Vistara was operating from Delhi, Mumbai, Ahmedabad and Goa.
The carrier planned to bring in a plane a month from March to build a fleet of at least 10 jets by the end of the year.
Samsung last week suspended sales of its latest flagship smartphone and announced a recall of 2.5 million units already sold, after faulty batteries caused some handsets to explode during charging.
The first A320 flight is scheduled to leave Bengaluru on June 12 afternoon, AirAsia India chief executive officer Mittu Chandilya told reporters in Chennai.
AirAsia's rival airlines in India have kept themselves super-busy in the past few months -- by moving court against the former's launch, adding flights on the routes where AirAsia is operating, and engaging in a price war.
Till high school, his medium of learning was Marathi. Later, he completed his doctorate under Neil Armstrong's guidance. He has travelled to close to 50 countries, sold $350 billion worth of aircraft. Anjuli Bhargava meets Boeing SVP Dinesh Keskar.
The company has charted out a three step process in achieving the target
'Indian aviation sector needs much more investment and new entrants.'
Will build on its existing strengths. Plans to include more fuel-efficient A-320 N and offer better connectivity.
Air Asia is partnering with Tata Sons and little known Arun Bhatia for their India entry.
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.
Newly launched Vistara has a passenger load factor of 55% in the busy Delhi-Mumbai sector, compared with 80-85% in other airlines.
The Dangal actor alleged, in an Instagram video, that a middle-aged man sitting behind her on the flight tried to molest her.
Almost all Indian airlines like SpiceJet, IndiGo, GoAir, Jet Airways and Air India, have been offering discounted fares on domestic sectors almost on a month-to-month basis.
Samridhi Bhardwaj analyses the dynamics of duty-free liquor allowance in India.
Full service product with complementary meal service would be provided on all domestic flights from December 1, with the buy-on-board concept being discontinued, an airline statement said.
National carrier Air India became part of the 27-member global airlines grouping Star Alliance, as budget airline AirAsia India launched operations and Tata-SIA joint venture carrier Vistara received the flying permit and announced its intentions to start operations from January 9.
Under the plan, there will be 151 private trains covering 109 routes which may entail investments worth Rs 30,000 crore.
Bookings are already open, trial flights are being conducted.
At least 15 variations were being evaluated regarding the '5/20 rule'.
The first set of routes that it will launch internationally will be the routes that can be flown by its existing aircraft, the A320s, which will be routes within three, three-and-a-half hours of India
GoAir hopes to fly 15 million passengers by 2016-17, serve 30 destinations, up from 21 now, and will largely remain a domestic airline.
Ajit Mishra, vice president, Research, Religare Broking, answers your queries:
Combining affordable IT with native Indian ingenuity and entrepreneurship F C Kohli believed would enable Indian small businesses match anyone and thrive.
More than the Uddhav Thackeray-led ministry, two coordination committees will approve and disapprove big projects, contracts and political decisions.
Once again, there seems to be an airfare war in India.
Fernandes said south India was a fantastic market and it would be the gateway for people who want to visit southeast Asia and beyond.
Data shows of the 385 companies, which had announced their latest shareholding, fund houses cut their stake in about 200.
Civil society may be better off lobbying for faster liberalisation than another cumbersome institution.
The DGCA official who wrongly assigned the code of Antonov AN-32 -- an aircraft used by the IAF -- to the SpiceJet aircraft has been suspended, report Arindam Majumder and Aneesh Phadnis.
Airbus recently bagged large orders from Indian airlines such as Indigo and Go Air.
Pawan Ruia has finally done it, a beaming Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, then West Bengal chief minister, had said at the reopening of the 70-year-old Sahagunj factory owned by Dunlop in 2005. But with the Calcutta high court passing a winding-up order in 2013 and the Trinamool Congress-led state government passing a Bill to take over the company in 2016, the once-upon-a-time undisputed leader in the Indian tyre industry looks vastly undone. But that can hardly be a deterrent for Ruia, who has a penchant for making headlines one way or the other.
Vistara needs to launch more aircraft into service.
The losses are primarily because the venture operated only for 18 days in June, with only two flights.
'There were moments when you didn't know if you will get out of there alive.'
Air India's home market share has fallen from 19.8% in January to 18% in July.
JRD even suspected that the airline was deliberately bad-mouthed so that it could be acquired after its value came down
Indigo, the largest player in the domestic aviation space, cannot afford to ignore new entrant Vistara.
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