Closely competing with Air-India and British Airways in passing the benefits to passengers on flights to the West, Virgin Atlantic said it would add more value to its services on the Delhi-London sector, especially on its premium economy class.
He had reportedly developed severe flu-like symptoms while travelling from London to Orlando.
Stranded in Srinagar for more than a month due to the coronavirus-forced national lockdown, Real Kashmir FC head coach David Robertson and his family will finally return to Scotland on Thursday, ending an anxious wait to attend to his sick mother. Robertson, his wife Kim, son Mason, who plays for the club, and three support staff reached Jammu on Wednesday by an official bus of RKFC which left Srinagar early in the morning. They will fly back home in a British Airways flight from Amritsar on Thursday afternoon.
A section of the main terminal at Denver International Airport was evacuated because of a possible security threat, officials said.
Shah Rukh Khan posted this picture with daughter Suhana on Sunday on Instagram, saying: 'When the lil one goes back to school & is not around to tell u, u use too many filters!'
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Uttar Pradesh Minister Azam Khan, who is accompanying Chief Minister Akhilesh Uadav for a HarvardUniversity event in the US, was detained briefly for questioning at BostonInternational Airport.
A British Airways flight was forced to make an emergency landing at London's Heathrow Airport after one of the engines of the aircraft caught fire, forcing authorities to briefly shut down the airport, Europe's busiest.
There are six lounges at the international terminal in Mumbai; four are run by airlines exclusively for their passengers.
Sri Lanka's Minister of Media and Information, Keheliya Rambukwella on Wednesday blamed the local press for blowing out of proportion the incident involving his son Ramith Rambukwella, who reportedly caused a mid-air panic in an inebriated state while on a British Airways flight.
Sri Lanka Cricket has ordered an inquiry into reports that an unnamed member of the country's 'A' team player misbehaved on a British Airways flight while being drunk.
Bollywood actor Ranbir Kapoor was on Saturday detained and fined about Rs 60,000 on undeclared branded personal goods he was carrying at the Mumbai International airport, a customs official said.
Airlines plying abroad find growing takers for premium economy class, especially on long-haul routes.
The premium economy cabin is getting popular among air travellers from India.
BA parent could order around 20 Airbus A350-1000s.
The first flight to land at the Delhi airport from London on Friday was Air India's AI112 that had 256 passengers in it, said Gauri Agarwal, founder of the Genestrings Diagnostic Center.
British actor Orlando Bloom was sent back from Delhi airport after his e-visa was rejected.
The flame for the London Olympics burned brightly on British soil on Friday after David Beckham stepped off a special flight from the Games birthplace of Greece to light a cauldron with a golden torch.
Ace Indian shuttler Saina Nehwal returned to a rousing reception on Tuesday after winning a historic bronze medal at the Olympic Games in London.
Indian cricket ace Yuvraj Singh, who underwent three cycles of chemotherapy in the United States for a rare germ cell cancer between his lungs, returned to Delhi on Monday to a rousing reception from adoring fans.
Indian cricketer Yuvraj Singh, who underwent three cycles of chemotherapy in United States for a rare germ cell cancer between his lungs, returned to the country on Monday to a rousing reception from adoring fans in New Delhi.
Kingfisher Airlines, owned by Indian liquor baron Vijay Mallya, is in talks with two foreign carriers, including International Airlines Group (IAG) -- the owner of British Airways and Iberia -- for a potential rescue package, a report said.
Low-cost carriers (LCCs) like Air Asia and Ryan Air are among the best because they are frugal, have flexibility in operations and certain standardisation of aircraft and operations.
The flame for the London Olympics burned brightly on British soil on Friday after David Beckham stepped off a special flight from the Games birthplace of Greece to light a cauldron with a golden torch.
Two aborted missions, three different ministers, multiple rule changes and two decades later, Indian taxpayers will no longer have to pay Rs 20 crore per day to keep the loss-making Air India flying. While opposition Congress expectedly attacked the decision as selling the family silver, DIPAM secretary Tuhin Kanta Pandey said what Tata is getting is not a cash cow but an airline which is bleeding where money needs to be pumped in to refurbish obsolete aircraft and dust up strangled ones while being unable to touch any employee for one year and only be able to resize staff after paying a VRS. "It won't be a very easy task there. Only advantage is they (new Air India owner) are paying the price which they think they can manage. "They are not taking the excessive debt accumulated to fund years of losses. We are continuing it as an ongoing concern.... This process has also saved huge amount of taxpayers money going forward," Pandey told PTI.
The flame for this year's London Olympics, scheduled to arrive in Britain on May 18, will land at a military base in Cornwall before starting the torch relay that will end with the Games' opening ceremony on July 27, documents revealed on Wednesday.
Foreign carriers leveraged the sixth freedom rights to grab Indian market share.
Paul Coby, director of information technology at John Lewis, believes the outsourcing model of moving people or the entire IT system to a third-party vendor is no more valid and vendors need to be partners with the customer.
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Known for its flamboyant and trendy image, Virgin Atlantic is a minnow among airlines due to a small fleet and limited network.
A Bangladeshi-origin British Airways software engineer was on Friday jailed for 30 years for plotting to blow up a plane in association with American born Al Qaeda terror leader Anwar al-Awlaki.
In a freewheeling chat with Sneha Kupekar, the Irishman says the company will lobby against any change in the departure tax and believes Emirates must be looking at its new codeshare with Kingfisher with envy.
Over 600 slots at three major airports - Heathrow, Dubai and New York's JFK International - could be at stake.
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.
A formal agreement was signed by liquor baron and Kingfisher chief Vijay Mallya and the top officers of all the 12 'oneworld' partner airlines, after a team of the global alliance visited Delhi and Mumbai, completed a safety audit and set in motion the process through which the Indian carrier would become full-fledged member of the global partnership.
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