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AIRLINES
British Airways invests £100 million to
introduce luxury cabin 'First' for Indian travellers
British Airways’ recently
acquired £100-million luxurious First cabin landed in Mumbai earlier this
month onboard BA 199 before departing on its return flight for London
Heathrow. This is the first time that Indian travellers will be able to
experience the luxurious new service in India. With stiff competition in
industry, the carrier plans to re-establish its position as a global premium
airline with an investment of £100 million.
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AGENTS
Travel Services International develops
B2B portal for travel industry
Travel Services
International (TSI) has developed
Tsi.travel, a multi-panel reservation and booking engine that would
manage the requirements of the travel industry. The services offered include
GDS, API integration with LCCs and direct connectivity with some
international airline carriers.
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CIVIL AVIATION
DGCA orders airlines to abide by the Rule 135
(1) for resolving commission issue
With
a view to resolve the commission issue, the DGCA (director general of civil
aviation) on March 11 issued an order to all the airlines to abide by the
Rule 135 (1), which requires airlines to determine tariff by definition
(including commission payable to agents).
Talking exclusively to TravTalk, RK Maheshwari, joint director general civil
aviation, informed that the DGCA office has given time to the airlines till
March 18 to follow the order. He, however, clarified that the airlines may
come to the DGCA office if they have any further query in this regard. He
also made it clear that DGCA would not support any ‘model’ like ‘transaction
fee’, which is above and over the published tariff.
Meanwhile, all
the travel agents associations welcomed the order and are expecting its
early implementation.
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DGCA to introduce separate corridors for
helicopter services in Delhi and Mumbai
The
Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has decided to introduce
separate Visual Flight Route (VFR) corridors at the Delhi and Mumbai
Airports to ensure safe and efficient operations of helicopters. This move
will encourage helicopter services and heli tourism industry. The demand was
long pending and also recommended by KAW Committee report on civil aviation.
For this purpose, the DGCA had asked the Airports Authority of India (AAI)
to design the VFR for helicopter routings. Suggestions were also invited
from all helicopter operators.
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MOT
Deputy Speaker of House of Commons honours
Incredible India with Campaign of the Year award in London
The Incredible India
recently won the Campaign of the year award at the Asian Voice Political and
Public Life Awards. Jagdish Chander, director, India Tourism London,
received this prestigious award from Sylvia Heal, deputy speaker, House of
Commons.
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NTO
Tourism New Zealand registers 27% increase in
Indian arrivals
Tourism New
Zealand experienced a slowdown in January and February last year but
witnessed a complete revival and healthy growth in arrivals from March to
December from India. The 2009 holiday arrivals from India to New Zealand
were up by 27 per cent compared to 2008 with a total of 25, 336 Indian
arrivals.
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TECHNOLOGY
Bird Group launches Segway Transporter
in India to simplify personal travel at airports and large industrial
campuses
Bird Group has recently announced the launch of
zero-emission, lithium battery operated Segway Personal Transporter (PT)
vehicle in India, partnering with Segway Inc. Dubbed as Bird
Segway in India, it will simplify personal travel in places that are
impractical and will benefit airports, police patrolling, tourism purposes,
large industrial campuses and shopping malls.
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