Lufthansa Technik, a leading aircraft maintenance, repair and overhaul major, is also planning to set up a regional component pool in India to support the existing customers.
The Group operates Lufthansa Airlines, Swiss Air and Austrian Airlines in India and flies across seven destinations -- New Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Chennai, Kolkata, Hyderabad and Pune.
Lufthansa received its first Airbus 380 on Wednesday.
The Rs 3.6-crore (Rs 36-million) payable by Kingfisher in the court would cover the dues for three months -- July, August and September.
Several other European airlines have considered entering the corporate jet market, including KLM, the Dutch subsidiary of Air France-KLM, which has recently investigated the fledgling market for air taxi jet operations with four-seat very light jets. KLM has shelved the project, however, and to date only Lufthansa is pressing ahead with the development of its own fleet.
Lufthansa would increase its total number of flights between India and Germany to 35 from February 18 and add Hyderabad as its fifth destination.
German airline Lufthansa plans to start thrice a week direct flights from Delhi to Munich from next month, a top Munich airport official said on Monday.
The air carrier, which currently operates 47 flights a week, is also planning to tie up with a credit card service provider to integrate the Miles and More programme.
German airlines Lufthansa will after a gap of 35 years resume passenger services between Frankfurt and Kolkata from December 1 this year, with three weekly flights.
The 49 per cent cap that would not give them a majority control over domestic carriers.
'Just look at China: They have five or six major airlines and some smaller ones.'
The German airline withdraws the flights due to lower bookings.
Delhi becomes Asian launch destination for the new "Queen of the Skies" and airline's new Business Class product Bengaluru to follow soon.
The 33-year-old grandson of JD-S supremo H D Deve Gowda is expected to land in Bengaluru in the small hours of May 31.
Lufthansa operates 46 weekly flights in India.
The airline plans to deploy A380 to Mumbai instead.
German carrier Lufthansa would operate two additional flights between Bangalore and Frankfurt in June, as part of the open sky policy announced by the government.
Premier German carrier Lufthansa on Wednesday announced enhancement of its weekly services from Delhi to Munich and Bangalore to Frankfurt, adding six more flights to take the total number of services to 38.
German airliner Lufthansa has no plans to bid for equity in either Air-India or Indian Airlines as a counter to Air France-KLM mega merger, its executive vice-president Thierry Antinori said in New Delhi on Friday.
The Opposition targeted Mann on Monday, alleging that he was deplaned from a Delhi-bound aircraft at the Frankfurt airport as he was drunk, a charge dismissed by the ruling Aam Aadmi Party as baseless.
The Opposition on Monday targeted Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann, alleging that he was deplaned from a Delhi-bound flight at the Frankfurt airport as he was 'drunk', a charge denied by the ruling AAP as baseless.
The growth in India's domestic aviation capacity in calendar year 2023 (CY23) was the sixth highest among 20 major domestic markets, compared to the pre-pandemic year of CY19. The domestic capacity in the country surpassed the pre-pandemic level seen in CY19 and was up 5 per cent in CY23. It trails Mexico, Columbia, China, Vietnam, and Spain, which have shown higher growth, according to data shared in a seminar organised by global travel data provider OAG on global aviation trends in 2023.
Indian customers will have wider travel options as airlines introduce new flights from the end of March. While Malaysian Airlines and Turkish Airlines are resuming passenger flights to India after a gap of two years, Air France-KLM and Lufthansa Group will scale up their existing service in a graded manner in the summer schedule. Emirates, the largest foreign airline operating in India, too, is looking to restore its pre-Covid-19 schedule of 172 flights per week.
West Asian carriers are up against Air India and IndiGo in the battle for seats on lucrative international routes.
Jio has partnered with AeroMobile to launch mobile services on 22 flights on international routes, with plans starting at Rs 499 per day.
Talk to any member of the cabin crew on any Indian airline and you will hear the worst horror stories. Almost always, the targets of abuse in the air are female staff members who are called 'servants' or worse, points out Vir Sanghvi.
Serbia has become one of the transit points for Indians heading to Canada and the US. Canada requires passengers from India to take an RT-PCR test from a third country, while the US wants them to spend 14 days outside of India. As a result, many students are taking the Serbia route to Canada, and the US.
Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport catered to a total of 3,059 passengers.
Indian airlines have also been advised separately to give relief, an official said.
Lufthansa has been Air India's mentor, helping and guiding it complete all formalities for joining the alliance.
Axel Hilgers, Director, South Asia speaks to Business Standard.
The new service by American Airlines will provide connectivity to tech hubs in both the countries.
Wipro Technologies, an information technology and outsourcing company, is poised to acquire the IT arm of a major company in Germany.
'After we landed at Port-of-Spain, we had to take a charter flight to Guyana, but seven of our boys were stopped as they were not vaccinated. We tried to explain to the immigration officials that India had not started their vaccination yet but they instructed us to take the next flight out of the country'. The ICC had organised the Under-19 World Cup with the help of Cricket West Indies. In a challenging time like this, the Caribbean was not the best place to organise a big event like the U-19 WC, felt Indian team manager Lobzang G. Tenzing.
GoAir has temporarily suspended all its international operations -- Dammam, Kuwait, Muscat, Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Bangkok, Phuket and Male -- starting March 17 until April 15.
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