INTL| JOBS| FnB| Food and Beverage Managers - Ever Dreamt Working on an Airplane!

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• YOUR Contact for Europe: Sander Willemsen

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We are now seeking several Food and Beverage Managers to direct its in-flight operations for the business and first class. This position is based in Middle East.


You will manage all aspects of food and service presentation to in-flight guests. You are a key member of the on board service team who will manage all Food and Beverage activities with the ability to plan and implement food delivery and service standards during the flight. Some of the key attributes are:



* Degree or Diploma qualified in hospitality.
* Minimum of 5-8 years in 5 star hotels as Assistant Food and Beverage, Executive Chef or Restaurant Manager.
* Excellent understanding food serving standards and staffing levels.
* Highly tuned communications skills.
* Proven track in food and beverage in leading resorts.
* Fluency in English.



The ideal profile will demonstrate a proactive approach and strive to maintain superior client relations and promote attention to food service and presentation. Rounding off the successful candidate, you will be self-motivated, client focused with the inter-personal skills to operate across all levels and functions of the organisation, especially with guests external parties.

This is an exciting opportunity with a progressive Airline Group that provides career growth and can fast track your aspirations.

APPLY ONLINE http://jobs.manhattangroup.com.au/app.php?jref=2161

Sander D. Willemsen
Managing Associate Europe

Manhattan Group
Lagestraat 31
6953 BB Dieren, The Netherlands
T: +31-313-841420 M: +31-6-43485388
SKYPE: sdwillemsen

JOBS| Ground staff

Ground staff:
To qualify, you need to meet these prerequisites:





Age: Under 25 years.
Weight : In propositions to height
Qualification : Graduate

Well groomed
A pleasant personality
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
Ready to work in shifts


e-mail us your resume along with a photograph (full-length and passport size) on career@jagsonairline.com or mail to the following addresses:
Delhi Jagson Airlines ltd.
12-E, Vandana Building,
11-Tolstory Marg, New Delhi-110001
2372 1593, 2372 1594, 2332 8579, 2332 8580,
2332 3949, 2373 0685
Delhi airport Jagson Airlines ltd.
Terminal - 1B, Domestic Airport, 
ph.# 65515132,25674898

JOBS| In-flight crew

An invitation for aspiring Cabin Crew. 


Your dream of world-class career with a leading airline has just got wings. With Jagson Airlines, the world-class flying experience in Indian skies.




What we are looking for ::
We look for young, dynamic females with the following mandatory requirement:
Age: Between 18-27 years.
Height (Bare foot) : 5.3''
Weight : In proposition to height
Qualification : HSC(10+2)
Other requirements : Clear Complexion Unblemished, Unscarred, etc.
Language Proficiency : Speaking, reading and writing in Hindi and English is compulsory
Nationality : Indian resident

e-mail us your resume along with a photograph (full-length and passport size) on career@jagsonairline.com or mail to the following addresses:
Delhi Jagson Airlines ltd.
12-E, Vandana Building,
11-Tolstory Marg, New Delhi-110001
2372 1593, 2372 1594, 2332 8579, 2332 8580,
2332 3949, 2373 0685
Delhi airport Jagson Airlines ltd.
Terminal - 1B, Domestic Airport, 
ph.# 65515132,25674898

JOBS| CAREERS IN AVIATION | Cabin Crew

Livewel Aviation Services has been a leading name in the Indian aviation industry for over 18 years. we provide Ground handling Services to 8 domestic and 15 international airlines at multiple airport locations in India and abroad. we invite aspiring candidates to be a part of our growth for positions at Mumbai International Airport.




DUTY MANAGER;--Should have more than3 years of airline or ground handling experience in providing passenger services including baggage handling with excellent communication skills, pleasing personality and willing to work in shifts.

CUSTOMER SERVICE ASSISTANT;-Female / Male-- Age 18-24 years:Freshers having a pleasing personality with good communication skills, fluency in English, HSC passed and willing to work in shifts.

