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.
Singapore Airlines offers Early Bird Fares to the Far East, for a limited period.
Vijay Swaminathan, hailing from Chennai, returned to the city after a brief visit to Singapore and Japan, where SARS has affected several people.
Singapore Airlines on Saturday said it would introduce 14 additional flights to India between December and February and also use larger aircraft on 59 scheduled services.
The government on Monday signed the share purchase agreement with Tata Sons for the sale of national carrier Air India for Rs 18,000 crore. Earlier this month, the government had accepted an offer by Talace Pvt Ltd, a unit of the holding company of the salt-to-software conglomerate, to pay Rs 2,700 crore cash and take over Rs 15,300 crore of the airline's debt. Following that, on October 11 a Letter of Intenet (LoI) was issued to the Tata Group confirming the government's willingness to sell its 100 per cent stake in the airline.
About 350 Boeing 737 Max 8 are currently in service with airlines around the world, with thousands more on order. Boeing insists it has no reason to pull the popular aircraft from the skies.
The airline has also inked a deal to take 12 A320s from Singapore's Tiger Airways on lease.
Air India will train its pilots in Singapore for the Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft, due for delivery from December. The move is sparking a protest from one of its pilots' unions, on promotion issues.
Singapore Airlines intends to operate double daily flights to India once the open sky policy is in place even as it has decided to introduce three additional day-time flights to Mumbai from October 26.
In Dubai, A Ganesh Nadar encountered high speeds on smooth-as-silk-roads, no bureaucracy, gold, Mr Toad's. And snow!
Jetstar Asia on Thursday launched its international no-frills, low-cost and thrice-a-week flights between Kolkata and Singapore.
Taking benefit of the limited open sky policy of the government, Singapore Airlines is mounting additional services to India between December and January, increasing its seat capacity by over 11 per cent.
The ex-president returned to Sri Lanka on a Singapore Airlines flight.
Chief Operating Officer, Sanjiv Kapoor will be leaving the company effective October 31, 2015 after two years with the organisation.
Jet Airways, SpiceJet and Vistara also operated all women crew flights, though on their domestic network.
Malaysia's budget airline AirAsia, which is eyeing more routes to India, China and Singapore, has said the country's aviation sector must be open to competition to ensure passenger growth. \n
Ghosh said the Tata Trusts Cancer Care Initiative is one of the largest health care programmes in the world
Targeting techies in a lean season, Tourism Malaysia jointly with Singapore Airlines, on Wednesday announced holiday packages to Malaysia, aimed at showcasing destinations beyond the capital Kuala Lumpur, from Bangalore.
No-frill Gulf carrier Air Arabia on Monday special holiday fares from India to Egypt, Greece, Turkey and Jordan for the up coming holiday season to attract woo domestic travellers.
"At present, our credit card base is 7.5 million," he said. Sachin Khandelwal, senior general manager for retail assets, however, declined to comment on specific details, such as the magnitude of the reduction in the bank's credit card business over the past year. The country's second-largest lender, which spearheaded the growth of retail finance in the country, has also been going slow on retail loans for the past few years.
Singapore Airlines Limited is planning to start a new service to Bangalore in April next, besides capacity augmentation of its flights to Mumbai, Delhi and Kolkata.
Currently, Vistara has more than 22 planes and operates around 850 flights every week.
Singapore Airlines is offering special economy class return fares from Delhi to over 12 destinations in the US, Australia and China.
IndiGo, Jet, SpiceJet and GoAir demand level playing field in aviation policy, say government can't favour only two new airlines.
J R D Tata and Air India... Mrigank Warrier explores one of India's eternal love stories.
India witnessed the highest increase in airfares among the 10 top aviation markets in the Asia-Pacific and West Asia collectively across both domestic and international flights Q4 2019 and Q4 2022 in nominal terms, according to research by Hong Kong-based Airports Council International (ACI). India, where fares went up by 41 per cent, was followed by the UAE (34 per cent), Singapore (30 (per cent) and Australia (23 per cent). The study, which was undertaken in collaboration with Flare Aviation Consulting, examined around 36,000 routes in the top 10 aviation markets in Asia-Pacific and West Asia.
Reduction in fuel price was supposed to bring back good luck for Indian airlines. But with the global spread of coronavirus, airlines are being forced to rejig their network, cut flights, and delay launches.
Bookings are already open, trial flights are being conducted.
Air-India has temporarily suspended its flights from Delhi and Hyderabad to Singapore with effect from Monday due to SARS and the Indian Pilots Guild's decision not to operate flights to Singapore.
A Myanmarese woman who delivered a baby boy during a flight from Singapore to Yangon has payed tribute to the crew by naming him after the Singaporean budget airline.
Singapore Airlines on Thursday announced attractive return fares on economy class to over a dozen destinations in the US, Australia and China from New Delhi.
Salt-to-software conglomerate Tata group was among "multiple" entities who on Monday put in preliminary bids for buying the government's stake in loss-making carrier Air India.
With both the Indian and Chinese governments agreeing to a full fifth freedom last month, the doors have opened for Indian carriers to tap the lucrative United States west coast market through the Middle Kingdom as well as tap China's growing tourism market. This will give Indian carriers the ballast to challenge established foreign carriers like Singapore Airlines and Cathay, which have picked most of the India-US traffic.
Vistara starts flying in India.
After more than two decades and three attempts, the government has finally sold its flagship national carrier Air India, and it is deja vu for Maharaja as it returned home to its founding father the Tata group. Jehangir Ratanji Dadabhoy (JRD) Tata founded the airline in 1932 and named it Tata Airlines. In 1946, the aviation division of Tata Sons was listed as Air India, and in 1948, the Air India International was launched with flights to Europe. The international service was among the first public-private partnerships in India, with the government holding 49 per cent, the Tatas keeping 25 per cent and the public owning the rest. In 1953, Air India was nationalised and for the next over four decades it remained the prized possession for India controlling the majority of the domestic airspace.
Even a rump Air India could not hope to get away with the shoddy service and scrappy fare for which I paid nearly two lakh, complains Sunanda K Datta-Ray.
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