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AIRLINES
Domestic travel increases during January to
April by 22% this year as compared to the same period in 2009, says DGCA
The statistics
published by the DGCA office unveiled that passengers carried by domestic
airlines from January to April were 16.28 million as against 13.34 million
in the corresponding period of year 2009. This made a growth of + 22.05 per
cent. The total domestic passengers carried by the scheduled airlines of
India in the month of April were 4.19 million. The figure for the month of
March was 3.90 million. The break-up for the month of April, is as follows:
Kingfisher .90 million, Jet Airways .77 million, Air India (domestic) .76
million, IndiGo .66 million, Spice Jet .53 million, Jet Lite .31 million, Go
Air .25 million and Paramount .01 million.
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AI flies record 50,308 passengers on May 16
for the first time post merger of Air India and Indian Airlines
National
carrier, Air India, flew a record number of 50,308 passengers on its entire
network of domestic and international stations on May 16, 2010. While a
total of 32,456 passengers flew on IC coded flights, the international
passenger carriage notched up by Air India and Air India Express flights
totalled 17,852. The passenger carriage on the IC network of flights is a
record figure that has been achieved for the first time; post the merger of
erstwhile Air India and Indian Airlines in August 2007.
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Jet Airways domestic traffic grows by 26%
during Q4
Robust demand for
air travel in the domestic market helped Jet Airways post a 26.3 per cent
increase in its domestic traffic for Q4 which ended in March 2010. The seat
factor recorded 8.3 percentage point growth and came in at 72.9 per cent,
compared to 64.6 per cent during the same period last year. On its
international operations, the airline achieved a record 81.6 per cent seat
factor against 75.3 per cent during the same period last year.
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SpiceJet to expand its international services
on four destinations
SpiceJet, India’s
leading low fare airline is all set to commence its international flight by
July 2010 as it completes five years of operation in India this month.
Starting July, the carrier will make its international debut connecting
Colombo with one of its South India hub followed by Dhaka from Kolkata,
Kathmandu from Delhi and Male from Mumbai in the subsequent months. SpiceJet
will fly daily to all four destinations.
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AIRPORT
DIAL CEO appointed as director, Airports
Council International for Asia Pacific region
PS Nair, chief executive
officer (CEO) of Delhi International Airport (DIAL), has been elected as a
director of Airports Council International (ACI) Asia Pacific Regional Board
for a three year term. Considered as the voice of the world’s airports, ACI
works to foster cooperation throughout the air transport industry. It has
575 members operating over 1633 airports in 179 countries and territories.
Nair has 33 years of experience in airport management encompassing
operations, commercial and cargo, infrastructure planning and development.
He had been the CEO of GMR Hyderabad International Airport Limited (GHIAL)
and Board member of the Airports Authority of India as well as the airport
director of Thiruvananthapuram, Mumbai and Delhi airports.
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ASSOCIATION
IATO sends fresh proposals to MOT for
organising new roadshows this year in key markets
Indian Association
of Tour Operators has sent fresh proposals to the Ministry of Tourism,
Government of India, for fresh trade roadshows to be organised in some of
the key markets this year like East Europe, China, Syria and Australia. IATO
in association with MOT and
GOI conducted about 22 roadshows last year in the key source markets
worldwide to revive the declining foreign tourist arrivals in the aftermath
of global financial crisis. Confirmation from MOT in this regard is awaited.
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TECHNOLOGY
Agents on Galileo and Worldspan platform to
benefit from acquisition of sprice.com
Travelport, one of the world’s leading global
distribution system (GDS) providers, on 19 May completed the acquisition of
Singapore-based Sprice Pte, which owns and operates the hotel and travel
search engine Sprice.com. As a consequence of the deal, Travelport will
significantly expand its hospitality offering by providing Galileo and
Worldspan-connected agents with access to Sprice’s portfolio of over 240,000
international hotel properties, as well as a comprehensive suite of hotel
reviews, merchandising options and comparison tools.
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