Following high demand for flights to South Africa for finals of the FIFA World Cup, which will be held from June 11-July11, 2010, Emirates Airlines will operate additional flights to Cape Town and Johannesburg on July 12-13, 2010.

Malaysian low-fare international carrier AirAsia Berhad last week declared it would “rock and paint the Indian skies red” by adding six direct flights to five new destinations in the country between 17 May and 4 August 2010.

Swiss International airlines has started a weekly charter service between Zurich and Goa, a company official said here on Tuesday.

India’s largest airline by passengers, Jet Airways (India) Ltd, is set to become the country’s first carrier to fly to South Africa.
The airline is also entering into an agreement with Kenya Airways to connect to the northern regions of Africa, coinciding with India’s recent thrust to improve economic diplomacy in the continent.

Low-cost airline, AirAsia, on Friday celebrated its maiden flight to Kota Kinabalu (KK) from Taipei.

Emirates will introduce daily direct flights from Dubai to Madrid, effective August 1, 2010. After Amsterdam and Prague, Madrid is the third new European destination announced by Emirates for 2010. A 237─seat A330─200, offering 12 seats in First Class, 42 in Business and 183 in Economy will serve the Dubai─Madrid route.




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According to a report in etravelblackboard.com, Emirates has confirmed that it will operate an A380 service between Paris and Dubai from December 29, 2009 one month earlier than initially planned.

The 489-seat aircraft will be incorporated into Emirates' already well established double daily flights to Paris. The A380 aircraft will initially service three of the morning departures from Dubai, becoming daily from January 17, 2010.

Salem Obaidalla, Senior Vice President, Commercial Operations, Europe and Russian Federation, Emirates' said, “Our forward carryings out of France are strong. Coupled with the earlier aircraft availability on that route, it means we can provide passengers with the experience of flying in this aircraft between Dubai and Paris much sooner than anticipated. It also provides our passengers with an earlier A380 service all the way through to Sydney, Auckland, Bangkok and soon, Seoul.”

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Air China, the nation's largest carrier, will launch direct flights from Southwest China's Chengdu to Bangalore, the "Silicon Valley of India," to promote mutual exchange in the software industry.

Air service between the two cities is scheduled to start in late February next year.
Airbus A319 or Boeing 757 of Air China southwestern branch will depart from Chengdu, capital of Sichuan Province, on Wednesdays and Saturdays at 8:30 pm (Beijing time), and will arrive in Bangalore on the same day at 11:10 pm (local time), company sources said.Return flights will be on Thursdays and Sundays, leaving Bangalore at 0:20 and arriving in Chengdu at 7:20 am.


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Effective December 23, 2009, Jet Airways, India’s premier international airline, will introduce new, direct services on the Mumbai-Dhaka-Mumbai sectors, aboard its state-of-the-art Boeing 737-800 aircraft.

This will be Jet Airways’ third flight to Bangladesh from India, and will connect Dhaka with several destinations across North America, Europe and the ASEAN region, as well as eight destinations across the Gulf, over the airline’s Mumbai hub.
The airline currently flies daily from Delhi and Kolkata to Dhaka.

The new Mumbai-Dhaka flight will initially operate 6 days a week, with the exception of Tuesdays. Effective March 29, 2010, it will be a daily flight.

Flight 9W 276 will depart Mumbai's Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport at 0830 hrs, arriving in Dhaka’s Zia International Airport at 1300 hrs. Flight 9W 275 will then depart Dhaka at 1430 hrs, arriving in Mumbai at 1610 hrs.

According to Mr. Nikos Kardassis, Acting CEO, Jet Airways, “Jet Airways offers travelers seamless connections to several destinations across India, as well as the Gulf, North America, Europe and ASEAN, over its hubs in Mumbai and Delhi. The launch of our new Mumbai-Dhaka service will thus connect Dhaka to the world, via Mumbai, while further enhancing air connectivity on the busy India-Bangladesh sector.”

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Indian passengers travelling to North America can soon enjoy a new travel option with SWISS as San Francisco is set to become the latest long-haul destination.

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.
The flight takes an hour to reach Salem. The Chennai-Salem flight will depart from Chennai at 2.50pm and reach Salem at 3.50pm. In the return direction, the flight will take off at 4.20pm and reach Chennai at 5.20pm. If booked seven days in advance, the fare would be Rs 2,529. For bookings within a week, the fare would range between Rs 2,859 and Rs 7,200. On the first day, the flight from Salem to Chennai was almost full barring one vacant seat.

