Air Deccan will introduce a daily flight between Pune and Bangalore from August 1.
Deccan Aviation, operator of low cost carrier Air Deccan, posted a net profit of Rs 9.64 crore (Rs 96.4 million) for its second quarter ended December 31, 2006.
Beginning March 1, Air Beginning March 1, Air Deccan will introduce an additional flight between Chennai and Mumbai.\n
Air Deccan has announced two daily flights between Kolkata and Bhubaneshwar.
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Launching a new concept in the Indian aviation scene, Air Deccan on Monday announced a strategic tie-up with Hindustan Petroleum to sell tickets of the 'no frills' airline at HP retail outlets across the country.
Air Deccan will begin daily flights between Jammu and the national capital from Wednesday with an inaugural one-way fare of Rs 1,499 till March 8.
The Rs 2,058 crore (Rs 20.58 billion) deal between Jet Airways and Etihad Airways will benefit passengers, as increased competition will bring down air fares, aviation sector experts said.
The 10-member jury was headed by filmmaker Vipul Shah. The awards were announced by jury member Dharam Gulati.
Kingfisher Airlines' conciliation meeting with Air India recently ended without any result.
'Corruption is the biggest problem confronting us. We need to bring about an urgent change in our way of life and also in the political scenario,' says Captain Gopinath, founder of India's first low-cost airline Air Deccan who recently joined the Aam Aadmi Party, in our ongoing series celebrating the India we love.
A survey of CEOs shows corporate India is unsure about the party's ideology, with some feeling its left-of-the-centre politics can be detrimental in the long run.
Getting more people to fly with you seems to extract a high cost, as pioneer Gopinath learnt and full service carriers rediscover.
We live in hope that India and its airlines might finally grow up, notes Anuli Bhargava.
Faced with falling market share, full service airlines are slashing ticket costs to compete with low-cost carriers.
Boeing 737 MAX planes were globally grounded in March 2019, after two of these crashed within five months, raising safety concerns.
'Our focus is not going to be metro to metro routes.' 'We will begin by focusing on metro to non-metro (routes).' 'Metro to tier-2 cities or tier-3 cities is where there is a lot of space for affordable, efficient carriers.'
Hyderabad-based Turbo Megha Airways takes off, promising affordable fares and other benefits.
Their success formula was to enter the business at the right time and exit at the opportune moment.
Kingfisher's departure from the Low Cost Carrier (LCC) segment shows that running an LCC is no cakewalk, requiring a whole new management philosophy.
VRL investors have punished the stock for his move, but Sankeshwar is defiant.
SpiceJet, IndiGo, Jet Airways, Alliance Air, and Turbo Aviation are among the operators that have bagged the routes in the third round.
After some initial take off turbulence, Gopinath is now actively steering the air cargo business steadily with equity infusion from Reliance Industries.
Second deal in 4 months after tie-up with RIL for cargo airlines.
A new generation is being groomed to take over some of the top companies in India. They are savvy, well-educated, and their induction reflects the new complexities of business.
Agra, Shimla, Nanded, Kanpur and Jamshedpur are among the many airports that would see connectivity under Udan.
Vistara has entered a country that has been sobered down to reality.
Kingfisher Airlines will operate international flights between Bangalore and San Francisco, Bangalore-New York and Mumbai-London flights from August this year.
Low-cost carrier Simplify Deccan will be rebranded Kingfisher Red, a separate brand identity from Vijay Mallya-promoted full-service carrier Kingfisher Airlines.
After rationalising flights and routes, major domestic airlines like Kingfisher, Jet Airways and SpiceJet are introducing sharp cutbacks in staff and salaries to cope with slower passenger growth and rising aviation turbine fuel costs. Manpower typically accounts for 10-15 per cent of an airline's total costs.
Six years after running down the low-cost model, Jet and Kingfisher are betting on the same business model for survival.
Two years after selling his budget carrier, Air Deccan to Vijay Mallya-owned Kingfisher Airlines, its former chairman Captain G R Gopinath, still harbours a dream to return to the low-cost airline segment, which he pioneered in the country.
For the first time in the history of Kannada cinema, the music of Kannada film, Meghave Meghave, was launched in the skies, thus finding a place in the Limca Book of World records.
The company plans to offer end-to-end logistics solutions where it has custodial charge of the cargo. Till the back-end warehouse infrastructure is ready at the airline's national hub in Nagpur, Gopinath's freighters will fly the Dubai-Mumbai-Delhi-Hong Kong route, offering dedicated cargo space to freight forwarders and serve anyone who wants to move international freight to these cities for time-definite delivery.
Deccan is planning to travel international routes from August from three destinations in India.
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