An Air Deccan flight, which was grounded because of a bird hit at the Visakhapatnam airport. Bird hits have proved especially expensive to airlines this year.

Cash-strapped airlines have been pounded on another front suffering a loss of at least Rs 7 crore this year on account of bird hits. As of October, 241 bird-hit cases were reported. Read the rest of this entry »

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SALEM: After a 16-year wait, the airport at Salem in western Tamil Nadu became operational again, with Kingfisher Airlines kicking off its Chennai-Salem services on Sunday. Puducherry is the only airport that does not have commercial services in the southern region. Read the rest of this entry »

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NEW DELHI: The aviation regulator on Wednesday de-rostered six pilots of Kingfisher Airlines, Air India and Go Air for violating norms and landing on a short runway under rainy conditions at the Mumbai airport. Read the rest of this entry »

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Mumbai: A Kingfisher Airlines ATR-72 aircraft skidded off the runway on Tuesday at around 1630 hrs IST while landing at the Mumbai airport, officials said. The airlines has ordered a probe into the incident. The aircraft carried 42 passengers and four crew members, and there are no casualties, a spokesman for the airlines said on Tuesday evening. Read the rest of this entry »

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NEW DELHI: Every time an angry passenger goes on a TV channel to narrate his ordeal due to the pilots’ strike, Jet Airways chief Naresh Goyal immediately calls up senior Jet officials from his “war room” — a suite in a Delhi five-star hotel — and demands an explanation. Read the rest of this entry »

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NEW DELHI: Expanding its network of destinations in South-East Asia, Kingfisher Airlines will commence daily non-stop flights from Mumbai to Hong Kong and Mumbai to Singapore from September 15 and 16 respectively. This article has In-flight pictures of the Kingfisher Airlines International Flights to Singapore and Hong Kong from Mumbai, India. See Details. Read the rest of this entry »

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BANGALORE: If you book two days in advance or one month in advance your air fares are the same. Even on trunk routes, the fares for immediate travel are at rock bottom. A Bangalore-Delhi return ticket on SpiceJet for travel between September 7 and 8, inclusive of taxes and airport charges, is Rs 6,318. Of the total, the basic fare is only Rs 1,400. For the same price, SpiceJet is offering a Bangalore-Delhi return ticket for travel between October 7 and 8. Read the rest of this entry »

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MUMBAI — India’s low-cost airlines are set to go from strength to strength as they grab market share from ailing premier carriers such as Air India, whose debts and losses continue to pile up, experts say. Read the rest of this entry »

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New Delhi: A woman and her five-year-old son, who arrived from the US on Thursday, have tested positive for swine flu or H1N1 virus in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu. The two travelled to India via Dubai and arrived in Chennai on May 28. The same day, they took a Kingfisher Airlines flight to Coimbatore. As the child was running a fever, they went to a hospital, where they were immediately admitted to an isolation facility; their blood samples were found to be H1N1 positive. Read the rest of this entry »

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MUMBAI: A fire broke out on Monday at a Kingfisher airlines office at the domestic airport in Mumbai. Fire tenders have been pressed into service to douse the blaze, a Kingfisher spokesperson said. Read the rest of this entry »

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