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.
Reliance Communications has launched a seven-inch tablet at Rs 13,000 per piece and Bharti Airtel's Beetel at Rs 8,000 a piece.
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.
Companies say the viability of 13,000 megawatts worth of projects, which have fixed power sale tariffs, hinge on the government decision.
Delay in approvals and bureaucratic stonewalling create hurdles; experts fear return of licence raj.
The court asked Idea to transfer all the licences of Spice back to DoT.
In a move to expand volumes in the third-generation (3G) technology data business, incumbent telecom operators, including Bharti Airtel, are coming up with various marketing plans to get better paying customers.
Deccan 360 is not taking orders, as it claims it is re-aligning its services.
It recently began toll collection on the Hosur-Krishnagiri highway connecting Bangalore to Chennai, where the lanes have to be expanded from four to six.
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.
India is a major driver for our global growth. And, we expect the country to play a larger role in our global operations in the future.
The company hopes to raise around Rs 300 crore (Rs 3 billion) through this route, in addition to Rs 200 crore (Rs 2 billion) it plans to raise through a rights issue.
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.
Cricket seems to be the flavour of this season. So much so that when cricket buffs are not watching this sport on TV, they are playing it - on their mobile phones.
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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