tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17389103405301819252024-02-02T05:56:19.113-08:00Travel Newstravnewshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17484095753053260131noreply@blogger.comBlogger11096125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1738910340530181925.post-24880616484732934932018-06-20T04:31:00.001-07:002018-06-20T04:31:26.706-07:00India's Zoom Air mulls int'l ops to Myanmar, Bangladesh<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Zoom Air (India) (Delhi Int'l) is planning to launch its maiden international services connecting Kolkata Int'l and Guwahati in India's North-East with each of Chittagong in Bangladesh and Yangon in Myanmar, CEO Koustav Dhar has told the PTI newswire.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">"We will be able to introduce international flights from Kolkata because from now on, we will park two aircraft in the city at night," Dhar has said.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">The routes could be launched following the addition of the fifth CRJ-200ER to the carrier's fleet. Zoom Air has recently announced it has entered into an agreement with a fellow Indian operator Club One Air (Delhi Int'l) covering the dry-lease of the unit.</span><br>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Chandigarh: Currently undergoing runway expansion, Chandigarh International Airport may offer unrestricted night flights from August 2019 after the authorities complete third phase of expansion, an Indian Airforce spokesperson said on Wednesday.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">He said phase III expansion involves fitment of runway lights and other navigational aids. Completion of phase III would permit unrestricted day and night operations at Chandigarh airfields. Completion of phase III is envisaged in the first half of 2019.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">"Airport Authority of India (AAI) is assessing feasibility of fitment of Category III Instrument Landing System (ILS) on one of the runways at Chandigarh.</span><br>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">WOW Air will launch a new route from the U.S. to New Delhi, India, later this year.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Beginning Dec. 5, travelers can take off from St. Louis Lambert International Airport and eight other airports to Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi, India, with a stop in Iceland. One-way fares will start at $199.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">"We are passionate about continuing our mission of enabling everybody to fly by making international travel accessible and affordable for all and look forward to expanding our global service to provide travelers with the opportunity to see many parts of the globe, whether for business or pleasure," Founder and CEO Skúli Mogensen said in a statement.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">WOW Air, a budget airline based in Iceland, announced last year that it would service Lambert and become the airport's only carrier flying to Europe.</span><br>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Hubballi: With SpiceJet starting its flight services to Hyderabad and Chennai from Hubballi from Monday under the regional connectivity scheme, the air connectivity of the region has improved. Apart from this, the airlines is also operating two flights between Hubballi and Bengaluru and Hubballi and Mumbai.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">In the second round of bidding for UDAN (Ude Desh ka Aam Nagarik) scheme, the Ministry of Civil Aviation had picked Hubballi and SpiceJet was allotted three routes - Chennai, Hyderabad and Pune. Now the operator has decided to start services in two routes out of the allotted three. It may start service to Pune in the coming days.</span><br>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Srinagar: The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has granted permission for operating night flights to and from the Srinagar airport, for which the necessary infrastructural upgradation is being done by the Airport Authority of India (AAI), a spokesman of the Jammu and Kashmir government said here today.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">"The Srinagar airport will soon have night-landing facility, for which all preparations are being done by the agencies concerned," he said, after a high-level meeting chaired by Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">The DGCA had granted permission for operating night flights and the necessary infrastructural upgradation in this regard was being done by the AAI and state agencies, the spokesman said.</span><br>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Indians are taking off and how. In an annual survey on flight and hotel behaviour of travellers across 23 countries in the world, it was revealed that Indians were the third most frequent travellers in the Asia- Pacific region. The survey revealed the results of the Expedia flight and hotel etiquette study 2018.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Given our gift for striking up friendships, it is not surprising that Indians are globally number one in engaging in a conversation, when sitting next to someone they don’t know (59 per cent) and probably the reason why 70 per cent Indian travellers also dread sitting next to someone who talks too much.</span><br>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">The Indian government is planning to install special automated kiosks at airports to enable foreign travelers who are included in the low risk category to undergo quicker immigration checks, PTI reported. These kiosks, expected to be set up by January 2019, will help the foreign travelers to complete the identity verification process in seconds, the report quoted officials as saying.