Kingfisher Airline daily service between Mumbai and Srinagar and direct daily service between Delhi and Srinagar

This new route will provide convenient service for business and leisure travelers alike. Kingfisher Airlines has launched these connections at the right time as more and more people from Mumbai and Delhi look to retreat to the cooler climes of Srinagar. With the launch of these new routes, Kingfisher Airlines will offer more than 70 flights daily connecting 16 cities. The finest experience in Indian skies - Kingfisher First is also being offered on these flights to cater to the upper-end of the air travel segment as well.

Commenting on the launch of these new routes, Dr. Vijay Mallya, Chairman and CEO, Kingfisher Airlines Limited said, "With the launch of this sector we have expanded our network further up North and provided our Delhi and Mumbai guests a solution to beat the heat in Kingfisher style. Kingfisher Airlines has completed a successful year of operations in the Indian skies, with a lot of firsts to its credit. We now service 16 cities across India and I assure you there`s much more to come."

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kingfisher airline sand Malaysia Airlines to join oneworld alliance

Malaysia Airlines is to join oneworld, adding one of aviation's most frequent award winners to the world's leading quality airline alliance.

Malaysia Airlines was unanimously elected a oneworld member designate by the Chief Executives of the alliance's member airlines, at a meeting on the sidelines of IATA's 2011 World Air Transport Summit, which opens in Singapore today.

A formal alliance membership agreement will be completed soon.

Malaysia Airlines is expected to start flying as part of oneworld late next year.

As it prepares for its alliance membership, Malaysia Airlines intends to develop bilateral links with a number of oneworld's established partners, who include some of the biggest and best names in the airline industry. It already code-shares with oneworld partners Cathay Pacific and Royal Jordanian.

When it becomes part of oneworld, its customers will gain access to the alliance's truly global network. It will expand oneworld's global coverage to almost 950 destinations in 150 countries, served by a combined fleet of more than 2,600 aircraft operating some 10,000 flights a day and carrying 358 million passengers a year.

Three established oneworld member airlines currently serve Malaysia, with Cathay Pacific, Japan Airlines and Royal Jordanian flying to Kuala Lumpur, and Cathay Pacific also to Penang and, through its Dragonair affiliate, Kota Kinabalu. Opportunities for expanding the alliance's coverage of the country will be explored as Malaysia Airlines prepares to join.

Royal Caribbean International and Kingfisher Airlines announce strategic alliance

Royal Caribbean International and Kingfisher Airlines have formed an alliance that will offer customers conveniently bundled vacation packages as well as enhanced member benefits for members of King Club, Kingfisher Airlines’ loyalty program.

Kingfisher Airlines is one of India’s market-leading airlines and is a member-elect of the world’s leading quality airline alliance, oneworld. Royal Caribbean International is one of the largest cruise lines in the world, offering vacations to more than 260 ports around the world.

“Working together, we can offer a number of synergies and new benefits to our Royal Caribbean International guests, and to Kingfisher customers,” explains Michael Bayley, Executive Vice President of International for Royal Caribbean Cruises, Ltd. “India is a key market for us, and we look forward to expanding our brand presence there and introducing people to the world of cruising.”

"At King Club, our vision is to deliver a bouquet of unmatched and innovative benefits across the world to our members, in collaboration with leading national and international brands,” said Ms. Anshu Sarin, Vice President of Guest Loyalty and Kingfisher Holidays at Kingfisher Airlines Ltd. “The alliance with Royal Caribbean International is yet another initiative that will expand the range of exciting and exclusive benefits we offer our King Club guests.”

This is the first time Royal Caribbean has entered into a strategic alliance of this magnitude in the Asia-Pacific region, where the Legend of the Seas sails out of Singapore and Hong Kong, and Brilliance of the Seas is home-ported in Dubai seasonally. Kingfisher Airlines flies to all three of these embarkation ports from cities throughout India and its tour division, Kingfisher Holidays, conveniently bundles vacation packages that include both a Royal Caribbean cruise and airfare for the Kingfisher Airlines guests.

To celebrate the new partnership, Kingfisher Airlines is launching an online sweepstakes for its King Club members, which will give one lucky couple from India a free 4-night Isles of Southeast Asia cruise on Legend of the Seas departing from Singapore on May 23, 2011. The 2,074-passenger Legend of the Seas offers guests Broadway-style musicals in the theatre, themed parties, a Vegas style casino, drinks in the panoramic Viking Crown Lounge and much more. Furthermore, the winning couple will receive round-trip flights from Kingfisher Airlines.

