ABOARD THE AIRBUS A380: Loaded with champagne, caviar and excited passengers from around the world, the biggest airliner ever built took off for Australia on Thursday on its first commercial flight. Read the rest of this entry »

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NEW DELHI: In the race of price war, Lalu’s railways seems to have overtaken budget airlines like SpiceJet, GoAir, Air Deccan and IndiGo. Even as fuel price hike forced airlines to increase airfares by 6-10%, competitor reduced rail fares by 5% across the board. For something budget airlines win away A/C rail passengers on certain sectors. Read the rest of this entry »

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Kozhikode, Kerala: Private carrier Jet Airways will start its services from the Karipur international airport here from January 2008, Union Minister of State for External Affairs E Ahamed said on Wednesday. Read the rest of this entry »

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CHENNAI: In pursuance of its strategy to have a pan-India presence by 2010- 11, Chennai-based Paramount Airways is sprucing up its fleet size of Embraer 170 and 175 aircraft from the current five to 45 by 2010. Read the rest of this entry »

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NEW DELHI: India may have been a late entrant on the airline e-ticketing front, but the latest industry figures suggest that it is growing at a fast pace. Under pressure from the global trade body, International Air Transport Association’s (IATA) to move to e-tickets by March 31, 2008, the industry has quickly moved from a low 65% compliance earlier this year to a high of 82.5% as of last month. Read the rest of this entry »

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NEW DELHI: The year 2007, so far, could be considered the best growth period for the civil aviation sector. The passengers carried by domestic airlines in the first three quarters of 2007 has registered 36.47% growth to 317.29 lakh passengers, up from 232.49 lakh passengers during the same period year ago. Read the rest of this entry »

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NEW DELHI: Market leader Jet Airways and the Kingfisher-Air Deccan combine are locked in a close contest for leadership of the Indian passenger aviation market. Read the rest of this entry »

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BANGALORE: As part of its expansion plan, low-cost airlines GoAir, will add two new aircraft to its fleet by November and double its flight operations from October-end. Read the rest of this entry »

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Mumbai, India, October 17, 2007: On the festive occasion of Navratri, Arzoo.com, India’s leading travel portal, today announced a special offer where customers can avail a guaranteed 9% discount on domestic airfare bookings on Go Air, Spicejet, Indigo, Indian & Jetlite anywhere within India. Similarly customers can also avail a guaranteed 7% discount on International airline bookings to US, Europe and Gulf. Read the rest of this entry »

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MUMBAI: No-frills carrier GoAir on Tuesday said it plans to operate four ‘red-eye’ flights at late night and early morning within its current network from this month-end. Read the rest of this entry »

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