The no-frills brand is poised for a big leap by debuting in some international routes as well.
Most companies see the next few quarters as a period of uncertainty and are trying to shift costs from fixed to variable.
The Air India management has reached an agreement with pilots from the erstwhile Indian Airlines on the contentious issue of pay parity. Fearing another agitation from the Indian Commercial Pilots Association (ICPA), the airline's management has agreed to the union's demands for fixed allowances each month.
The government-owned airline has 63 narrow body planes from Airbus, including the A319 and A321.
Kingfisher Airlines is exploring hiving off its engineering department into a separate maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) unit. This is one of several measures being considered by the airline management to tide over its current financial crisis.
His debt woes may continue and losses double, but the King of Good Times was clearly in a defiant mood at a press meet in a packed venue in a suburban hotel in Mumbai on Tuesday.
BPCL plans to save Rs 500-800 cr, while HPCL eyes 10% reduction in total costs.
RIL, which had over 1,470 retail outlets, is said to be running only 350 of those at present.
The negotiations will be held in Mumbai on Tueday at the International Civil Aviation Negotiations Conference which will be inaugurated by President Pratibha Patil.
It is in talks with a local player for a discovered asset so that it can have a ready cash flow in one or two years.
AI Express operates 195 weekly flights, mostly from Kerala.
Low-cost carriers (LCCs) like Air Asia and Ryan Air are among the best because they are frugal, have flexibility in operations and certain standardisation of aircraft and operations.
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.
Proposed format to have real-life scenarios that mirror the kind of thinking students need at graduate-level work.
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.
The company is in talks with BG India and Italian E&P major, ENI.
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.
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