Jet Airways is pushing web sales to increase its revenue and cut distribution costs. The airline is selling 100,000 seats at a discount to drive this strategy.
Helicopter operations were shifted to Juhu in January after Mumbai airport authorities banned chopper movements.
ACEU was derecognised after the airline's ground staff and cabin crew went on strike on May 26 last year.
The Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group plans to develop Baramati, about 100 km from Pune, as a hub for private jets, with airports in Mumbai and Pune facing acute shortage of parking bays. Baramati is also the home town of Union agriculture minister and Nationalist Congress Party chief Sharad Pawar.
Deccan 360 is not taking orders, as it claims it is re-aligning its services.
The existing system where all airline passengers, barring VVIPs, have to undergo rigorous frisking, the IATA model proposes different levels of screening for passengers based on the level of risk associated with each one of them.
While the Navi Mumbai airport project has been cleared for take off, two other big-ticket projects in Maharashtra - a cargo hub in Nagpur and an international airport at Rajgurunagar near Pune - are grounded because of delays in land acquisition.
Air India (AI) plans to raise Rs 5,500 crore (Rs 55 billion) by issuing bonds to a consortium led by the country's largest private sector lender, ICICI Bank, as part of its financial restructuring exercise.
The months of April and May are favourable for airlines, a good time to recover their losses.
Kingfisher Airlines has increased the salary of a section of its pilots, fearing an exodus to rival carriers. Airlines including SpiceJet and IndiGo are in an expansion mode and will be adding 29 planes this financial year, opening new job avenues for pilots.
Move will help AI Express reduce costs and increase fleet utilisation.
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