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Deccan Aviation, a new entry in the domestic airlines sector, failed to take-off as its stocks experienced brisk profit selling and plunged 34 percent on the first day of trading on Monday.
Air Deccan is recruiting Air Hostesses, Managers -Customer Relations, Executives - Customer Relations, Aircraft Appearance Managers and Aircraft Appearance Executives.
Budget carriers like Air Deccan, SpiceJet, IndiGo and GoAir are making key appointments, especially in the positions of chief finance officer, chief executive officer, while some airline executives are on their way out.
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The departure of several flights from Chennai has been pushed due to the delayed incoming flights from Mumbai.
Low cost carriers have 55 per cent of the market, up from 45 per cent in Q1 last year, and 30 per cent two years back. Does it mean India really is an LCC market? The performance of the airlines also seem to suggest that. While budget carrier Spicejet announced a small profit for Q1, all the big boys in the industry seem to be in trouble.
Air Deccan has opened bookings across select sectors on over 150 flights for 50,000 tickets priced at Rs 999, including taxes.
Even low cost carriers IndiGo, Paramount Airways are now in talks to join the Jet Airways-Kingfisher Airlines alliance to cut costs. After Kingfisher took over Air Deccan, fares have gone up steadily. Other low cost carriers have also hiked fares.
The BCAS had last month issued an order asking airlines to allow passengers to carry up to 100 ml of liquids and gels in a separate bag, while retaining the prohibition of carrying such items in hand baggage.
The incident took place as the pilot of the Delhi-bound Spicejet flight noticed the parked Bangalore-bound Air Deccan aircraft on the same runway, while moving to take-off. Sensing trouble she applied brakes well before the wings of her plane came in contact with that of the other flight, airport sources said.
Air Deccan is offering 2,00,000 tickets priced at Rs 2 each.
Air Deccan is offering for 300,000 tickets priced at Rs 9 each.
Air Deccan has opened bookings across all its ATR sectors for travel between September 1 and October 29, 2006.
Air Deccan is looking for qualified professionals to fill various positions across the country.
Air Deccan will introduce a new service from between Pune-Ahmedabad from November 2.
Air Deccan is offering special monsoon fares for travel in the month of July.
Air Deccan will introduce a new service from between Mumbai-Bhubaneswar from February 1.
Air Deccan will introduce a daily flight between Delhi and Kullu from October 17.
All major airlines in the country are likely to hike the fuel surcharge by Rs 100 with effect from September 5, raising the total surcharge to Rs 750.
Air Deccan will introduce a daily flight between Srinagar and Jammu from August 1.
Air Deccan will introduce a daily flight between Pune and Bangalore from August 1.
Air Deccan has announced two daily flights between Kolkata and Bhubaneshwar.
Beginning March 1, Air Beginning March 1, Air Deccan will introduce an additional flight between Chennai and Mumbai.\n
Air Deccan will begin daily flights between Jammu and the national capital from Wednesday with an inaugural one-way fare of Rs 1,499 till March 8.
In a first by an Indian firm, Deccan Aviation chief Capt GR Gopinath on Friday announced the launch of Deccan Express Logistics, an air cargo and express logistic service on domestic and international routes.
The national carrier's market share has declined from a near-monopoly to 16.6 per cent as of September 2014.
During the checks on the Cessna aircraft registered with Business Jets India, the DGCA found that the pilots in command did not have necessary training certificates.
Discussions have been initiated to sell the company to a Mumbai-headquartered, highly diversified, multi-billion dollar corporate group which has interests in retail and logistics, among various others.
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