CABIN CREW:-- Female/Male- age 18--24 tears; fresher with minimum qualification of HSC , having minimum height of 160 Cm's for female and 172 Cm's for male, weight as per airlines standards, should be fluent in English, pleasing personality and knowledge of a foreign language wuold be an added advantage, should hold a valid passport.

Walk in : at below mentioned address
LIVEWELAVIATION SERVICES
* C-8 Vishal Enclave, opp Metro PillarNo 416, Rajouri Garden New Delhi-110027Tel 011-45671100[10lines]
* D-38, South Extension[ part 1] 2nd and 3rd floor New Delhi110049 Tel 01140618100[10lines]
www,livewelaviation.com .

JOBS| Senior Cabin Crew (Females Only)

Cabin Crew (Females Only)





Experienced Female Cabin Crew with minimum 18 months of experience in any Indian Private carriers, with valid SEP. , Height proportionate with weight.

Please courier your details CV, clearly mentioning the position applied for at the top of the envelope to as well as on the top of the CV.

Head Human Resources and Administration
MDLR Airlines Pvt. Ltd.
MDLR House, SCO 2,3,4, Old Judicial Complex,
Sector-15, Gurgaon-122002,
Haryana, India
e-mail : careers@mdlrairlines.in

JOBS| Cabin Crew (Females Only)

Cabin Crew (Females Only)





Fresher (Minimum qualification - Graduates from any discipline), Fluent in English and Hindi, Height proportionate with weight.

Please courier your details CV, clearly mentioning the position applied for at the top of the envelope to as well as on the top of the CV.

Head Human Resources and Administration
MDLR Airlines Pvt. Ltd.
MDLR House, SCO 2,3,4, Old Judicial Complex,
Sector-15, Gurgaon-122002,
Haryana, India
e-mail : careers@mdlrairlines.in

NEWS| Kingfisher to fly from Bangalore to Dubai from next month

Liquor baron Vijay Mallya-led Kingfisher Airlines will start flying daily from India's technology hub Bangalore to Dubai from June 25.




The flight, using an A320 aircraft, will take off from Bangalore at 6.30 pm and land in Dubai at 8.55 pm local time while the return flight will leave Dubai at 11.30pm and reach Bangalore at 4.45 am, the airline's officials told the media during the Arabian Travel Market held recently here.

The launch was planned for March but had to be delayed because of the global economic slowdown, officials said, adding Kingfisher also plans to start flights to Abu Dhabi and a couple of other destinations in the Gulf region.

The airline has expanded its route network significantly since acquiring Air Deccan in 2007. Kingfisher has 87 aircraft in its fleet and has 438 flights daily to 72 destinations in India and abroad. It operates 27 direct flights to Indian destinations from Bangalore.
PTI/Economic Times

NEWS| Air India to launch daily Ahmedabad-Frankfurt flight

Air India is set to launch a daily direct flight from here to Frankfurt from June 1, the airline said Saturday.





Flight AI-120 Ahmedabad-Frankfurt, a Boeing 777-200 aircraft with a passenger capacity of 291, will depart the Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport at 2.05 a.m. June 1 and will reach the German city at 6.50 a.m. (local time).

The daily return flight will leave Frankfurt at 11.10 a.m. (local time) and reach Ahmedabad at 10.25 p.m., an Air India official said.

Air India had recently opened an operational hub for west-bound flights in Frankfurt, he added.

IANS/Silicon India

NEWS| New terminal takes off ahead of schedule at Lohegaon

A pleasant surprise awaited those who flew out of the city on Monday as they found themselves being asked to go through the new, spacious departure terminal at the Lohegaon Airport.




The new terminal was slated to be functional from May 15 but was made operational from Monday, four days ahead of schedule.
“I have made the new departure terminal fully operational from today. All passengers will now be routed through the new lounge, which is much bigger and more convenient. We will now be able to accommodate a significantly larger number of outgoing passengers,” said J P Mathur, officiating director, Airports Authority of India, Pune.
“I had gone to see off my daughter to Bangalore and came to know about the new terminal from a security man. I was advising my daughter to go to the regular check-in counter when the security guard overheard and directed us to the new terminal,” said V J Matthen, a central government officer.
Five of the eight airlines currently operating from the Pune airport have shifted to the new departure terminal, Mathur said. Jet Airways, Air India and Lufthansa are expected to move to the new lounge in around 10 day.

