems to be coming to an end. Proving the veracity of the statement, Private air carrier Kingfisher Airlines has announced its plans of revising the basic fares from October 1. As per the spokesperson of Kingfisher Airlines, the special off-peak fares that ...

Despite reduced ATF (Aviation Turbine Fuel) prices, to meet out increasing losses airlines are expectedly going to increase air fare soon. Admittedly, this air fare hike is seventh air fare hike in this year. Initiating the air fare hike, Jet Airways CEO Wolfgang Prock-Schaeur said that there would ...

An online travel magazine The Smart Travel Asia, in a recently concluded survey titled 'Best in Travel Poll' on the Low Cost Carriers (LCCs), has listed New Delhi-based SpiceJet as one of top ten budget airlines in Asia. The results were declared on the basis of findings of the survey between May ...

Booking air tickets for leisure and business tours is now just a click away for Finnair passengers. The flagship carrier of Finland has recently facilitated online booking for its customers. Tickets for special events and tours can be easily booked through its official website. This enables the ...

The Emirates Airline on September 18, 2008, introduced a special reduced seasonal fare for subsequent weeks and Delhi is one of the destinations where it is being offered. A statement issued by the Emirates informed that New York, London, Paris and Manila are the other destinations where this ...

TCS has entered into a joint venture with Swedish company SAAB (Svenska Aeroplan AB) for the development of Aeronautical Design and Development Center (ADDC) in the country. A report published on TCS behalf says that the partnership is meant to deal the global aeronautical market. SAAB earlier was ...

To cash festive season air traveling Airlines are likely to hike airfare during Durga Puja and Diwali. However, according to reports, there would not be a hike more than 5%, and that too would be in specific routes. Reportedly, there would be increase of fare both in full fare and budget ...

India's key private carrier Jet airways has announced that from September 15 it is going to introduce daily flights connecting Oman's capital Muscat and Thiruvananthapuram in Kerala. A statement issued in this regard highlighted that this new Muscat-Thiruvananthapuram daily flight will complement ...

Kingfisher flying first time outside India launched its direct flight to London from Bangalore. India's Civil Aviation Minister Praful Patel flagged off the flight and boarded the aircraft. He was accompanied by the Kingfisher CEO Vijay Mallya and other dignitaries in the ...

Kingfisher Airlines, which is India's top private carrier, is going to introduce direct flight between Bangalore and San Francisco from November 1 onwards. This news was made public by the chief executive of the airlines, Dr Vijay Mallya himself on Tuesday, September 2.
 
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State run oil companies considering fall in prices of jet fuel in international market have slashed down ATF (Aviation Turbine Fuel) prices by 16%. An official from the Indian Oil Corporation said that they have always believed in passing on the benefit to consumers. He further informed that there ...

In second branding exercise, Air Deccan after merger with Kingfisher has changed its name to Kingfisher Red. Also, the release reveals that from Friday onwards Deccan would operate under the flight code IT instead of the current DN. This Low-Cost Carrier (LCC) however, would be a separate brand ...

To enhance the in-flight entertainment options and also rev up revenues, the Air Canada is planning to introduce internet services for its passengers just like the American Airlines. There is a possibility that Canada's biggest private airline WestJet may also follow suit.
 
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India's leading software exporter Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has won a five-year contract from Singapore Airlines Cargo (SIA). SIA Cargo, factually, is fourth largest cargo airlines in the world in terms of weight carrying.  However, the size of the deal has not been disclosed. ...

The Jet Airways may be keen on curtailing its India plan, but elsewhere in Europe the Naresh Goyal-owned carrier is reportedly searching for a second hub after Brussels. Sources informs that it will be probably in a central European country like Italy, Switzerland or Germany where Jet is ...

India's biggest private airline Jet Airways is planning to merge JetLite, a fully owned subsidiary, in its fold this financial year. Naresh Goyal, the promoter of Jet, is contemplating the merger to break even by the conclusion of the present calendar year. It was in 2007 that Jet Airways had ...