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JET AIRWAYS COMMENCES DAILY NEW DELHI-NEW YORK FLIGHTS: Effective October 28, Jet Airways started plying a daily flight from New Delhi to New York’s John F Kennedy (JFK) International Airport via its hub in Brussels. Jet Airways already operates daily flights on the Mumbai-Brussels-Newark sector.

COCHIN GETS FOURTH DIRECT JET AIRWAYS FLIGHT TO MUMBAI: The country’s largest private airline Jet Airways has introduced its 4th direct flight on the Mumbai – Cochin- Mumbai route. Jet Airways passengers now have the option of four flights a day from Mumbai to Cochin in the morning, afternoon, evening and night.

JET AIRWAYS CREATES MORE LEG SPACE: Now as you fly to destinations either locally or internationally, Jet Airways is promising you a more comfortable flight. The airline will discard one row of seats in the business and economy class to provide more space to its domestic passenger. The decision is likely to see 6 to 12 seats being discarded in each Boeing 737 aircraft as the airline has six seats in each row in the economy class and four seats in each row in the business class. The roll out of the aircraft was expected to be completed in a phased manner by November this year.

BANGLADESH NOW ON JET AIRWAYS NETWORK: The airline is also working on operating direct flights between India with Bangladesh from both Delhi and Kolkata. The launch of the service would make Jet Airways the only Indian private sector airline to operate flights to Bangladesh. China is next on her network.

BOEING-JET AIRWAYS DEAL: The Boeing Company and Jet Airways have finalized an order for 20 gen-next 737-800s. All twenty 737-800s will be equipped with performance-enhancing Blended Winglets, which improve fuel efficiency and reduce CO2 emissions by four percent. Jet Airways currently operates a fleet of 50 classic and next-generation Boeing 737-400/-700/-800/-900 airplanes.

KINGFISHER AIRLINES LINKS THREE KERALA AIRPORTS, DAILY: Kingfisher Airlines has become the first airline to launch domestic services linking all three Kerala airports daily. Cochin International Airport, which is India’s first corporate airport, will be the regional hub of the airline which uses ATR type aircraft with 66 seats to link Thiruvananthapuram, Cochin and Kozhikode. They have also introduced a first regular flight operation connecting Cochin to Mangalore.

KINGFISHER AIRLINKS CHENNAI AND KOLKATA TO PORT BLAIR: Kingfisher Airlines has recently connected Chennai and Kolkata to Port Blair, capital of Andaman and Nicobar Islands with daily flights. The airline also introduced a new flight between Chennai and Kolkata. With these new services, Kingfisher links 34 cities with over 208 flights a day with a fleet of 34 aircraft.

KINGFISHER LAUNCHES LOTS OF NEW FLIGHTS FOR TOURISTS THIS WINTER (FROM 1 & 15 DEC): They have also started their flights Delhi – Varanasi - Khajuraho – Varanasi – Delhi and Agra – Jaipur sectors, which is going to be very useful for tourists. First time any airline has connected Udaipur directly with Aurangabad, avoiding a halt in Mumbai. Besides remote Jaisalmer would be connected with Jodhpur and Jaipur. First time in India they also are starting Agra – Jaipur – Agra flights.

VIJAY MALLYA OF KINGFISHER BUYS STAKE IN EPIC AIRCRAFT: Vijay Mallya, Chairman, Kingfisher Airlines and part owner of Air Deccan has bought a 50 per cent strategic stake in Epic Aircraft of USA. Mallya’s initial focus would be on the US market, which is the largest in the world.

NOW ‘FLYBUYSMS’ FROM KINGFISHER: Kingfisher Airlines announced the launch of ‘Flybuysms’. This service innovation is the result of a strategic alliance with PayMate. With the introduction of Flybuysms, Kingfisher Airlines introduces an SMS-based service which allows customers to ‘search, book and pay’ for tickets start-to-finish on the mobile itself. Being an SMS-based service, it is easy to use and works on any handset model or operator.

AIR INDIGO CONNECTS GOA WITH COCHIN AND HYDERABAD BY DAILY FLIGHTS: As a welcome step, Indigo has started daily flights to reap the benefit of ongoing tourist season. Until now Indian airlines used to have twice a week flights only, which stand withdrawn now.

SPICEJET TO CONNECT MADRAS TO COIMBATORE, PORT BLAIR: Indian domestic budget carrier SpiceJet is launching daily flights from Madras to Coimbatore and Port Blair. The airline will also launch daily flights from Coimbatore to Bombay, Delhi, and Hyderabad. Madras will now be a new base station from next month and two Boeing 737-800 aircraft will be stationed here.

DECCAN TO ADOPT GDS NETWORK: With a view to broadening its distribution network and matching its expanding operations, low cost carrier, Deccan is planning to adopt a GDS network. At present, the airline has over 7,000 ticketing outlets. The airline recently launched m-commerce initiative called ‘m- fly’ empowering its passengers to book, pay and generate an e-ticket on their mobile phones.

AIR-INDIA RESUMES DIRECT THIRUVANANTHAPURAM - KUWAIT FLIGHTS AFTER TWELVE YEARS: Air India resumed direct flights on the Thiruvananthapuram-Kuwait sector from October 29 this year after a gap of almost 12 years. The heavy demand for seats in this sector and the arrival of new aircraft in the fleet has led to the commencement of direct flights again to Kuwait. Air-India will operate flights from Thiruvananthapuram International Airport to Kuwait on Mondays, Thursdays and Saturdays.

