**** If <acronym title="Jet Airways (India)">9W</acronym> can use its codeshare with <acronym title="OLD: Sabena (Belgium), NEW: SN Brussels Airlines (Belgium)">SN</acronym> effectively and provide competitive fares ex- India to these destinations they can tap into a huge market that currently relie...
Jump to postContrast this to the crowd I had seen boarding a DN flight to <acronym title="Kolkata (Calcutta) - Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose International (Dum Dum) (CCU / VECC), India">CCU</acronym> . You had folks with cartons, cloth bags n smone who asked for a side berth!! The number of such first time travel...
Jump to postAnd you also forgot to add that you will be lucky to get any fare below Rs 2000 on the other three airlines. And being a frequent flyer , I am sure you will remember that until Feb 2006 when Air Deccan started services on the <acronym title="Bangalore (- Hindustan) (BLR / VOBG), India">BLR</acronym>...
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Jump to postYor travel agent used AMADEUS for booking your itinerary.
(??? - CHECK MY TRIP )
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Jump to postIt can be bought locally in BOM or DEL from a few bookshops. It doesnt cost too much if I remember.
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Jump to postMRos will need to have people to have skilled maintnenance people working there on a long term basis (not 24 hour transits). Nagpur is not going to have many takers- HYD or BLR should be the forerunners , and ofcourse Chennai cannot be discounted either. By the way is Trivandrum gettingan <acronym t...
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Jump to postBA-WNS/SQ-ASDC/LH-<acronym title="Redmond - Roberts Field (RDM / KRDM), USA - Oregon">RDM</acronym>/LX(or rather <acronym title="Swissair">SR</acronym>)-Datamatics. <acronym title="Bloomington / Normal - Central Illinois Regional (BMI / KBMI), USA - Illinois">BMI</acronym> to add to to a very long l...
Jump to postListen folks - do give the "babu's" a break. Dont know about many of you, but I grew up as a school kid in an era where getting into the IAS (India's civil service) was some thing which was taught to us as an early age as akin to getting a cherished prize! Those days - I am talking about the late 70...
Jump to postBut then Sunil Arora , the last full time chief of Indian Airlines was also a bureaucrat, wasn't he ? And by all means he was held in very high regard by everyone at Indian Airlines. This "talent within the industry" stuff is irrelevant, at the top levels of any organisation, airlines included.The l...
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What I love most Amadeus is their checkmytrip.com faciltity.
And now I have Amadeus loaded on my lap top after an years gap (I work for one of your users now) it is a bit like coming home!
One of the first organised Antrarctic flights were by Air New Zealand using DC 10s in the late 1970s . I think the routing was Auckland- Antarctica- Christchurch-Auckland. These flights however came to a tragic end following the fatal accidentfor one of the aircraft when it collided with Mount Erebu...
Jump to postNo <acronym title="Malaysia Airlines">MH</acronym> 9096, I think you meant <acronym title="Malaysia Airlines">MH</acronym> 9069. Yes it is operated by a Thai 777. Check in should be with Thai. Both the airlines have a very liberal codeshare arrangement on this route with 3 daily flights operated by ...
Jump to postNo <acronym title="Malaysia Airlines">MH</acronym> 9096, I think you meant <acronym title="Malaysia Airlines">MH</acronym> 9069. Yes it is operated bt a Thai 777. Check in should be with Thai. Noth the airliens have a very liberal codeshare arrangement on this route with 3 flights operated by <acron...
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Jump to postThe worst hit should be <acronym title="Gulf Air (Bahrain/UAE/Oman/Qatar)">GF</acronym> and esp <acronym title="Qatar Airways">QR</acronym>. Cunrrently most of the Europe traffic is carried by <acronym title="Qatar Airways">QR</acronym> due to its extensive network there (compared to other airlines ...
Jump to postInteresting to hear about flying on a Jet Airways aircraft on a <acronym title="Gulf Air (Bahrain/UAE/Oman/Qatar)">GF</acronym> flight. Way back in 1997, I once flew Bombay Madras on a Jet Airways flight which was operated using a leased <acronym title="Gulf Air (Bahrain/UAE/Oman/Qatar)">GF</acronym...
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Jump to postOk - to put things bluntly US market has been the most developed airline market for a long time. And as some one mentioned their centres were staffed by those from the industry. These call centres are now being outsourced to India to companies who treat it as a PROCESS. The recruitment and training ...
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Jump to postWell you cant have the best of both wrold's can you? Rock Bottom fares and free special service! But the way Jet and Indaan (oops no more "Airlines") are controlling their fares (check fares/easy fares/what not), you may get a cheaper deal in these two airlines (With FREE wheel chair thrown in) than...
Jump to postWheelchair pax hold up boarding! Delay means more time.Time means money! And to boot no one turns away easy money! It is a win win situation either way! Dont want to travel by paying the extra bucks - thank you very much - precisely what was intended! Your seat can be filled up by normal folks - les...
Jump to postSpice is also charging Rs 500 per wheel chair.
Jump to postWell- nothing wrong!
I think they could charge 1000Rs and still got away with it!
The market is not going to collapse or their image going to suffer because of this move.
If people have no hesitation in buying food on board, neither will they have any problem paying up this charge.
Well , some of the 319 flights will be as follows (as per Amadeus+IC website) <acronym title="Indian Airlines">IC</acronym> 601 BOM 0600 DEL 0755 <acronym title="Indian Airlines">IC</acronym> 601 DEL 0855 LKO 0950 <acronym title="Indian Airlines">IC</acronym> 812 LKO 1035 DEL 1130 <acronym title="In...
Jump to postJust walk pushing your trolley!
It is barely 400 metres. No bus service or autos (no need for it). Only thing u have have to come out of the exit and then walk on the pathway in front of the building.
It is a breeze! MAA airport is currently one of the best in India.
BRAND <acronym title="New Orleans - Lakefront (NEW / KNEW), USA - Louisiana">NEW</acronym> <acronym title="Irtysh-Avia (Kazakhstan)">IT</acronym> MAY <acronym title="Aircompany Tavria-Mac (Ukraine)">BE</acronym> But these are leased a/c , 5 319 are to be leased from CIT, the first ones are just arri...
Jump to postSo which will be the first INDIAN A319 route?
The floor is open ....
Let the guessing game get underway.......
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Jump to postFlying off Course deals with the MICRO aspects of Airline Management - AIrline Business should (if its predcessor - the 1st edition is anything to go by) should deal with the MACRO issues. Dont automatically assume that just because the title or cover page of a book does not have the word "airline m...
Jump to postIs it "Flying off course" or is it "Airline Business"? Both are by the same author.
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Jump to postIf you want that Rs 500 ticket (Rs 721 incl of taxes) here is the time. Lot of seats in Feb 2006 to a number of DN destinations. The ones I could find were TRV MAA, COK MAA and MAA BLR. I wanted a TRV BLR ticket on 22nd Feb return 25th Feb. Deccan had quoted 1779 (excl of tax) each way , but then I ...
Jump to postRead the chapter on marketing (as a well as the other related chapters such as pricing) in Prof Rigas Donganis's book "Flying off Course"
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Jump to postThe increased Indian capacity is not permanent. It is is due to the "winter open skies" by the India govt. Services will come back to normal levels by Feb06 (unless govt extends the "open skies").
Jump to postMadrid and berlin are defintie. Should be starting in another few days!
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