Raja Menon/ExpressIndia

NEWS| Paramount Airways to start daily flight from Chennai to Kolkataa

Paramount Airways has decided to introduce a second daily service from Chennai to Kolkata from May 14, 2009




, following the high demand for its recently launched Kolkata flight. The new daily service will offer increased flexibility and convenience, making it ideal for business travellers.

The service will offer connections to Coimbatore, Madurai, Hyderabad, Cochin, Pune, Ahmedabad and Goa. In a media statement issued on Monday, Paramount Airways managing director M Thiagarajan said, "In less than a month of operating our maiden flight to Kolkata, we are extending our services so swiftly." The airline is all set to repeat its business model in the north eastern sector as well.

Anuradha/Economic Times

NEWS| Air India may fly all economy class on domestic routes

Air India, the country’s flag carrier may turn into an all economy class airline on domestic routes, in an attempt to accommodate more coach class passengers and fill its planes.

The move is aimed at regaining market share in the domestic airline space ceded to rival airlines including some low cost carriers. The company also aims to complete the integration of Air India and Indian by the end of this year.

NEWS| Air India losses pile up to Rs 4,000 cr in 2008-09

National Aviation Company of India (NACIL), the holding company formed after the merger of Air India and Indian Airlines, has nearly doubled losses for 2008-09 to roughly Rs 4,000 crore from Rs 2,226 crore in the preceding fiscal.

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NEWS| Jet shuts down offices outside India, lays off staff

Jet Airways on Friday laid off 119 employees from its overseas base and 50 probationary cabin crew serving in the Indian skies




The fresh round of lay-offs came after the airline announced the closure of its overseas bases in Kuala Lumpur, Bangkok, Singapore for "cost-cutting measures''. TOI, in its edition on May 1, had reported about 60 cabin crew members being given the pink slip.
Sources said that more lay-offs are likely to take place as the cabin crew has been given a roster only till May 15. "Usually the crew is given a roster for the entire month. However, this time it has been limited to 15 days,'' said an official.
Confirming the move, a Jet airways spokesperson said, ""Jet Airways has announced the closure of its overseas crew bases in Kuala Lumpur, Singapore and Bangkok... Jet Airways will pay the crew severance payments in accordance with the regulations prescribed in the labour laws of the respective countries.''

Times of India

NEWS| Qatar offers inflight internet & sm

Single aisle Airbus fleet to be fitted with latest communications technology passengers to be able to browse internet, send SMS messages and emails.




Qatar Airways and OnAir today announced an agreement to install Mobile OnAir inflight passenger communications services on board the airline’s single-aisle fleet.

The agreement will see airline install the technology on all 22 single-aisle Airbus A319, A320 and A321 aircraft in the fleet as well as several new aircraft on order. The aircraft currently operate routes across the Middle East, India, Sri Lanka and across Europe.

Passengers will be able to stay connected inflight using their own mobile phones or BlackBerry-type devices to send and receive text messages and emails, and access the Internet. They will also be able to access the Internet using their own laptops fitted with GSM data cards.

NEWS| Jet Airways introduces all economy no-frills service

Jet Airways, India’s premier international airline will introduce a new all Economy service, Jet Airways Konnect starting May 08, 2009, on select routes in India.




Jet Airways Konnect is a new economy class service designed to meet the needs of the low fare segment. It will complement Jet Airways’ full service product, by providing a service that is better suited to cater to a market that desires an economically priced low fare product
Jet Airways Konnect offers a no-frills, economy class service where guests will be offered attractive and competitive low fares on specific routes.

The on ground and in flight service will be delivered by Jet Airways staff, the only difference will be that travellers will have to buy their meals on board.

