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Jet
Airways announced on Monday about the launch of an additional flight on Hyderabad-Dammam Mangaluru-Sharjah route from this August. Dammam will be the second city in
the Gulf region to be connected with Hyderabad by Jet Airways after Abu Dhabi,
said by Jet Airways. Jet Airways will establish narrow-body Boeing 737-800 next generation aircraft in a two-cabin class business and economy for the new flights. The demand to the Gulf
regions is growing speedily with over 32 lakh people travelling to various
countries from India. New services
will cushion Jet Airways offering to the Arabian Gulf region, further by growing airline network and materially inflate connectivity for passengers.
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By efficient functioning and cutting of operational costs has turned Air India from a
loss-making airline into an operational profit unit, the Lok Sabha
was informed on Tuesday. By cutting its operational
expenses by almost 11%, Air India has turned from a INR 2,636 crores loss
making unit in 2014-15 to INR 8 crore operational profit unit in
2015-16, Ashok Gajapathi Raju (Civil Aviation Minister) said while replying
to the debate on demand for grant for his ministry. He also said that Air India
joined Star Alliance in the Year-2014 which has helped to integrate better
with the international civil aviation market. Raju said that by
2020 Air India's fleet size is likely to grow by about 100 aircraft to about
232 and of this 28 more aircraft will be added by January 2018.
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A video produced by British Airways to promote the airline’s routes between the U.K. and India has taken off online.
The advert tells the story of a flight attendant making her first trip to India and falling in love with the country after an elderly woman befriends her on the flight and invites her home.
The tagline for the commercial, which is inspired by a true story and has been viewed over 350,000 times on the airline’s verified YouTube channel, is “Loving India back since 1924.”
Around 12% of tourists arriving in India in December 2015, were British, according to the latest figures from the Ministry of Tourism, making the U.K. the third-largest source of foreign tourists that month after the U.S. and Bangladesh. In the same period in 2014, the U.K. had the second-highest percentage of visitors to India after America.
Some of India’s main tourism markets have advised citizens to exercise caution while visiting India after attacks on female tourists in the country in recent years. In response, India’s Ministry of Tourism began a campaign to try to improve women’s safety and asked all state governments to deploy tourist police to assist travelers in distress.
Imperial Airways, which became British Airways in 1974, first began exploring air routes to India in 1924.
The first service between London and Karachi, in what is now Pakistan, started in 1929 but it wasn’t all by air because Italy wouldn’t allow British aircraft to enter via France and flying over the Alps was not deemed practical.
The journey began in London with a flight via Paris to Basel in Switzerland.
From there passengers, who paid £130, went by train to Genoa in Italy then onto Rome in a seaplane or flying boat via Naples, Corfu, Athens, Suda Bay in Crete, Tobruk in Libya and Alexandria in Egypt.
Finally, the journey was completed by a DH66 Hercules, with stops in the Middle East, including in Baghdad, before arrival in Karachi.
By December that year, the service had reached Delhi, according to information on the British Airways website.
