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Thursday, April 29, 2010


  Japan Airlines Plans to Stop Flights on 45 Routes from end of September

Japan Airlines Corporation recently stated it will halt flights on 45 routes from Sept. 30 as the stressed carrier's new government-backed management team steps up efforts to execute a plan to reduce costs.

Presently in court-led administration having filed for bankruptcy protection earlier this year, Japan's biggest airline by revenue said the newest in a series of cuts will slice 40% off global passenger capacity in comparison to fiscal 2008, while domestic capacity will decrease by 30%.

Japan Airlines
The company stated that the extent to which the route and air travel frequency plan has been streamlined is essential to achieving a speedy revival of the JAL group. In the most recent action, 15 international routes will be cut, while 30 domestic routes will be halted .

Additionally,JAL affirmed that entire changes made since the end of fiscal 2009 mean 11 overseas bases will be shut, together with those in cities like Sao Paolo and Rome, while 8 domestic bases will also close up.

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Wednesday, April 28, 2010


  Southwest Airlines to Augment Hub Presence

Southwest Airlines continues its extension at Logan with every day nonstop service to Phoenix beginning Sept. 7. And to put up its recent growth spurt the carrier also plans a main increase in its ground operations staff.

The sole every day flight to Phoenix will mark the 6th nonstop destination proffered by the discount carrier since it introduced service in August with flights to Chicago and Baltimore-Washington International.

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In September, Texas-based Southwest announced that it would include nonstops from Logan to Denver and St. Louis, and in February it divulged plans to commence service to Philadelphia in June.Southwest previously offered nonstop service to Phoenix from T.F. Green, near Providence, and Manchester-Boston Regional Airport in Manchester, N.H.

After including the Philadelphia flights, which will commence with five dailies but develop to eight prior to the end of the summer,and the Phoenix service, the airline determined that it required supplementary staff at Logan. Currently, Southwest employs about 40 customer service and ramp workers, but it hope to include 30 more such ground operations employees.

Paul Flaningan, a Southwest spokesman stated that their strategies have actually ramped up pretty fast

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Monday, April 26, 2010


  Hansung Airlines to Recommence Journey in July

Hansung Airlines will recommence operations around July.According to the airline industry, the budget airline obtained court approval for a renewal plan last month and lately concluded steps to relaunch.

Hansung Airlines
Based in Cheongju, Hansung began as the nation's first low-cost carrier in August 2005 but temporarily stopped services in October 2008 when it applied for court receivership.Recently acquired by Tomato Savings Bank, it hopes to launch two airliners to proffer domestic flights, begining with the Gimpo-Jeju route.

An official with the Ministry of Land, Transport and Maritime Affairs stated that in case it speeds up arrangements it will be able to recommence operations by July which is a peak travel season.

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Thursday, April 22, 2010


  Jet Airways to Proffer Business Class at Cheap Prices

Considering the economic recovery and the come back of business class travelers, Naresh Goyal-run Jet Airways at present announced it would provide business class seats on its no-frills flights lesser than full-service rates.

Jet Airways
The cost of the business class one-way ticket from New Delhi to Mumbai on 'Jet Airways Konnect', the airline's budget service, would be Rs 12,000 all inclusive, in comparison to Rs 35,371 charged by the full service carrier.

The airline conveyed in a statement that buoyed by the enhancement in the worldwide economic environment and the resulting upswing in air travel demand, particularly business, Jet Airways Konnect will commence the all new 'Konnect Select' a premium cabin on a number of domestic routes effective April 26..

The airline would be converting quite a number of seats on the front of its carriers to business class. Jet Airways had introduced the all economy, no frills service Jet Konnect in May last year.



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Monday, April 19, 2010


  United Airlines Upgrades First And Executive Class To China

United Airlines,one of the world's chief transpacific carriers, has launched new, and more comfortable, first and business class suites on all its 747 flights via China and the USA.

The introduction is part of United's strategy of offering services that meet the assorted needs of its customers, predominantly frequent business travelers. For travelers from China, opening service was offered in transformed first and business class cabins on all United 747s flying United's Shanghai to San Francisco route (UA858) on March 29, 2010 and United's Beijing to San Francisco route (UA888) on March 30, 2010.

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According to Sidney Kwok, the director for Greater China at United Airlines, the fresh suites in China are a mirror image of United's investment in the Chinese market as well as its high regard for its most cherished customers.

The renovated cabins proffer a diversity of pioneering features, including truly flat 180 degree flat bed seats, iPod connectivity, personalized in-flight entertainment options, and a wider range of gourmet food and wine.The fresh business class seat has been extended to turn into a 23.5 inches wide chair and 6-foot, 4-inch long lie-flat bed.On the other hand, the new first class seat is now 31 inches wide and turns into a 6-foot, 6-inch long flat bed.

United Airlines is known to be the foremost U.S. carrier to provide iPod and iPhone connectivity on its in-flight entertainment system in first class and business class cabins, allowing clients to play their previously-downloaded personal content on the seat's flat screen TV while recharging their devices.

Both first and business class provide a 15.4-inch widescreen flat panel monitor with an on-demand digital system that poffers 150 hours worth of movies, TV programs as well as video games.The fresh entertainment system currently offers 20 channels of stored XM-branded audio, additionally allowing passengers to create customized playlists using 30 channels of other stored audio.The entertainment system navigation controls as well as the content are offered in up to 14 diverse languages, including English, and traditional and basic Chinese.

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Saturday, April 17, 2010


  Lufthansa Suspends Pune-Frankfurt Flight Until April 25

Lufthansa Airlines , a German airliner suspended its Pune-Frankfurt flight till April 25 for the overhaul of the Boeing 737 aircraft.A spokesperson from Lufthansa stated that the airlines has not accepted passenger bookings for the flights that were otherwise scheduled for April 18, 20 and 23. The service would recommence from April 25.