The new service will help residents of Salem to fly to Delhi via Chennai. The Salem-Delhi air ticket via Chennai would cost Rs 6,700.

Located on a sprawling 136-acre extend donated by local traders and industrialists, the Salem airport lay in disuse since 1993 as no airline was willing to invest in this sector. The NEPC airlines started its service only to shut it down because of poor patronage.
16/11/09 Times of India

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Malaysia’s long-haul budget airline AirAsia X, which had started operations to Tiruchi last year, on Thursday began daily direct flights to Kochi, while two more Indian destinations will be added next week.

“We expect strong demand from customers, especially business travellers,’’ the CEO of AirAsia X, Mr Azran Osman-Rani, told reporters here on Thursday on the sidelines of the Third Kuala Lumpur International Trade Forum.

The carrier, an affiliate of AirAsia, will start flying to Thiruvananthapuram and Kolkata from next week, he said.

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In order to meet the growing demand from Doha to the Northern part of India, Air India Express will introduce Delhi as a new destination effective 26th October, 2009, three times a week

. The Mumbai flight will be extended to Delhi and the passengers from Doha to Delhi will travel without disembarking at Mumbai on the same aircraft.

From Delhi, Air India express will offer a flat add-on of QAR.150/- one way on Air India or Indian Airlines domestic flights to places like Amritsar, Srinagar, Varanasi, Patna, Lucknow etc.
A similar offer already exists over Mumbai to places like Baroda, Ahmadabad, Hyderabad, Chennai, Goa etc. In fact, over Mumbai or Delhi which are our gate way points, passengers can connect to any one destination in India at a flat add-on rate of QAR. 150/- one way on our services.

To Kerala Air India Express from October will fly daily to Kozhikode. It already flies daily to Kochi, twice weekly to Thiruvananthapuram and three times a week to Mumbai & Mangalore.

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Emirates Airline is set to increase its capacity from the South Indian state of Kerala by over 2000 seats a week, within the next two months.
The airline would add another eight flights from Trivandrum and Calicut by December, Asha Subramanian, Emirates sales manager for South Kerala, told reporters here on Thursday.
With this, the number of flights from Trivandrum to Dubai will go up from eight to 12 a week, and 7 to 11 from Calicut. Six of these flights, three each from Trivandrum and Calicut, would start operations from October 26 and the rest from December 1. After the addition of new flights, passenger seat capacity per week from Trivandrum will go up from the present 2,200 to 3,300.
The airline already operates 14 flights from Cochin — the third international airport in the state.
She said the timings of the flights have been fixed in such a way that those travelling to onward destinations need not wait at Dubai for more than ?two hours.
The official said that the recession had not hit the airline’s operations from India much. Our load factor in the region has remained around 75 per cent.
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Next month, Air India will extend one of its two direct flights to New York from Delhi and Mumbai to Washington.

Said an airline spokesperson: “Many people want to fly Washington directly and a need has been felt. This will happen from October 25.”

The airline is also changing the timing of its last flight in the Delhi-Mumbai route on both sides from 8 pm to 9 pm. This is to attract more business travellers.

The government-owned airline, with losses of Rs 7,200 crore on its books,also has plans to bring passengers from Bangkok to Mumbai and then book them on west-bound flights. This scheme is being followed in the flights from Dhaka and has been a success, said the spokesperson.
The airline has a market share of 16.6 per cent in the domestic market and over 33 per cent of the international passengers from India.

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>Pacific Blue has added two further international routes connecting Australia and New Zealand. Sydney (SYD) is now connected to Queenstown (ZQN) with two weekly flights while Brisbane (BNE) is linked with Hamilton (HLZ) three times per week. Air New Zealand (five weekly flights)

>jetBlue has entered the highly competitive Boston (BOS) to Baltimore/Washington (BWI) market by starting four daily flights with its 100-seat Embraer E190s.

>Aegean Airlines has begun serving Istanbul (IST) from its base at Athens (ATH). Flights operate daily using an A320.

>Aer Lingus has launched another new route from its new base at London Gatwick (LGW). Vilnius (VNO), the capital of Lithuania, will initially be served with three weekly flights before increasing to daily at the start of the winter season.

>AirAsia added three new routes to its network this week. From Kota Kinabalu (BKI) in Malaysia it has begun daily flights to Brunei (BWN).

>Bahrain Air is complementing its existing thrice-weekly service to Jeddah with a new four-times weekly service between Bahrain (BAH) and Riyadh (RUH). There will be a single flight on Wednesdays and Fridays and two flights on Sunday.