AIR-INDIA EXPRESS FLYING HIGH: Air-India Express, a wholly owned subsidiary of Air-India, has inducted a third owned 737-800 aircraft into its fleet. Commencing operations on April 29, 2005 with three leased B737-800 aircraft, the Air India Express fleet today comprises of seven leased and ten owned B737-800 aircraft. Their operations cover the cities of Trivandrum, Kochi, Kozhikode, Mangalore, Madras, Trichy, Amritsar, Nagpur, Calcutta, Bombay and Delhi and offer International flights to Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Sharjah, Al Ain, Muscat, Salalah in UAE and Oman, Bahrain and Doha, as well as to Singapore and Colombo. Earlier on 24th September this year, the airline commenced a tri-weekly direct flight from Nagpur to Dubai, with a similar frequency from Calcutta to Singapore. Plans are also on the anvil to introduce direct flights from Calcutta to Dhaka, Bangkok and Kuala Lumpur. Madras to Kuala Lumpur, Johor Baru, from Lucknow, Jaipur and Ahmedabad direct to Dubai, from Bombay to Male via Kochi and Bombay to Colombo direct.

AIR INDIA COMMENCES FLIGHTS FROM KOZHIKODE - SHARJAH: Air India operated its first leased wide-body A330-200 aircraft on the Kozhikode-Sharjah sector on November 10. The 279-seater aircraft will operate four times a week on Mumbai-Kozhikode-Kochi-Sharjah route, thrice a week on Mumbai-Goa-Kozhikode-Sharjah and twice on return sectors.

SWISS INTERNATIONAL AIRLINES NEW DAILY ZURICH – NEW DELHI SERVICE WEF NOVEMBER 25: With the introduction of the new service, Delhi becomes the second destination in India after Mumbai to have daily flight bringing the total number of flights between India and Switzerland to 14 weekly frequencies. Combined with its partner Lufthansa, customers will now have a choice of 59 weekly departures from India to its three European hubs at Zurich, Frankfurt and Munich.

EMIRATES SPECIAL INTRODUCTORY OFFER: Emirates begins flying non-stop between Dubai and Houston on 03rd December 2007 and has already started operations from Dubai to Toronto on 29th October’07. To celebrate the launch of the new routes, the airline is offering a special return fare in Economy class from Cochin to Toronto. To qualify for the introductory offer, the outbound travelling must commence before 15th February 2008 and tickets purchased before 15 December ’07.

NEW ICE DIGITAL WIDESCREEN ON BOARD EMIRATES AIRLINES: Emirates Airlines has introduced a new movie subtitling and ‘closed caption’ technology to its latest in-flight entertainment system - Ice Digital Widescreen. Emirates’ travelers will now have the option of viewing subtitles in various languages for selected films.
WORLD’S LARGEST JETLINER MAKES DEBUT FLIGHT: The world’s largest jetliner Airbus A380 made aviation history recently, completing its first commercial flight from Singapore to Sydney with 455 passengers, some of them ensconced in luxury suites and double beds, on board Singapore Airlines. The double-decker plane, powered by four Rolls Royce Trent 900 engines took off from Changi Airport without a hitch and landed about seven hours later in Sydney to launch a new era in air travel. A string quartet gave them a farewell in Singapore and a jazz trio welcomed then in Sydney. Flight attendants handed out champagne and certificates to passengers, some of whom paid tens of thousands of dollars in an online auction for the seats, to be part of aviation history.

JAPAN AIRLINE LAUNCHES DAILY TOKYO-DELHI FLIGHTS: Launching their daily operations between the two capital cities on October 28 , JAL is providing their guests with additional comfort in the new award winning Shell Flat seat in C-Class cabin. This launch comes on the heels of the growing economic and trade relationships between the two countries.

ETIHAD AIRWAYS INTRODUCES DAILY COCHIN-ABU DHABI FLIGHT: Following the successful launch of its Cochin and Trivandrum services, Etihad Airways, continues to attract growing numbers of Kerala-based customers. The airline has introduced its direct daily services to Abu Dhabi from Cochin and Trivandrum. In addition to the two Kerala flights increasing to daily in October, Etihad is also looking to start services to other major Indian destinations including Bangalore, Chennai and Hyderabad.

CHINA SOUTHERN AIRLINES CONNECTS DELHI – CANTON: China Southern Airlines has recently commenced direct thrice-weekly flights on Delhi–Canton sector, deploying its Boeing 757 – 200 aircraft on this route. Canton is famous for the bi-annual Canton Trade Fair held there.

AIR ARABIA COMMENCES FLIGHTS TO COIMBATORE: Air Arabia, the Gulf based low-cost airline has launched services to Coimbatore its eighth destination in India. The airline flies to Ahmedabad, Bombay, Jaipur, Cochin, Madras, Nagpur and Thiruvananthapuram from the Gulf with 48 flights per week.

FROM NEW YORK TO MUMBAI ON CONTINENTAL AIRLINES: Continental Airlines recently inaugurated its daily, non-stop service between Mumbai and its New York hub at Newark Liberty International Airport. The flights are being operated by a 285-seat Boeing 777 aircraft, carrying 50 passengers in the Business First cabin and 235 in Economy. The service will initially operate four times a week.

ROYAL JORDANIAN AIRLINES FOCUSES ON INDIAN PILGRIMS: The Royal Jordanian Airline is targeting Christian, Leisure and Muslim pilgrimage from India. The airline facilitates the Indian travellers with Indian meals on board, Indian movies, wide screen and music. The airline is already operating with Airbus-340 and is soon to introduce Boeing-737 which is expected to arrive in 2010.

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