Jet Airways is offering a companion free offer on its Delhi-Bangkok-Delhi and Delhi-Singapore-Delhi sectors for its business class passengers.
The civil aviation ministry has asked airlines not to charge excessive fares from passengers in the wake of agitation by pilots of Jet Airways.Media reports said that following strike by Jet pilots, other airlines were charging an average of Rs 9,000-10,000 for Mumbai-Delhi route, while some are even charging up to Rs 15,000 per seat.
Jet Airways is offering a free international flight return ticket on purchase of its one-fare pass booklet priced at Rs 40,000 and Rs 45,000, plus taxes.
Court order follows submission of govt lawyers that Serious Fraud Investigation Office was probing a case of misappropriation of fund by Jet Airways and Goyal.
The bulk of Indian carriers flying to Dubai are low-cost carriers, which include IndiGo, Air India Express, and SpiceJet.
It would help in saving fuel, reducing CO2 emissions as well as noise levels, according to officials
Resolution professional, Ashish Chhawchharia, had informed the bankruptcy tribunal that two new investors had shown early interest for investing in Jet. One of them is a foreign investor from West Asia and the other is an Indian-entity-backed by a UK investor.
Qatar Airways might infuse $200 million in debt and equity in SpiceJet.
Earlier when Goyal had moved court seeking permission to go abroad, the judge had observed that if he wanted to go abroad, he should first deposit Rs 18,000 crore as guarantee that his company owes to lenders.
In a rare move, the DGCA has filed a police complaint against 34 pilots of Jet Airways, IndiGo, SpiceJet and GoAir.
Jet Airways will launch a direct daily service between Amritsar-London from August 4.
With carriers such as Jet Airways and Kingfisher Airlines all set to battle it out on international routes, leading expatriates with years of experience in global airlines are now being wooed for top management posts.
These slots, under the air bubble pact, will later be extended to operate regular flight services once international flight services resumes.
This meeting came in the backdrop of a controversy raked up by some politicians, including those from Bharatiya Janata Party, Communist Party of India and Trinamool Congress, who objected to the sale of 24 per cent of Jet's equity to Etihad at a cost of Rs 2,058 crore, saying it was not in the national interests.
Taking on competition from no-frill carriers, Jet Airways on Saturday launched a week-long sale of seven lakh low-fare domestic air tickets to attract air travellers who could use them to fly from August 10 onwards.
Yet another private carrier, Indus Airways, will take to the sky this month-end launching services initially to north Indian cities from Delhi and Mumbai with two 50-seater Canadian Regional Jets.
They were supposed to fly by the Jet Airways whose services have been hit by the ongoing strike by its pilots, an Air India spokesman said.
No-frills carrier Go First filing for insolvency proceedings and cancelling flights is bad for the airline industry as the move will reduce capacity and could push airfares in certain routes, travel agents' grouping TAAI said on Wednesday.
A senior first officer with Jet Airways shares her plight.
After being hit by a fuel price hike and capacity cut, it may be happy times again for the airline industry this festive season. While Kingfisher is looking at adding at least 15 new flights in the winter season, competitors Jet Airways, SpiceJet, IndiGo and Paramount are adding over 30 new flights together (arrivals and departures); they will do this through a combination of better utilisation of existing aircraft and inducting new fleet.
The public sector carrier announced a new scheme -- 'Fly Select Fares' -- offering two levels of rates which were below the normal ones on select flights.
All Indian carriers flew 60.22 lakh (6.02 million) passengers in May compared to 57.10 lakh (5.71 million) in April, while the January-May figure stood at 267.22 lakh (Rs 2.67 million) as against 260 lakh (2.6 million) in the same period last year recording a 2.78 per cent growth, latest official air traffic data showed.
The airline informed the ministry that it would operate 75 planes by April-end.
This is the third consecutive profitable quarter for SpiceJet.
Centre is likely to make a decision on allowing foreing airlines to operate out of Kozhikode soon.
Jet Airways has recommenced its night saver flights between New Delhi and Mumbai and New Delhi and Bangalore.
The airline had earlier taken all its stranded passengers in Brussels to the Dutch capital by road.
Jet Airways will launch a new service between Ahmedabad-London from April 3.
Jet Airways will launch a direct daily service between Delhi-Singapore from September 6.
Jet Airways is offering special night fares from Mumbai to Ahmedabad, Hyderabad, Chennai, Delhi and Kolkata.
Jet Airways will launch a new daily service between Mumbai-London from July 10.
Jet Airways will launch a new daily service between Amritsar-London from June 28.
Jet Airways is offering special fares on 5,00,000 seats across various sectors.
'Just look at China: They have five or six major airlines and some smaller ones.'
Indian bankers are fearful that going out of their way to save Jet could lead to subsequent harassment from investigative agencies.
The airline will be running the fight on a daily basis from the Rajasansi International Airport. The flight currently runs thrice a week. The proposed move is expected to provide a relief to perishable exporters and farmers of Punjab who were affected after Jet Airways and Singapore Airlines withdrew their services last year stating it was not feasible for them to continue anymore.
Kingfisher Airlines soared 5.76 per cent to Rs 13.20, while Spicejet scrip gained 4 per cent to Rs 38.30 on the BSE. Jet Airways rose by 2.44 per cent.
Flights from Mumbai and Kerala will also have to transit through these routes due to restrictions
Initiating a fare war on global routes, Qatar Airways and Singaporean budget carrier Tigerair have announced massive limited-period discounts hoping to corner a chunk of the Indian travel market share.
Jet is the only airline offering four weekly flights on the route.
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