The Best Airline Cabin Crew awards celebrate outstanding overall excellence among inflight teams, recognising both technical proficiency, like efficiency, precision and service execution, as well as the human touch, including enthusiasm, attitude, warmth and genuine hospitality, according to SkyTrax.
Days after its Delhi-bound aircraft returned to Chicago due to unserviceable lavatories, Air India on Monday said its probe found that polythene bags, rags, and clothes had been flushed down and were stuck in the plumbing.
The 2010-11 Finance Bill, tabled in Parliament, proposed to expand the scope of air transport services 'to include domestic journeys and international journeys in any class' for a 10 per cent service tax.
Singapore Airlines has given new brand names to two carriers it controls - SilkAir (short-haul) and Scoot (low-cost, long-haul.
UAE's international airline, Emirates on Monday announced an increase in its services to Kerala from February next with daily flights to Cochin and eight flights a week to Thiruvananthapuram.
Air travel is likely to become costlier from October 14 with all major domestic airlines planning a hike of 10 per cent in line with the spurt in oil prices.
Gulf carrier Emirates on Wednesday announced special fares for honeymooners from India, offering an up to 20 per cent discount on both business and economy class travel, to select destinations, including London and Paris.
The reduced fare offer is also available for travel on partner airline Etihad Airways flights
Etihad is the fourth airline to operate the super jumbo aircraft to India.
The airline also plans to introduce a third daily direct flight from Mumbai to Bangkok during the winter schedule.
Emirates has been voted as the world's best airline in 2016 by travellers around the world.
The disappointment of the year is government's failure in finalising the re-drafted aviation policy.
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