Another advantage of the alliance is that Kingfisher Airlines’ King Club members will earn miles when they book a qualifying Royal Caribbean International cruise. For example, members will earn 1,500 King Club miles when booking a balcony stateroom on a 4- to 5-night cruise or 2,500 miles for a 6- to 8-night cruise in a Junior Suite. When booking for a group, the King Club member who reserves and pays for the stateroom will receive the miles. Members can redeem their miles for upgrades and free airline tickets.

Kingfisher Airlines connect Mumbai to Kolhapur, New Delhi to Pantnagar, Jabalpur to Indore

Kingfisher Airlines, India's only Five star airline rated by Skytrax, today announced the launch of nine new flights on its domestic network. Kingfisher Airlines becomes the only airline in India to offer flight services between Mumbai-Kolhapur, New Delhi-Pantnagar, and Jabalpur- Indore. In addition, Kingfisher Airlines has also introduced direct flights between Mumbai and Thiruvanthapuram. The new flights will offer the Kingfisher Red service, and bookings for all flights are now open. The Kingfisher Red service features Sky Treats — an exclusive gourmet cuisine service at affordable prices, reading material, frequent flier privileges and multiple check-in options.

Commenting on the launch of these new routes, Mr. Manoj Chacko, Executive Vice President, Commercial, Kingfisher Airlines Limited said, "Kingfisher Airlines is always looking for opportunities to improve connectivity. The launch of these nine new flights will further strengthen our presence in the country as the airline with the largest domestic route network."

With the launch of these flights, Kingfisher Airlines aims at enhancing the travel experience for guests can who can now avail of easy onward connectivity to other cities in the Kingfisher Airlines network via Mumbai and New Delhi.

Flight No	Origin	Destination	Departs	Arrives	Frequency
IT 4113	Mumbai	Kolhapur	10:00am	11:05am	Mon, Wed, Fri, Sun
IT 4114	Kolhapur	Mumbai	11:35am	12:45pm	Mon, Wed, Fri, Sun
IT 4363	New Delhi	Pantnagar	1:05pm	2:05pm	Tue, Thu, Sat, Sun
IT 4364	Pantnagar	New Delhi	2:35pm	3:40pm	Tue, Thu, Sat, Sun
IT 3137	Mumbai	Trivandrum	12:15pm	2:15pm	Mon, Wed, Fri, Sun
IT 3138	Trivandrum	Mumbai	2:45pm	4:45pm	Mon, Wed, Fri, Sun
IT 3147	Mumbai	Jabalpur	4:15pm	5:30pm	Daily
IT 3147	Jabalpur	Indore	6:00pm	7:00pm	Daily
IT 3147	Indore	Mumbai	7:55pm	9:10pm	Daily

Air IndiaTen Day Silver and Platinum Pass

In a move that will delight passengers and provide air travel at competitive and affordable rates, Air India today launched a short term promotion scheme, Silver and Platinum Pass, for passengers in its domestic network. The Silver and Platinum Pass, which will be valid for ten days, is being offered in 2 variants for unlimited travel in economy and executive class on the domestic sectors of the national carrier.

Passengers buying the “Silver Pass” can fly on economy class to any domestic sector of their choice at an attractive fare of Rs 30,000 while passengers who purchase the “ Platinum Pass” can travel in executive class to any domestic destination at a fare Rs 50,000. This fare is inclusive of taxes.

The Silver and Platinum Passes are available for sale at the offices of Air India and its approved travel agents within India from June 15 to July15, 2011. They will be valid for travel up to September 25, 2011. The day of commencement of the journey will be treated as the first day and ten days will be counted from the date of the commencement of the journey for determining travel validity.

“Our effort is to provide our passengers with the most competitive prices while ensuring the best customer service” said the AI spokesperson, while expecting passengers to make maximum use of this bonanza.

Air India operates to 63 domestic destinations and has a network of 33 international destinations with a fleet comprising of Airbus A319, A320, A310, A330 Boeing B-737 800, B-777 apart from ATR-42 and CRJ aircraft.

For more information on attractive schemes passengers can also contact the toll free number 1800 180 1407 or log on to www.airindia.in.

Air India signs MoU with Slovenia’s Adria Airways

A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed between Air India, Adria Airways and Aerodrome Ljubljana, in the presence of Hon’ble Ministers of Civil Aviation of the Governments of the Republic of India and Slovenia in New Delhi, today.

This MoU will usher a new era in the field of Civil Aviation between India and Slovenia. It would forge greater co-operation between Air India and Adria Airways in view of aircraft compatibility, with the fleet of Airbus and CRJ aircraft types, and complementary network.

The MoU will pave the way for Adria Airways to access Air India’s network, by generating traffic beyond Delhi, and likewise, provide Air India with access to the East European market.