Jet Airways Konnect will have dedicated aircraft for this service, the flight number range for this service will be unique and will help both guests and travel agents identify the class of service.

Guests can book flights either on the airline's website www.jetairways.com or through the call centers or Jet Airways’ city and ticketing offices. Travel Agents can book the service using the global distribution systems (GDS). All guests using Jet Airways Konnect will enjoy the accrual and redemption of JetPrivilege’s mileage points.

Sudheer Raghavan, Chief Commercial Officer, Jet Airways commented "Consumer demands are changing rapidly in a dynamic global environment, we believe the Jet Airways Konnect service will give us the flexibility and speed to deploy capacity to meet these changing trends .”
The Jet Airways Konnect Service will initially operate with two 737 and six ATR aircraft on sectors such as Chennai-Coimbatore, Chennai-Madurai, Chennai-Kochi, Mumbai-Ahmedabad, Mumbai-Bhopal, Mumbai-Udaipur, Bengaluru-Pune, Bengaluru-Mangalore.

PRESS RELEASE/Jet Airways

NEWS| Qatar Airways suspends flights to Nagpur

Qatar Airways, which has been operating a direct flight between Nagpur and Doha for the last two years, has decided to suspend the flight from May 15 due to poor load factor from the Indian city’s Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar International Airport.

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Qatar Airways will be the second airline to suspend its international operations from Nagpur after India’s state-run carrier Air India, which suspended its Hyderabad-Nagpur-Bangkok flight an year ago.

Qatar Airways launched its twice-weekly flights to Nagpur in September 2007. Initially, the flight received a tremendous response from passengers as it was the only flight with connections to cities like London, Washington, New York and Paris from Nagpur. However, for the last few months the global economic slowdown and the poor load factor due to rising air fares had badly affected operations of the flight, sources added.

A senior official of the airline said on condition of anonymity, “The flight was being operated with very poor load factor for the last few months. The airline has incurred losses in hundreds of thousands and is planning to withdraw the Nagpur-Doha flights permanently.”






Victor Ikoli/The Peninsula, Qatar

NEWS| Jet shuts down offices outside India, lays off staff

Jet has shut down its offices at Singapore, Kuala Lumpur and Bangkok and has issued a termination notice to the employees serving at these centres with effect from May 31.




Nearly 100 employees have been terminated and these employees includes expats and people who were recently inducted and were under probation — these employees are likely to be compensated with Rs 1.5 lakh each, which includes Rs 55,000 that the employees had to pay to the company for training when they joined the company.

On the salary delay, a Jet Airways spokesperson, when contacted, said that the employees get salaries in the first week of every month. The airline also said that they will help employees who have been terminated find a new job. It also clarified that its operations in these cities won’t be affected.

Neha Pandey/CNBC-TV18/Moneycontrol

NEWS| Air France passengers allege racial bias

Over 50 Indian passengers flying Air France had a "harrowing" time at Paris Airport after their aircraft developed a technical problem, and complained on Tuesday (May 12) on reaching Mumbai Airport that they were victims of "racial" profiling.




The passengers, who spent 28 hours in Paris, said they were confined to a lounge at the airport there from 10 PM on Sunday till 7 AM the next morning and given "hardly any food and water".

The passengers, on their way to Mumbai from the US via Paris, said while the foreigners were taken to hotels shortly after their plane returned to the Paris airport due to apparent technical problem following a four-hour flight, they were taken to the lounge and given just a bottle of water and a sandwich. Giving details of their "harrowing" time, one of the travellers, Vineeta Sengupta said, “No foreigner would have been treated like the way we were treated. People were lying down on the floor over there (at a place at the airport) where immigration takes place".

Accusing Air France of "racial" profiling, a girl passenger said that the officials there even had threatened that they would be handed over to the police if they did not stop protesting. Sengupta said the 53 to 54 Indian passengers were later "huddled out" of the airport on a "group visa", which the authorities could have provided much earlier, and taken to a hotel. No reason has officially been given for the delay.