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Low-risk travelers from some select countries will be able to enter India without having to stand in long queues at immigration counters once the e-kiosks are put up. Low-risk travelers are those who don’t have any criminal or financial cases against them.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">The entire process is expected to be completed within a matter of a minute when a traveler comes to any e-Gate kiosk. The electronic gates will be installed at the arrival wing of international airports, and the foreign travelers can present their machine-readable passports, following which they can place their fingerprints on the scanner for verification and complete a customs declaration, the report added.</span><br>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Air Deccan launched flights out of Kolkata Int'l to a number of airports in India's North-East on April 26, 2018, marking the inauguration of operations under the government's Regional Connectivity Scheme (RCS or UDAN) in the region, The Times of India has reported.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Initially, the carrier based one Beech 1900D aircraft out of Kolkata, deploying the turboprop on services to each of Agartala, Aizawl, Dimapur, and Shillong. Following the positioning of a second unit of the type in mid-May 2018, the carrier plans to launch services to Durgapur, Cooch Behar, Bagdogra, and Silchar.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Out of these airports, only Cooch Behar currently does not see any scheduled traffic.</span><br>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">The government’s attempt at privatising maintenance of airport terminals has drawn a blank from investors. And, has forced the Narendra Modi government to mull complete privatisation — a plan initiated by the previous United Progressive Alliance government but dropped by the current regime, facing protest from employee unions.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">The plan is to privatise at least eight government-owned airports — Chennai, Kolkata, Kochi, Pune, Ahmedabad, Jaipur, Lucknow and Guwahati.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">The civil aviation ministry is having discussions on designing the model on how the airports would be bid out, according to sources. It is likely the airports will be bid out for 30 years and the tariffs will be fixed upfront.</span><br>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">New Delhi: Air India has recorded a 20 per cent growth in revenue in March-April 2018. The carrier has also embarked on a route-analysis exercise, focusing on increasing flying hours of its aircraft, to add more trips, Chairman and Managing Director, Pradeep Singh Kharola, said.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">The airline is focussing on improving the operational efficiency, both in the domestic and international sectors, even as it is buoyed over the load factor, on time performance and revenue growth, Kharola said.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">"The revenue has increased by about 20 per cent as compared to the same period last year at roughly about Rs30 billion, though expenses continue to remain high," he said, adding the airline has benefitted from the overall growth in the aviation market.</span><br>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">No-frills carrier IndiGo will expand its flight offerings to include 24 foreign destinations over the next 18 months, a person aware of the development said. The new routes will include 18 shorthaul destinations in the Middle East, Southeast Asia and China, and six longhaul flights to cities in France, Germany, Belgium, the UK and Switzerland, the person cited earlier said, adding that the airline may order dual-aisle aircraft for the purpose.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">“The plans for international expansion are firmed up and the airline may order wide-bodied aircraft at the Farnborough air show to be held in July,” the source said, requesting not to be named. An email query to Indigo, the country’s largest carrier by market share, remained unanswered until press time, but a government official confirmed that IndiGo has firmed up plans to launch international operations in a big way, which will be its second phase of expansion. In an interview with ET earlier this month, IndiGo cofounder Rahul Bhatia had said that domestic and international expansion along with addition of new aircraft are the airline’s priority.</span><br>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">New Delhi: Air India has recorded a 20 per cent growth in revenue in March-April 2018 and has embarked on a route analysis exercise, focussing on increasing flying hours of each of its aircraft, to add more trips, the airlines chairman-cum-managing director, Pradeep Singh Kharola, said.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">The airline is focussing on improving the operational efficiency both in the domestic and international sectors even as it is buoyed over the load factor, on time performance and revenue growth, Kharola told PTI.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">"During March-April, the revenue has increased by about 20 per cent as compared to the same period last year at roughly about Rs 3,000 crore, though expenses continue to remain high," he said, adding that the airline has benefitted from the overall growth in the aviation market.