Air India logged on to SITA Passenger service system

Announcing the double migration ofAir India and Indian Airlines toSITA’s Horizon passenger servicessystem (PSS), Air India said it willnow operate as a single unifiedcarrier paving the way for the entryinto the Star Alliance in mid-2010.Foreseeing improvement in itsrevenue channel due to the PSS,Arvind...

Anantara Kihavah Villas wins HIDEAWAYS Awards

Anantara Kihavah Villas has beennamed ‘Newcomer of the Year’ by theprestigious travel magazineHIDEAWAYS at an event that recentlytook place in Berlin. The award honorsjust three new, extraordinary andfascinating hotels and resorts aroundthe world. The winners are chosen bythe HIDEAWAYS editorial...

Kerala High Court accepts MoCA plea

At the request of Director of theMinistry of Civil Aviation Mrs.Shubha Thakur presented throughthe Asst Solicitor General of IndiaMr. P. Parameswaran Nair, Hon.High Court of Kerala has grantedtime till the reopening of Courts on23 May 2011 to file complianceaffidavit in the Contempt of Courtcase following...

Airline share prices down by 10% this year

Time to move ahead !

FIVE years ago the travel and tourism industry decided to acquire its ownInternet domain sTLD* called .travel. ( Sponsored TopLevel Domain)This was done after IATA had on its own initiated the process with ICANN. Togive the project greater credibility a number of travel agency and tourismentities joined...

Lufthansa employees in coin fraud case

A Lufthansa flight attendantstruggling to lift her bagled to the discovery of a 6-millioneuro ($8.4 million) coin fraud.The customs officer who stoppedthe stewardess in early 2010 found housands of one and two eurocoins in her bag, Bild newspaperreported.T h e i n c i d e n t s p a r k e d a ninvestigation...

Japan Operations: UN Confirms Safety

The International Air TransportAssociation (IATA) welcomedconfirmation from six UnitedN a t i o n s ( U N ) a g e n c i e smonitoring Japan’s damagedFukushima Daiichi nuclear plantthat there is no health ortransportation safety hazard.The UN statement also confirmedthat screening for radiation...

Japan Airlines fined US$5.81 million for price fixing on security & fuel surcharge

Japan Airlines was fined US$5.81million for breaching Australianprice-fixing laws, reported DowJones Newswires.The Australian Competition andConsumer Commission said in astatement JAL admitted to makingand giving effect to illegal pricefixingunderstandings with otherinternational airlines that each ofthem...

American Airlines launches self-tagging at Austin Int’l Airport

American Airlines have launchedself-tagging at Austin-BergstromInternational Airport recently. Theservice is offered at nine kiosks forall American Airlines, domestic andinternational flights, out of Austin.“This is a major milestone for theFast Travel Program. Self-taggingwas not allowed in the US....

Etihad softens their stand

  P.B Boss For changing return Travel dates ontickets issued abroad, EtihadAirlines had, moving on their ownwill, applied levy of Rs. 2,000 foradults and Rs. 900 for infants.Worse still was that such changescould be effected only at Etihad’sofficial counters. Reschedulingreturn sector turned...