The superstar refuses to endorse any label except for one regional cola brand at the start of his career almost four decades ago.
Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 that mysteriously disappeared with 239 people on board nearly a year ago was deliberately taken off course by someone in the cockpit and flown towards Antarctica, experts have claimed.
Flight JT-610, carrying 189 people, was on a scheduled flight from the Indonesian capital to Pangkal Pinang, the main city in the Bangka Belitung Islands.
GoAir hopes to fly 15 million passengers by 2016-17, serve 30 destinations, up from 21 now, and will largely remain a domestic airline.
With passengers flying Indian skies getting more and more unruly, day by day, airlines are forced to stock rope and handcuffs on board and use them as they did the other day on a Dubai-Delhi flight.
The airline has said it isn't worried about competition in the domestic market, thanks to its spread across three passenger segments
The exact figure not known yet but advertisements for recruiting employees would hit print this week.
The government was also working on a package to promote connectivity and airports in the North Eastern states
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No reason was cited for rescheduling of the meeting.
However, Federation of Indian Airlines will continue to function and its other members are not pulling the plug yet, industry sources said.
Tata Sons and Singapore Airlines (SIA), which recently received a no-objection certificate from the ministry of civil aviation to start a full-service airline (Tata-SIA Airlines), are in the process of securing an import licence for 20 Airbus A320 aircraft.
The disappointment of the year is government's failure in finalising the re-drafted aviation policy.
Those who book tickets at discounted fares but later decide to check-in luggage would have to pay a fee.
Jet Airways, part-owned by Abu Dhabi's Etihad, reported its biggest-ever quarterly loss as costs jumped and it took a charge on its investment in a subsidiary.
'A formula can be reached so that everyone gets a fair share.'
SpiceJet had rolled out a scheme offering a discount of Rs 200 to every passenger who books a flight with only one handbag and no check-in baggage.
The national carrier has sought dry-leasing these planes for six years instead of buying them, as part of its Turnaround and Financial Restructuring Plans, airline sources said.
Key events that rocked India Inc in 2014 and one of them is Vishal Sikka taking over reins at Infosys.
The Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB) on Friday deferred a decision on Rs 2,000-crore (Rs 20 billion) Jet-Etihad deal, the largest foreign investment in the Indian aviation sector, and sought clarity on control and ownership.
At present domestic airlines are not allowed to fly on international routes until they have 20 aircraft in fleet and have completed five years of operations.
Domestic airlines witnessed 10 per cent rise in sales in 2014.
IndiGo was set up in 2006 by businessman Rahul Bhatia and Rakesh Gangwal, a former CEO for US Airways Group.
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The proposal of Tatas and Singapore Airlines for a new joint venture, entailing foreign investment of $49 million, is likely to come up before the Foreign Investment Promotion Board for approval on October 18.
Vistara has poor load factors currently, it needs to bring down fares a bit to improve flight occupancy.
Vistara has fine-tuned strategies to tap the elite class and Jet Airways may lose out on market share in times to come.
Singapore Airline along with its Indian JV partner have got clearance from the aviation ministry.
IndiGo which has close to 40 per cent market share, at present has 129 aircraft and operates 883 daily flights to 44 destinations. It also has around 400 aircraft on order.
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Aviation regulators says airlines are free to fix fares.
It offers fares as low as Rs 1,499 for a one-way journey.
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Qatar Airways is keen to buy equity in IndiGo if the Indian carrier offers 49 per cent stake to it, a top official has said as he sought the opening up of the Indian aviation market for established airline companies.
The year gone by saw the high and mighty of the corporate world face the music in the Delhi High Court which held that the telecom majors are amenable to CAG audit and Mukesh Ambani's RIL struggling hard to get rid of an FIR lodged on gas pricing by the 49-day-old AAP regime.
The superstar's much-awaited film Kabali is set to release on July 22.
The HC also offered a ray of hope to the hundreds of employees of UB-Group owned now-grounded Kingfisher Airlines, who have not been paid monthly salaries for over a year now.
Anjuli Bhargava's musings on why the national carrier is well beyond a turnaround.
Singapore Airlines has given new brand names to two carriers it controls - SilkAir (short-haul) and Scoot (low-cost, long-haul.
According to sources, Vistara was looking at commencing operations on Oct 15 to commemorate J R D Tata's flight from Karachi to Mumbai on the same date in 1932.
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