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| Airlines to raise capacity to meet demand | 29th Jan, 10 , Financial Chronicle |
After a year of capacity reduction and lackluster growth, domestic carriers are now looking at redeploying the capacity that they had withdrawn last year, through cautiously.
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| Tourism min to tighten monitoring norms | 27th Jan, 10 , Times of India |
Concerned over the lack of spending by states, tourism ministry plans to tighten monitoring norms and cut off funding for projects sanctioned before 2004-2005 that have not been completed so far. The ministry is also planning to set up prioritization meetings with states from February expedite spending.
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| Indian aviation needs to focus on basics to take off | 27th Jan, 10 , Business Standard |
After being in trouble for more than a year and losing Rs 10,000 crore, the Indian aviation industry is looking up.
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| Demand for premium airline tickets still sputtering , economy sales up , says IATA | 21st Jan, 10 , Economic Times |
Demand for first and business class tickets, accounting for nearly one-third of most airlines’ revenues, remains weak and an improvement in November was a blip, the International Air Transport Association said.
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| Jet plans to phase out no-frills Konnect | 21st Jan, 10 , Daily news Analysis |
Jet Airways’ low cost brand-JetKonnect – that had given flight to the full-service carrier’s revenues during the downturn in the aviation sector in the last two years, will fly into the sunset as its raison d; etre itself ends.
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| Qatar Airways to start daily Doha-Bangalore flight | 21st Jan, 10 , Business Line |
Qatar Airways has said it will commence daily nonstop flights between Doha and Bangalore, its newest Indian destination, from February 22.
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| Swiss Air to step up services | 21st Jan, 10 , Business Line |
Swiss international Air liens are gradually getting its capacity out of India back to pre-recession levels.
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| Spice Jet shortlists four foreign destinations, to shift to GDS | 18th Jan, 10 , HT Mint |
India’s second largest low-cost carrier by passengers flown, SpiceJet Ltd, has applied for permission to fly abroad and hopes to land in one of four neighbouring nations it has shortlisted for expansion by July this year.
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| Seamless travel proposed in South | 17th Jan, 10 , Hindu |
The first inter-State regional conference of tourism ministers from South India was held here on Saturday to evolve a mechanism to facilitate “seamless’ travel of tourists and to promote holistic in the region.
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| Patel wants airlines to clun fare, surcharge | 17th Jan, 10 , Business Standard |
Airlines and travel portals may soon have to publish one fare that includes the basic fare and the fuel surcharge. At present, airlines and portals first give the basic fare and add the fuel surcharge and the airport and user development fees levied by the government when the ticket is purchased. The fuel surcharge levied by the airlines often exceeds the basic fare.
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