</span><br>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">New Delhi: Come January 2019, low-risk foreign travellers will not have to wait in long queues at airport immigration counters as the government plans to install special automated kiosks for speedy document and identity verification. Low-risk travellers from select countries from January 2019 can enter India without standing in long queues at immigration counters as the government has plans to install these automated kiosks, officials said today. These kiosks will ensure smooth entry of foreigners in seconds after verification of antecedents, they said. Electronic gates or e-Gates will be put in place at the arrival wing of international airports where foreigners can present their machine-readable passports, place their fingerprints on the scanner for verification and complete a customs declaration.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Without any human intervention, e-cameras will clear the travellers who present approved biometric. They can then go straight to the baggage claim area after de-boarding the plane and then to the exit, a Home Ministry official told PTI.</span><br>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">New Delhi: Come January 2019, low-risk foreign travellers will not have to wait in long queues at airport immigration counters as the Government plans to install special automated kiosks for speedy document and identity verification.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Low-risk travellers from select countries from January 2019 can enter India without standing in long queues at immigration counters as the Government has plans to install these automated kiosks, officials said today.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">These kiosks will ensure smooth entry of foreigners in seconds after verification of antecedents, they said.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Low-risk travellers are people who do not have any criminal or financial cases levelled against them.</span><br>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Tiruchi: Domestic movement at Tiruchi international airport is set to soar further with the Jet Airways proposing to start a daily service in the Tiruchi - Bengaluru- Tiruchi sector.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">The private airline which already operates flights in the Tiruchi- Chennai - Tiruchi and Tiruchi - Mumbai-Delhi sectors has planned to launch the service to Bengaluru from here on July 1.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Airline sources said the proposed new service to Bengaluru would be operated using an 'ATR'-72 type aircraft. The daily service to the garden city would be operated in the morning.</span><br>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">The government today held detailed discussions with telecom operators and airlines on framing guidelines for in-flight data and voice services, sources said. The meeting comes within a fortnight of the Telecom Commission, the highest policy making body of Department of Telecom (DoT), clearing a proposal for allowing in-flight connectivity.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Once the guidelines are in place, it would allow travellers to use internet and voice services on mobile phones during flights in the Indian airspace.</span><br>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Jet Airways today announced the launch of operations under the ‘Ude Desh ka Aam Naagrik’ (UDAN) scheme. The airline has been awarded four routes under the Regional Connectivity Scheme (RCS) and will launch operations on three new routes out of the four routes awarded, and will subsequently launch Lucknow-Bareilly-Delhi-Bareilly-Lucknow.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> On the occasion, Gaurang Shetty, Whole time Director, Jet Airways said, “Jet Airways started off with the aim of introducing India to a world class travel experience and connectivity embodied in the ‘joy of flying’. Having pioneered the operations of the ATR aircraft in India, the launch of these new flights mainly onboard ATR aircraft, will allow Jet Airways to embark on a journey to ensure that unserved regions and underserved airports are maximized to their full potential. </span><br>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Pune: The new terminal building of the Lohegaon airport will be the simplest in design and segregate the domestic and international flyers completely.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">A source told TOI, “The terminal building will be integrated for both domestic and international flyers but there will be different security hold areas for each section. The passengers will be experiencing the kind of facilities available in Delhi and Mumbai airports once the new terminal building is ready.”</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">The Delhi airport, for example, has three terminal buildings. All of them are integrated for domestic and international flights. But international flyers are completely separated from domestic passengers through a proper system of checks and immigration.</span><br>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Bhubaneswar: Union Petroleum and Skill Development Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Saturday wrote to Civil Aviation Minister Suresh Prabhu to expedite the process of identification of land and construction works for the proposed new airport near Bhubaneswar as passenger traffic is growing fast at the Biju Patnaik International Airport (BPIA).</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Besides, he demanded that airports at Rourkela and Jeypore be operationalised soon under the UDAN scheme.