>SkyExpress of Russia has begun another route from its base at Moscow Vnukovo (VKO) airport. It will now serve Krasnodar (KRR) daily.




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The ‘Myanmar International Airway’ (MAI) will launch a Rangoon-Bodh Gaya (India) flight from October 25.The ticket reservation centre of the Burmese National Flag carrier said MAI will operate the Rangoon- Bodh Gaya flight twice a week - Wednesdays and Saturdays. The airfare is yet to be fixed.

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“We are operating this flight as the number of pilgrims is increasing. We will fly two days a week initially and increase the frequency in keeping with the rise in passengers,” Mie Mie, an official at the MAI ticket reservation centre in Rangoon told Mizzima.

An official of the ‘Nilar’ Bodh Gaya pilgrimage tour said that the number of passengers visiting the Buddhist sacred place had increased since 2005. Bodh Gaya in India’s Bihar state, is considered a sacred place for Buddhists, as it is known as the land where Lord Buddha attained enlightenment.

The MAI is also reportedly planning to increase the frequency of the present Bangkok and Kuala Lumpur flights starting from the ensuing peak season. According to the proposal, the MAI will operate the Rangoon-Bangkok flight seven days a week from the current five days a week, starting October 25. The Rangoon-Kuala Lumpur flight will be increased to five days a week from the current four days.

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Jet Airways, India’s premier international airline, will launch a new daily flight on the Hyderabad-Dubai sector, aboard a state-of-the-art Boeing 737-800 aircraft, effective August 16, 2009.

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The new Hyderabad-Dubai flight will be Jet Airways’ first international service from Hyderabad, and its second daily service to Dubai from South India.
The airline currently flies twice daily to Dubai from Mumbai, and daily from Delhi and Chennai.
Effective August 16, 2009 to October 24, 2009, flight 9W 550 will depart Hyderabad at 0935 hrs, arriving in Dubai at 1150 hrs. Flight 9W 549 will then depart Dubai at 1250 hrs, arriving in Hyderabad at 1805 hrs.
Effective October 25, 2009 to March 27, 2010, flight 9W 550 will depart Hyderabad at 0935 hrs, arriving in Dubai at 1210 hrs. Flight 9W 549 will then depart Dubai at 1310 hrs, arriving in Hyderabad at 1805 hrs.
Hyderabad, or the ‘City of Pearls’ is the administrative, financial and economic capital of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. A delightful mix of old-world charm and modernity, Hyderabad has, in recent years, grown to become one of the coutnry’s leading IT and biotechnology hubs.

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Petaling Jaya: Good news for those who travel often to Tiruchirapalli as low-cost carrier AirAsia will be adding a second daily flight to the Indian district starting Sept 1.

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To celebrate the introduction of the flight, AirAsia will be offering an all-in fare of RM129.00 for a travel period between Sept 1 this year and April 30 next year.
The booking period for the flight will be from Tuesday to Aug 2.
AirAsia Group commercial regional head Kathleen Tan said the airline was proud to be servicing an underserved route and opening up this market to the world.
Tiruchirapalli was AirAsia’s first destination in India since its inception on Dec 1 last year.
AirAsia is also offering its guests free rooms in various destinations when they book at its partner hotels via goholiday.airasia.com.
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Jet Airways will launch operations from Sharjah International Airport on September 1, 2009, with a daily direct service from Sharjah to Kochi, according to a senior Jet Airways executive.
"Jet Airways will begin the Kochi-Sharjah service from September 1 this year, making it the airline's first flight out of Sharjah," Shakir Kantawala, Jet Airways' General Manager for Dubai and Northern Emirates, told Emirates Business.

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For the Indian carrier, which is already operating twice-daily services to Dubai from Mumbai, and daily services from Delhi and Chennai besides daily direct flights to Abu Dhabi from Mumbai and Delhi, this would be its first flight from the UAE into Kerala.
Asked why Jet Airways chose Sharjah International Airport to start Kerala services over Dubai or Abu Dhabi, Kantawala said: "Our plan to operate out of Sharjah, subject to all government approvals being in place, stems from the fact that there is a large Keralite community residing in Sharjah and the Northern Emirates, who would like to travel on a full-service premium airline, which offers very good value for money."
While Kantawala did not divulge the exact fares for the route, he said Jet Airways, which would deploy a Boeing 737-800 aircraft on the route, will offer its services on the ground and in the air, at "affordable and competitive fares".
He added that the airline will reveal its pricing strategy and introductory offers in the next two to three days.


source| Shweta Jain/Emirates Business 24-7, UAE