Alitalia is offering a revamped tool for group bookings in India, called ‘Group Connect’, reveals Nicola Bonacchi, Vice President, Leisure Travel Sales, Alitalia. The platform offers increased flexibility, allowing agents to customise the conditions to be chosen based on a customer’s characteristics. TT Bureau Segmentation remains a key focus for …
Read More »SriLankan Airlines forges ahead with Business Turnaround plan
SriLankan Airlines has made significant progress in its efforts to become a sophisticated customer-centric airline intent on achieving financial success, by implementing a wide-ranging Turnaround Plan under the leadership of its Board of Directors with the unstinted support of its employees across all divisions. Following the appointment of a …
Read More »No more daytime flights till March as Kochi runway re-surfacing work begins
Anupriya Bishnoi The four-month-long runway re-surfacing work at Kochi Airport has begun and there would be no flights from 10 AM to 6 PM till March 28, 2020. Since almost all services have already been re-scheduled between 6 PM and 10 AM, the project period would see cancellation of only …
Read More »India will need nearly 2,500 new aircraft in two decades: Boeing
Anupriya Bishnoi To cater to growing travel demands, India would need around 2,400 aircraft in the next 20 years and around 85-90 per cent of them would be narrow-body, a senior executive of global aerospace giant Boeing said recently. Indian airlines currently have around 600 aircraft in their fleet. While …
Read More »Three new KLM destinations this winter including Bengaluru, India
Anupriya Bishnoi KLM Royal Dutch Airlines is launching services to three new destinations with the start of the winter schedule on 28 October: St Maarten, Guanacaste Liberia (Costa Rica) and Bangalore (India). KLM will continue to operate services to the new destinations of Boston, Las Vegas, Naples and Wroclaw, which …
Read More »Kuwait-London from Oct 27
Jazeera Airways will be launching a direct flight from Kuwait to Gatwick Airport in London on October 27, 2019, becoming the first low-cost carrier from the Gulf to directly fly to UK’s Gatwick Airport. TT Bureau Kuwait-based LCC, Jazeera Airways, will soon launch its new direct flight from Kuwait to …
Read More »Air India expands foreign network
After launching its Delhi-Seoul and Delhi-Toronto flights, Air India is now planning to boost its international connections with the launch of a Mumbai-Nairobi flight on November 27. Nisha Verma Air India recently launched its direct connection to Seoul, South Korea, which saw the national carrier join hands with Korea Tourism Organisation …
Read More »Domestic air passenger traffic grows by just 1.18% in September
According to the data released by Directorate General of Civil Aviation, the domestic air traffic last month consisted of 11.79 million passengers compared to 11.35 million passengers in the same month last year, a jump of 1.18 per cent. Indicating further slowdown in the aviation sector, the domestic air passenger …
Read More »Arkia Airlines to service Tel Aviv-Goa route on 220-seater Airbus A321 neo aircraft
Anupriya Bishnoi Israeli carrier Arkia Airlines expanded its network in India with the launch of a flight service to Goa from Tel Aviv. Goa is the second Indian destination for the West Asian airline, which forayed in the domestic market last month by launching twice weekly operations to Kochi from …
Read More »Virgin Atlantic doubles Indian services with new route to Mumbai
Virgin Atlantic is relaunching flights between London Heathrow and Mumbai, India. The first service is set to commence on 27 October 2019 and will complement the airline’s long established route between London and Delhi. The Mumbai flights will be operated on Virgin Atlantic’s Boeing 787-9 aircraft, offering customers its Upper …
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