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A day after Qantas sought to expand its presence in India by code-sharing with Jet Airways, the Singapore-based Jetstar Asia, a regional extension of Qantas, said it is also considering an alliance with the Indian carrier.
Jet Airways on Monday became the country's first airline to introduce Internet check-in facility for its passengers.
With bilateral air traffic talks slated in the first quarter of next year, Qatar Airways is looking at new destinations in India and increasing frequencies to the five cities it already operates from.
A Delhi-bound Jet Airways aircraft carrying 139 persons skidded off a runway just before its take off from the Bangladesh capital on Monday, but no one was hurt in the accident.
This is the third time that the carrier is trimming its workforce. In 2007, the carrier cut staff by1,200 after it took over Air Sahara. In August this year, JetLite offered over 700 employees a voluntary separation scheme. This is the first time that the axe is falling on Jet Airways employees directly.
Airline posted a consolidated loss of Rs. 128 crore in the first quarter of 2011-12.
Crisis-hit Go First has sought various interim directions from the National Company Law Tribunal, including restraining lessors from taking back aircraft and regulator DGCA from taking any adverse action against the airline. The Wadia group-owned airline, which has liabilities worth Rs 11,463 crore, has sought voluntary insolvency resolution proceedings and the plea is set to be heard by the Delhi bench of the NCLT on Thursday. Go First has cancelled all its flights for three days starting from May 3.
The airline said it intends to run a full schedule at Gatwick on Monday and to operate a full long-haul schedule and a "high proportion" of its short-haul programme at Heathrow.
Jet Airways, India's largest airline in terms of marketshare, is looking at an equity dilution, said Founder and Chairman Naresh Goyal.
British Airways became the first global carrier to provide a direct connectivity between London and Bangalore when is first flight touched down at the IT city this morning. \n
Today, Paramount is the market leader in the South with a 27 per cent share.
Three Sikh musicians, removed from a flight at the Sacramento airport in California about a year ago, have received an apology and an undisclosed amount from the US Airways under a settlement with the airlines. Sikh organizations had termed the incident as of racial profiling and discrimination.
The Jet deal would be the first foreign investment into India's aviation market.
The airline has been defaulting on salaries for some time, making partial payments in some cases or not paying at all, as it continues to lose money mainly in domestic routes where it can't raise fares facing competition from low-cost airlines.
Malaysia's low cost carrier Air Asia and Singapore-based Tiger Airways have been locked in a war of words, with heads of both the companies taking digs at each other in public over alleged racist remarks by the Malaysian carrier's ethnic Indian chief.
Jet Airways plans to connect European cities through its partnership with Thalys rail network. Since last week the airline has been offering connectivity to Paris via Brussels on Thalys train network.
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.
Cites high valuations as reason for exit.
Easing competitive pressure, rising ticket prices offer respite from high fuel costs and effects of weak rupee.
The Jet plane was on the taxiway when the follow-me-up vehicle saw a fire in the left engine of the aircraft.The pilot was told to hold and shut the engine, they said.
UK flag carrier British Airways plans to tie up with an Indian domestic carrier in a franchise partnership.
A day after budget carrier SpiceJet announced fares starting at Rs 499 across its domestic network, Jet Airways too jumped on the bandwagon rolling out Rs 500 fares for the economy class on its domestic flights for a limited period.
Kuwait's new national airline, Jazeera Airways, will start direct flights to New Delhi and Mumbai from July 1.
The proposed $400 million rights issue of Naresh Goyal-promoted private airline Jet Airways will hit the capital market by mid-October.
Even as the cloud of uncertainty hangs over Jet Airways' Executive Director Saroj Datta's future in the airline, the company announced on Tuesday the resignation of its Senior Vice-President N Hariharan and Vice-President (flight operations) Ritzerwan Bin Rashid. Rashid's resignation came into effect on May 15 2008. Rashid has been replaced by Declan Connolly.
Surinder Pratap, whose Twitter handle carried the tweet, was neither detained nor arrested by Jaipur police since it said no case was registered against him in the city.
CCI's ruling came on a complaint filed by Express Industry Council of India.
UAE-based carrier RAK Airways will start services from Ras Al-Khaimah to five Indian destinations, including New Delhi and Mumbai from April this year.
"We are considering operating to Paris, Amsterdam, Rome, some places in Germany and other parts of continental Europe. Shanghai and Beijing are also being looked at. We have applied to the Civil Aviation Ministry for traffic rights (to these destinations). We are hopeful of getting approvals soon", Jet Chairman Naresh Goyal said.
Jet Airways on Thursday blamed a steep fall in the rupee, slowdown in the domestic aviation market and rise in fuel costs for a sharp widening in standalone net loss at Rs 891 crore in the July-September quarter.
Jet Airways on Saturday announced a special offer, which would enable its economy class passengers to upgrade to the business class by paying an additional amount of Rs 500 to 1,200 on the normal economy class fares.
Talk to any member of the cabin crew on any Indian airline and you will hear the worst horror stories. Almost always, the targets of abuse in the air are female staff members who are called 'servants' or worse, points out Vir Sanghvi.
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