The passengers, who were in transit and did not have a visa for Paris, said the flight--AF 218--took off from the French capital with 169 passengers and 12 crew on board but returned to the airport after just about four hours in flight. "The sandwich was so bad that one could not eat it," complained one of the travellers. "We had to beg for water. There was no information, no facility to even ring up".
12/05/09 Timesnow.tv

NEWS| Finnair to resume its Mumbai-Helsinki service effective

According to a PTI report, Finnair recently announced that it will resume its Mumbai-Helsinki service




According to a PTI report, Finnair recently announced that it will resume its Mumbai-Helsinki service effective October 18, 2009, indicating confidence that demand from business travellers for flights between Asia and Europe will increase. The airline which operates daily flight between New Delhi and Helsinki, had suspended service to Mumbai in March this year citing unfavourable economic conditions and overcapacity on Mumbai-Europe routes.

Kari Stolbow, Director (Indian Subcontinent), Finnair said, “We will re-start the service on October 18, 2009.”

TravelBizMonitor

NEWS| Salaries will be delayed: Jet airways

Naresh Goyal-owned Jet Airways has informed its employees that their salaries for April will be delayed by a few days. In an e-mail to the employees, Jet told them that instead of May 1, the pay will come early next week.




The airline has over 13,000 employees and the remunerations of highly paid ones was deducted recently.

Jet, which has ceded the top private airline slot in terms of market share to Vijay Mallya-owned Kingfisher, lost Rs 253 crore in 2007-08 and the loss in 2008-09 is expected to be much bigger. For instance, in October-December quarter of 2008, it lost Rs 214 crore. Salary accounts for nearly 12% of its operating costs.

In the wake of economic slowdown when travel has been badly hit, the airline like all others has done everything to stay afloat like reducing fleet sizes, cutting flights and salaries. Last year it laid of 1,900 employees and had to take them back after a lot of drama. A Jet spokesperson did not comment on the delatyed salary e-mail where it said the pay would come around May 5, calling it an internal matter of the company. In the past few months, some airlines have been delaying their salaries by many days if not defaulting on them.






Saurabh Sinha/Times of India

NEW FLIGHTS| Air India Express launches Chennai -AbuDhabi flights

Air India Express, the low-cost airline of the Indian national carrier Air India, has launched service on two routes from Abu Dhabi to Chennai and Tiruchirapally and has also increased the number of fights to Kochi to six per week from five per week.




Beginning April 30, Air India Express has been flying to Chennai and Tiruchirapally every Thursday and Saturday. The new routes will be serviced by a Boeing 737-800 in an Economy Class configuration.

Reiterating the airline's commitment to Abu Dhabi, Air India & Air India Express Executive Director (Middle East & Africa) Fali D Warden said: “With the introduction of direct air links from Abu Dhabi International Airport to Tiruchirapally in Tamil Nadu, we are confident that the new flights will be successful in attracting passengers not only from the immediate vicinity but from the nearby districts... "The sustained introduction of Air India Express services from Abu Dhabi reflects the growing importance which Air India attaches to this region”.

Press Trust Of India/Business Standard

NEWS| Paramount Airways to fly to 35 more cities by 2010

Ahead of its plans to fly to international locales, Paramount Airways, the Chennai-based premium service carrier, is launching services to various other destinations in the country.




The fully business-class airline is to commence services to 35 more cities, increasing its domestic routes to 50 by the end of 2010. It is to launch services to the northern region, including Delhi, and to the western and eastern parts, too.

“We are looking at having a strong domestic network, prior to starting our international operations. We are looking at connecting to every major airport in the country in a phased manner,” Paramount’s managing director, M Thiagarajan, told Business Standard here today.

Delhi is one of the new planned destinations and so are Imphal, Bhubaneswar, Ranchi, Bhopal, Nagpur, Porbander and other places in Gujarat. This is in addition to the earlier announced plans of launching services to Kolkata, Guwahati and Agartala, connecting these the south Indian cities of Chennai, Coimbatore and Kochi. Paramount will also add another 10 aircraft to its existing fleet of six planes.