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">“As many as 3.25 million passengers, both domestic and international, flew from the PBIA in 2017-18 which marks a record year over year growth of 39.4 per cent. Thus, there is an urgent need to set up a new airport at Bhubaneswar,” wrote Pradhan.</span><br>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">From a delayed flight to a seat with a broken recliner, from a rude staff member to bad food, fliers lash out at airlines on social media with all sorts of complaints. How well and how soon airlines respond to these complaints is crucial. An airline’s quick customer service and on-time performance help fuel positive conversations about the brand online. An exclusive analysis of online chatter about India’s seven largest domestic airlines (according to passengers carried in January-March 2018) by MavenMagnet for ET Magazine decodes how the brands fare in the minds of fliers on a range of parameters.</span></div><a href="http://mytravnews.blogspot.com/2018/06/vistara-jet-and-indigo-top-customers.html#more">Read more »</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1738910340530181925.post-1623177646411741922018-06-05T03:41:00.000-07:002018-06-05T03:41:01.808-07:00Indigo to launch flight services from Surat in next couple of months<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Surat: After budget carrier AirAsia India, Indigo is all set to launch its flight services from the Diamond City in the next couple of months.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">The private airline has submitted an application to the Airports Authority of India (AAI) for space allotment at Surat airport to carry out operations. Also, the airline is believed to have started recruitment of ground staff for handling flight operations at the airport.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Sources said senior airline officials have visited the Diamond City on three occasions and that they seem to have finalized their plan to connect Surat with other sectors. The airline plans to connect Surat with Jaipur, Amritsar, Goa, Chennai, Hyderabad and other destinations.</span><br>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Mumbai: After making things easier for train passengers by introducing more flexible options on multiple platforms , the Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corp (IRCTC) has also decided to strengthen it's foothold in the aviation sector by giving best fares in major airlines like Jet Airways, Air India and Air Vistara. Now, through IRCTC, one can book air tickets at the lowest convenience charge of Rs 59, and one can book tickets through mobile apps as well.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">On Friday, IRCTC through its Twitter account said, “Get the #best #deals on #flight #tickets when you #travel both within #India and #Abroad! Take your family in full-fledged comfort via the #IRCTCAir app, available for both #iOS & #Android!.”</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">So, in case if you plan to book an air ticket, here are some few facts you should remember.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Jet Airways (9W), Air India (AI) and Air Vistara (UK) are offered as full service airlines. They offer full services including free in-flight meals.</span><br>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">There are chances that the under-construction Navi Mumbai International Airport might not be ready by December 2019 as the civil aviation ministry on Thursday said that it will be tough to meet the deadline.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Civil aviation secretary RN Choubey said, “It will be difficult to have the airport ready by 2019, but we’ll try to make it happen.” Chobey was speaking on the sidelines of the US-India aviation summit.</span><br>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">New Delhi: The Ministry of Civil Aviation (MoCA) on Tuesday gave in-principle approval to the Uttar Pradesh government to build Noida International Airport at Jewar, a town situated about 100 kms away from New Delhi. This will be the second airport in the Delhi NCR region that will be expected to give relief to the existing airport in Delhi which is bursting at the seams.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">The bidding process is likely to start in the first week of July, says Arun Vir Singh, CEO of Yamuna Expressway Industrial Development Authority (YEIDA), the nodal agency for the airport project. "We haven't prepared the bidding document as yet. It is still at the discussion stage. The EoI (expression of interest) document will be floated in the first week of July," he says. The think tank NITI Aayog had prepared a model bid document, and the YEIDA will do tweaking to that document over the next two months.</span><br>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Indore: Devi Ahilya Bai Holkar Airport will soon have an Aviation Weather Observing System (AWOS) or Meteorological Park for smooth flight operations especially during bad weather conditions.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">The Met park will be equipped with a Runway Visibility Range (RVR) equipment which will help flights land even in zero visibility.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Airport director Aryama Sanyal said that RVR, which is also called ‘Drishti’ system, includes a set of visibility sensors and communication device, and it is capable of detecting accurate visibility range to help pilot in safe landing and take-off.</span><br>
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