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She also added that for the period of this break, the interiors will be renovated and it will also initiate both business and economy class as it was operating only business class till now for the Pune-Frankfurt route.

Lufthansa launched the Pune-Frankfurt route in June 2008 with the B-737 with 50 business class capacity and afterward it was augmented to 56 seats.

It has been reported by Axel Hilgers, south-Asia region director of Lufthansa that the class arrangement is getting changed for including more number of seats to business class as well as economy class . This transformation is getting performed to increase more profit out of Pune-Frankfurt route.

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Wednesday, April 14, 2010


  Paramount Airways Assures to Provide Business Class Comfort at No-Frill Prices

Paramount Airways, which is the initial Airline in India to commence the New Generation Embraer 170/190 Family Series Aircrafts, has now launched a range of Delhi centric flights contrasting the past when Bangalore used to be the focal point.

The airlines company guarantees to proffer business class comfort at no-frill prices. But customers searching for budget airlines might not opt for Paramount Airways straight away given that the minimum fare for one way begins from Rs 8,000 onwards.

Paramount Airways
Particularly, its rates are much more than the budget flights like Indigo, GoAir, Jet Konnect, Jetlite, Air India (Express) but less than the top flights like Air India (Domestic), King Fisher and Jet Airways (Domestic).Infact Paramount Airways is the first airline in India to provide complete business class service at prices relative to normal economy class fares of other flights.The company plans to offer outstanding value for money and to make travelling experience a true enjoyment with a world of diversity.

As its target customers are business class ones, Paramount Airways is not worried much about the budget fares presented to economy class passengers by other domestic airlines.

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Sunday, April 11, 2010


  American Airlines to Commence New Flights to Madrid

American AirlinesAmerican Airlines has decided to launch new flights from John F. Kennedy Airport to Madrid on May 1 and is providing passengers additional bonus miles and special introductory fare prices.

The non-stop flights will leave JFK daily at 5:25 p.m. begining May 1 and land in Madrid at 7:20 a.m. Commencing May 2, on a daily basis flights will leave Madrid at 10 a.m. and arrive at JFK at 12:20 p.m. The airlines will be on a Boeing 757 that will include 16 business class seats and 166 economy cabin seats.

Ageles Alarco Canosa, the chief executive officer of Tourism Madrid stated that its a grand news that American Airlines has decided to commence a new connection between Madrid and New York, forming a bridge between two great cosmopolitan, dynamic regions.

An extraordinary offer is being made to AAdvantage Members who book a roundtrip and fly connecting May 1 and June 30. The customers will be able to obtain 10,000 bonus miles for business class fares and 5,000 bonus miles for economy class fares.

Additionally,American Airlines is also providing opening fares of $439 for a roundtrip in the economy class for JFK to Madrid flights that depart on Sunday through Thursday and return Monday through Thursday.The fare charge is $489 for flights that depart between Friday and Saturday and come back between Friday and Sunday.The tickets have to be purchased on AA.com and is for flights that depart between May 1 and May 21 and come back by June 15. The preliminary fare rate also needs a least of Saturday night stay and allows for a 30-day maximum stay.

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Thursday, April 8, 2010


  Codeshare Agreement between Gulf Air and Jet Airways

In order to improve connectivity between India and Bahrain, Jet Airways and Gulf Air have entered into a code-share agreement.The agreement will be effective from April 12. As per the agreement, Gulf Air will place its flight code on Jet Airways' routine services connecting Mumbai and Bahrain while Jet Airways will place its flight code on all Gulf Air-operated flights connecting Bahrain and Mumbai, Delhi, Chennai, Kochi and Thiruvananthapuram.

Nikos Kardassis, CEO, Jet Airways stated that in addition to offering improved connectivity to Bahrain from more than a few cities in India, the accord will also enable the guests from Bahrain to tap into their supreme domestic network, besides complimenting the presented frequent flier partnership.Jet Airways presently flies to 42 domestic destinations across India, and 22 destinations across North America, Europe, Asia as well as the Gulf.

Gulf Air CEO Samer Majali state that the agreement will allow both carriers to further leverage their relevant networks, providing passengers improved connectivity, baggage checked-through to their finishing destination and a host of additional benefits. Gulf Air's present network spans from Europe to Asia, connecting 43 cities in 28 countries with a fleet of 35 aircrafts.

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Friday, April 2, 2010


  Extraordinary offers from Etihad Airways

Etihad AirwaysEtihad Airways, that runs twice daily flights from Bangkok to Abu Dhabi and beyond to over 60 destinations internationally, is presently offering extraordinary promotions for customers traveling from Bangkok to European and Middle Eastern destinations.This special offer is provided in order to commemorate the airline’s 6th Anniversary in Thailand.The special fares are obtainable to book before 30 April 2010, with the travel period ranging between 19 April to 15 June 2010.

Etihad’s fare commencing from Bangkok to London, Frankfurt, Paris, and Dublin begin at THB 18,000 for Coral Economy Class.For Pearl Business Class ,the prices start from from THB 66,500.Extraordinary fares for other European destinations comprise Milan, Manchester, Munich, Geneva, Casablanca, and Brussels begin from THB 22,500 for Coral Economy Class .For Pearl Business Class THB,the prices begin from THB 70,000.

Additionally, Etihad also provides exclusive promotions to Middle Eastern places, comprising Kuwait, Riyadh, Muscat, Doha, Tehran, and Dammam, with charges begining from THB 17,000 for Coral Economy Class, and THB 47,500 for Pearl Business Class. Fares for Beirut,Damascus, Jeddah and Khartoum commence from THB 20,500 for Coral Economy Class, and THB 57,000 for Pearl Business Class.

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