Rajesh S Kurup/Business Standard

PEOPLE| Arvind Jadhav takes over as Air India chief

Arvind Jadhav Monday took over as the chairman and managing director of National Aviation Co (Nacil), which operates national carrier Air India.




A 1978 batch IAS officer of the Karnataka cadre, Jadhav was officially named for the post May 1. Prior to this, he was principal secretary of the Karnataka government's infrastructure development department.

He played an active role in introducing the public-private partnership (PPP) model to develop the Bangalore International Airport Ltd, a greenfield airport project.
Jadhav took charge from E.K. Bharat Bhushan, who was heading the aviation company for an interim period after the government, unhappy with the performance of Air India, removed the chairman Raghu Menon from the post last week.

However, the government is yet to decide on Menon's new role. Currently, he is on leave till late next month, said an Air India spokesperson.

The change at the helm has come in the backdrop of Air India's falling market share even though it is going through a major fleet expansion programme to induct 111 new Boeing and Airbus aircraft over the next few years.

Noor Khan/Samay Live

NEWS| SpiceJet eyes 5-year growth plan

At a time when aviation industry is bleeding and in deep trouble, Gurgaon-based low cost carrier SpiceJet has formed a separate internal team for analysing the growth path for the next five years and different targets for the carrier.




The team, headed by CEO Sanjay Aggarwal, is mulling whether the carrier should go for Boeing or Airbus fleets for its requirement over the next five years. It is also analysing cost cutting measures, and deliberating on its international foray and buyout of a local carrier. It is also working on the fare structure over the next quarter.

Aggarwal said the airline is chalking out plans for the next five years in view of the current downturn. “The decision on fleet will take few months more as it’s a long process,” he said. Currently, SpiceJet operates 19 Boeing planes.

SpiceJet was said to raise fares when Kingfisher and Jet Airways hiked fares by Rs 300 per ticket a fortnight back, but a sudden and steep 70% cut in Air-India fares changed the complete plan. “Competition is important and we will have to act according to competition. It has forced us not to increase airfares in the last fortnight, though we have increase fares in few selective routes,” Aggarwal said.

Mark Martin, senior advisor, KPMG, told ET that domestic carriers should go back to the board room and draw fresh strategies to weather the upcoming turbulence in the aviation sector. If they don’t act now, then tough times are waiting for them.

Mithun Roy/Economic Times

NEWS| Sarovar Hotels, IndiGo in marketing tie-up

Mumbai-based hotel chain operator Sarovar Hotels and budget airline carrier IndiGo Airlines today announced a marketing tie-up for frequent travellers.

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The arrangement will allow guests staying at select Sarovar Hotels across 26 destinations in India to avail a 10 per cent discount on their next travel booking with IndiGo.
While Indigo flyers can avail up to 25 per cent discount on published room tariff, 10 per cent discount on holiday stay packages and 10 per cent discount on restaurant dining at select Sarovar properties.

Pradeep Kalra, senior V-P, sales and marketing, Sarovar Hotels & Resorts said: "We have entered into a multi-dimensional tie-up with IndiGo Airlines, which will be mutually rewarding. The tie up will benefit travellers as they will now be saved of the hassle of finding a good place to stay at a convenient price."

Business Standard




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NEWS| SilkAir to fly five times a week to Hyderabad

Taking over from its parent airline SilkAir, the regional wing of Singapore Airlines, will start its five-day a week operations to Hyderabad from June 15, airline's officials said.






Singapore Airlines, which currently flies to Hyderabad thrice a week, would hand over its operations to SilkAir. The south Indian city is the fourth destination in the county after Kochi, Thiruvananthapuram and Coimbatore.

The transfer of operations would present customers a wider choice of flight times as SilkAir will offer five times weekly services to Hyderabad for a start.

