'People ask me if I miss living a normal life, since I don't have privacy, and I tell them I don't want to have a normal life. I want people standing outside my house, I want to be loved by them. I have been fortunate enough to live like a star for 25 years and I would like to die as a star.' Shah Rukh Khan, unplugged.
Air-India on Tuesday announced special fares for travel on the domestic sector, much lower than the apex fares announced by the domestic carriers, with immediate effect.\n\n\n\n
Air-India and Indian Airlines will continue to take aircraft through the leasing route till its fleet acquisition comes through and have decided to take nine more planes by December.
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Air-India on Tuesday signed a strategic alliance with German airlines Lufthansa to increase the number of flights between the two countries.
Air-India will appoint an advisor for laying out the roadmap for its initial public offer by this month-end and plans to hit the capital market by December 2005.
Air-India is to link Delhi and Kolkata with Dhaka and London with a Boeing 777 thrice a week from next month.
The government is in the process of structuring a uniform performance-linked incentive scheme for Air India and Indian Airlines employees after the merger of the two airlines.
Boeing Commercial Airplanes on Tuesday offered to replace the aircraft leased by Air-India from South Korea with new generation ones at a 'great price' and said Indian Airlines would save over Rs 700 crore (Rs 7 billion) if it bought planes from it.
Air-India operated 4 of its scheduled international flights from Mumbai while the management sent letters to the Indian Pilots Guild asking it to withdraw all directives about operations to the SARS-affected regions.
The proposed merger of state-owned carriers Air-India and Indian is expected to be completed in the current financial year, Civil Aviation Minister Praful Patel said on Monday.
Air-India on Saturday announced a revised flight schedule from Mumbai for May 4-7, pending restoration of normalcy in flight operations on the withdrawal of directives by the de-recognised Indian Pilots Guild.
With both Boeing and Airbus pitching for the medium capacity long-range aircraft order worth over $1.5 billion, the Air-India board would meet on Saturday to finalise its decision on buying 10 aircraft with options for seven more.
The government's financial restructuring plan for loss-making Air India may include a staggered infusion of equity, entailing an initial infusion of around Rs 1,300 crore (Rs 13 billion), going up to around Rs 2,000 crore (Rs 20 billion), depending on the company's need.
The 'thanksgiving and feedback' programme will also gauze public mood by asking them about the problems they face.
Air India has decided to set up an aircraft maintenance, repair and overhauling facility centre in Thiruvanathapuram, V Thulasidas, CMD, Air India said on Monday.
A Paris-bound Air-India flight with 428 passengers on board on Friday made an emergency landing an hour after it took off from the city's international airport, officials said.
"We badly need the new fleet," Commercial Director of Air India V K Verma said without going into the lingering controversy over the national carrier's recent decision to buy 50 aircraft from Boeing, arch-rival of Airbus.
A newly-formed Europe India Chamber of Commerce has said that "factors other than commercial" have influenced India's decision to buy 50 aircraft
Air India has taken 15 foreign pilots on a one-year contract to tide over the shortage of trained commanders in the country.
Air-India will introduce a second weekly flight on Thursdays effective from December 2 on the Mumbai-Kolkata-Mumbai route, besides the existing flight on Sundays. \n
A witness said the main accused in the hijacking also called for deadly revenge against former prime minister Indira Gandhi.
The passengers were transferred to another Boeing 747 in Mumbai for their onward journey
The government on Thursday said state-owned carrier Air-India would raise funds through loan guaranteed by the US Exim Bank to part-finance its purchase of 68 aircraft costing about $7.2 billion.
Air-India on Tuesday announced cancellation of all its flights out of Chennai till May 4, due to the problems with striking pilots.\n\n
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