It will also provide for better operability and commercial viability, and contribute towards yield improvements.

Presently, Adria Airways provides feed over Frankfurt / Munich and their hubs from the Balkans to North America of above 400,000 passengers per year. Likewise, their existing passenger’s potential of 130,000 passengers between India and Eastern Europe. With the signing of the MoU both Air India and Adria Airways aim to tap this potential after shorthly signing a “Code Share Agreement”.

Air India is looking at operations to Ljubljana Airport in view of the expected benefits flowing from the aforementioned, and also due to the cargo potential movement via surface transport across Europe brought by air operations to Ljubljana airport.

The MoU was signed by Shri Arvind Jadhav, IAS, CMD of Air India on behalf of Air India in the presence of the respective Ministers for Civil Aviation and Transport.

Air India to get the required fuel to operate all its flights

* The OMCs have been directed to supply complete fuel requirement of Air India for the next three months so that the national carrier can operate all its flights that got curtailed / cancelled recently.

* There will be a moratorium for three months and Air India will be allowed to uplift additional fuel worth Rs one crore in the next three months.

* Air India will continue to pay the OMCs Rs 16 crore per day, as decided earlier

* The additional requirement of fuel would be around 200 KL

* This decision was taken in a meeting between Mr Vyallar Ravi, Union Minister for Civil Aviation, and Mr Jaipal Reddy, Union Minister for Petroleum, today. The meeting was attended by senior officers of both the ministries and CMD Air India.

Air India flights connects Kanpur – Kolkata

Air India today introduced a new flight connecting Kanpur to Kolkata in its sustained efforts to strengthen connectivity between major cities of the country. Air travellers from Kanpur will now have a non-stop service to Kolkata eliminating the need to travel to Lucknow or any other city for connecting to the West Bengal capital and gateway to north-east.

The inaugural flight was flagged off from Kanpur’s Chakeri Airport by Hon’ble Minister for Civil Aviation Shri Vayalar Ravi and Hon’ble Minister of Coal Shri Sriprakash Jaiswal after a simple ceremony to facilitate the passengers. Air India is also offering special fares for the flight which will further help in promoting the sector and bring it close to the metros of Delhi and Kolkata.

The flight will be operated by Alliance Air, a subsidiary of Air India with a 70 seater CRJ-700 jet aircraft. The new flight AI 9801/9802 will be operated on all days except Sundays on the route Delhi-Kanpur-Kolkata and back.

The flight AI 9801 will leave Delhi at 1020 hrs and reach Kanpur at 1120 hrs, depart from Kanpur at 1150 hrs arriving Kolkata at 1320 hrs, The return flight AI 9802 will leave Kolkata at 1400 hrs reaching Kanpur at 1530 hrs, depart from Kanpur at 1600 hrs to arrive back at Delhi at 1700 hrs.

Jet Airways to commence city check-in service at three Delhi Airport Metro Express Line (DAMEPL) City Terminals, effective June 10, 2011

Effective 1600 hrs on June 10, 2011, Jet Airways, India's premier international airline, will commence its city check-in service for guests travelling on the airline's domestic services, at three Delhi Airport Metro Express Line city terminals- namely the New Delhi, Shivaji Stadium and Dhaula Kuan Stations.

The Delhi Airport Metro Express Line is the express metro connection between Indira Gandhi International Airport - Terminal 3 and downtown Delhi, similar to the metro link between Hong Kong International Airport and the city. The City Check-in (CCI) as a value-added service is being introduced to the Airport Metro Express Line‘s (AMEL) at the three City Airport Terminals (CAT)- namely New Delhi Station and Shivaji Stadium Stations with check-in baggage and Dhaula Kuan Station without check-in baggage.

A special CCI identification label and baggage tag will also be put on guest boarding passes and check-in bags respectively. Jet Airways will accept passengers and baggage not earlier than 6 hours and not later than 2 hours and 30 minutes before the scheduled departure of its flights.

Guests using this facility, however, must report at the Jet Airways Terminal 3 Domestic departure Gates 30 minutes before departure. Baggage will accordingly reach the Indira Gandhi Terminal 3 baggage conveyor belt area. All baggage rules as followed presently at the Indira Gandhi International Airport will continue at the check-in facilities at the Metro stations.

 Mr. Sudheer Raghavan, Chief Commercial Officer, Jet Airways (I) Ltd: said, “Jet Airways is pleased to announce the commencement of its city check-in services at three DAMEPL terminals, effective June 10, 2011.The airline's guests in Delhi using the city's efficient Metro service may now check-in for their flights at the Metro airport terminals itself, ensuring a more comfortable, seamless and convenient travel experience for its guests."