This will be increased to a daily frequency during the Northern Winter Schedule from 26 October 2009. The flights are subject to governmental approvals and slot availability.
Indopia

NEWS| SpiceJet signs outsourcing deal with Boeing

Gurgaon-based budget carrier SpiceJet has hit upon an idea pioneered by Sunil Bharti Mittal in the telecom sector.




The company is all set to replicate Bharti's model of outsourcing several operations hoping to see similar miracles for the beleaguered airline.

SpiceJet, which spends between 5-10 per cent of its total operating cost on spares and servicing, has signed an outsourcing deal with Boeing.

As per the details of the agreement, the deal spares will now be purchased and inventory will be managed by Boeing. This will bring down SpiceJet's manpower and material costs substantially.

Airlines are doing everything in their power to keep their costs down and even though Spicejet's is trying to do the same, Boeing is very keen to finalise the deal for very different reasons.
Boeing's eagerness to help ease SpiceJet's burden may have been prompted by the airline's move to look at its rival Airbus for its fleet order.

Ashutosh Sinha and Arijit Banerjee/NDTV

NEWS| Foreign carriers look to India again

Some foreign carriers are once again looking at India as a destination, even as others continue to prune their connectivity to India. Air Arabia, the first low fare carrier in West Asia has added one flight each on Friday and Sunday from Delhi to Dubai, taking the total number of flights every week to nine.

SilkAir, the regional wing of Singapore Airlines, will commence operations to Hyderabad on 15 June 2009, taking over from Singapore Airlines which currently flies to this Indian city three times a week. However, Indian travel agents, who have been agitating against Singapore Airlines’ zero-commission policy, will extend their boycott to SilkAir.

For starters, SilkAir will offer five flights a week to Hyderabad against the current three being offered by Singapore Airlines. This will be increased to daily during the Northern Winter Schedule from 26 October 2009. The flights are subject to governmental approvals and slot availability.

A 20 April report from wire service Press Trust of India quoted Nordic airline Finnair as saying that would resume its Mumbai-Helsinki service starting 18 October, a sign of confidence that demand for business travel between Asia and Europe would increase.
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NEWS| Air India to operate additional flights

Air India will be operating additional flights on the Kolkata-Port Blair sector and Chennai-Port Blair sector this month, official sources said here on Tuesday.





Air India would operate additional flights on the Kolkata-Port Blair sector on May 8, 13, 18 and 22 while it would operate additional flight on the Chennai-Port Blair sector on May 11, 15, 21 and 25, sources said.
The Andaman and Nicobar administration had requested the Union Civil Aviationa ministry to instruct Air India to provide additional flights between Kolkata-Port Blair and Chennai-Port Bliar for a month to meet the demand of the local population to visit their native place during summer vacation.
The Union Civil Aviation secretary informed the Andaman and Nicobar administration about the additional flights that Air India would operate this month, sources added.





PTI/Economic Times

JOBS| Ground staff

Ground staff:
To qualify, you need to meet these prerequisites:





Age: Under 25 years.
Weight : In propositions to height
Qualification : Graduate

Well groomed
A pleasant personality
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
Ready to work in shifts


e-mail us your resume along with a photograph (full-length and passport size) on career@jagsonairline.com or mail to the following addresses:
Delhi Jagson Airlines ltd.
12-E, Vandana Building,
11-Tolstory Marg, New Delhi-110001
2372 1593, 2372 1594, 2332 8579, 2332 8580,
2332 3949, 2373 0685
Delhi airport Jagson Airlines ltd.
Terminal - 1B, Domestic Airport, 
ph.# 65515132,25674898

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NEWS| Kingfisher negotiating Rs 2,000 cr loan from SBI

Kingfisher Airlines is negotiating with State Bank of India (SBI), the country's largest bank, for a working capital loan of over Rs 2,000 crore. The money will be used for clearing fuel bills. SBI executives, however, said the sanctioned amount was likely to be lower.