Jet Airways will also introduce Metro express line city check-ins for its international services from Delhi on the receipt of the requisite clearances from regulatory authorities.

Jet Airways creates history in the Indian Aviation Industry by flying two million guests in May 2011

Capitalising on the improvement in Global Business environment and the Holiday Season, Jet Airways Group created history in the Indian aviation industry by flying a record 2 million guests in May 2011. This marks the highest number of passengers carried by any airline of Indian origin on its domestic and international network.

Jet Airways flew a record 1.55 million guests on its domestic and international network; while JetLite flew an equally impressive 0.47 million guests to assist the Jet Airways Group log this truly unique milestone in the Indian Aviation sector.

In the domestic market, the annual holiday season lifted domestic passenger traffic for Jet Airways by 17%, as compared to the same period last year. The growth in International passenger traffic saw a similar 17% increase, reflecting a growing passenger demand for the airline’s award-winning International product, not to mention the increasing impact of Jet Airways’ International codeshares and introduction of new routes as well as strategic marketing and network initiatives.

Mr. Nikos Kardassis, Chief Executive Officer, Jet Airways (I) Ltd said, “Besides helping further consolidate our leadership position in Indian skies, this new milestone of flying 2 million guests further reiterates the fact that Jet Airways, Jet Airways Konnect and JetLite have all catered to distinct  passenger segments. Thus, it has been the Group’s ability to fully anticipate customer and market requirements and consequently customize its product to cater to these requirements that has helped Jet Airways stay ahead. I am certain that our focus to deliver customer delight will further help Jet Airways build on its industry benchmarks of convenience and comfort for its guests.”

Jet Airways to operate an additional 10 integrated check-in counters for International Guests at Indira Gandhi International Airport

In an effort to ensure additional convenience for its guests travelling internationally, Jet Airways has started operating an additional 10 integrated check-in counters at island M of the new terminal 3 at Indira Gandhi International Airport. The additional 10 check-in counters are for the airlines’ international flights as listed below and guests are requested to enter the Departure terminal from Gate No. 7 of the Terminal 3 (IGI).

Flight No. Route Departure Time Arrival Time 9W 264 Delhi - Kathmandu 6:30 8:15 9W 018 Delhi - Singapore 8:45 17:05 9W 064 Delhi - Bangkok 12:15 18:00 9W 272 Delhi - Dhaka 12:25 15:15 9W 142 Delhi - Milan 12:30 18:00 9W 262 Delhi - Kathmandu 12:50 14:45 9W 122 Delhi - London 13:45 18:30 9W 258 Delhi - Colombo 14:10 17:45 9W 548 Delhi - Dubai 19:30 21:25 9W 554 Delhi - Doha 19:50 21:20 9W 582 Delhi - Abu Dhabi 21:30 23:35

International S2

Flight No. Route Departure Time Arrival Time S2 501 Delhi - Kathmandu 12:00 13:45

Importantly, though guests flying to Hong Kong by 9W 78 and 9W 230 to Brussels / Toronto will need to continue to use the counters at island “D” for check in, as done currently.

With the addition of the 10 integrated check-in counters, the Jet Airways Group now manages over 42 integrated check-in counters for the comfort and convenience of its guests, located at islands C, D and M for both domestic and international travel. All of which have significantly helped reduce check-in time for the airline’s guests.

Jet Airways join Arab Air Carriers Organization (AACO) as Partner Airline

Jet Airways, India’s premier international airline, has joined AACO as the first Partner Airline of this regional airline association. The partnership which was simultaneously announced in Beirut and Mumbai will provide the Jet Airways and the Arab airline members of AACO, with opportunities of creating synergies through the various joint projects under AACO, in areas such as fuel management, ground services, safety initiatives, and training to name some of the areas.

Mr. Nikos Kardassis, Chief Executive Officer of Jet Airways, said, “With our growing presence in the middle east, an opportunity to partner with Arab Air Carriers Organization (AACO) is an important one. This association is strategic to our continued success in this region. We are indeed looking forward to working with AACO on their various joint projects and initiatives.”

Mr. Abdul Wahab Teffaha, Secretary General of AACO said on this momentous event, “AACO was able to develop during the past years a strong presence amongst associations through the establishment of joint projects, which help member airlines to achieve better economies of scale and scope. Jet Airways is a formidable airline with very high quality of service and expanding global network based in one of the most vibrant and promising markets of the world. The synergies of the cooperation between Arab airlines and Jet Airways will open new horizons for the parties concerned. AACO is proud that Jet Airways has chosen to be the 1st of its Partner Airlines.”