Industry sources said the carrier owed over Rs 620 crore to BPCL and HPCL, besides Rs 160 crore to IOC. However, Kingfisher Airlines is not the only company with oil dues. “Raising funds is an ongoing issue and because we are bound by confidentiality and non-disclosure agreements, it will be inappropriate to offer any comment at this stage,” a Kingfisher spokesperson said.
The payment of aviation turbine fuel dues has been an issue for all major airlines. On October 23, 2008, oil companies gave airlines a breather on dues worth Rs 2,900 crore, which were to be paid in six monthly instalments till March 31, 2009. Subsequent purchases from the date of that announcement were given credit of 90 days. Sources said airlines were defaulting both on instalments and current purchases.
Kingfisher Airlines, Jet Airways and state-owned Air India started this financial year with accumulated dues of Rs 4,000 crore to oil companies and airports, sources said.






Business Standard

NEWS| Jet Air-Kingfisher operational synergies pact yet to take effect

A Jet Airways spokesperson told Business Line that the working groups set up between the two airlines are working out the modalities.




“Working groups have been set up between the two carriers to work out detailed modalities. Once we are in a position to share any information, we will do so at an appropriate time,” the airline spokesperson said. When contacted, a Kingfisher Airlines spokesperson said the alliance is very much on track.

In October last year, both the airlines signed an agreement to help them to significantly rationalise and reduce costs and provide improved standards of service and a wider choice of air travel options to the consumers.

The scope of the alliance included joint fuel management, common ground handling, cross selling of flight inventories, code shares on domestic and international flights and joint network rationalisation and synergies.

The Jet Airways spokesperson said that the airline is not in a position to offer any information on the status of its deal with the Bahrain-based Gulf Air which had apparently decided to return the leased aircraftto Jet Airways after the wet lease gets over.

It is learnt that Gulf Air had indicated to Jet Airways that it plans to return four long range Boeing 777-300ER aircraft once the wet lease period gets over in six months. According to the agreement, Gulf Air was to convert the wet lease to dry lease after six months.

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JOBS| In-flight crew

An invitation for aspiring Cabin Crew. 


Your dream of world-class career with a leading airline has just got wings. With Jagson Airlines, the world-class flying experience in Indian skies.




What we are looking for ::
We look for young, dynamic females with the following mandatory requirement:
Age: Between 18-27 years.
Height (Bare foot) : 5.3''
Weight : In proposition to height
Qualification : HSC(10+2)
Other requirements : Clear Complexion Unblemished, Unscarred, etc.
Language Proficiency : Speaking, reading and writing in Hindi and English is compulsory
Nationality : Indian resident

e-mail us your resume along with a photograph (full-length and passport size) on career@jagsonairline.com or mail to the following addresses:
Delhi Jagson Airlines ltd.
12-E, Vandana Building,
11-Tolstory Marg, New Delhi-110001
2372 1593, 2372 1594, 2332 8579, 2332 8580,
2332 3949, 2373 0685
Delhi airport Jagson Airlines ltd.
Terminal - 1B, Domestic Airport, 
ph.# 65515132,25674898

JOBS| Cabin Crew (Females Only)

Cabin Crew (Females Only)





Fresher (Minimum qualification - Graduates from any discipline), Fluent in English and Hindi, Height proportionate with weight.

Please courier your details CV, clearly mentioning the position applied for at the top of the envelope to as well as on the top of the CV.

Head Human Resources and Administration
MDLR Airlines Pvt. Ltd.
MDLR House, SCO 2,3,4, Old Judicial Complex,
Sector-15, Gurgaon-122002,
Haryana, India
e-mail : careers@mdlrairlines.in

JOBS| Senior Cabin Crew (Females Only)

Cabin Crew (Females Only)





Experienced Female Cabin Crew with minimum 18 months of experience in any Indian Private carriers, with valid SEP. , Height proportionate with weight.

Please courier your details CV, clearly mentioning the position applied for at the top of the envelope to as well as on the top of the CV.

Head Human Resources and Administration
MDLR Airlines Pvt. Ltd.
MDLR House, SCO 2,3,4, Old Judicial Complex,
Sector-15, Gurgaon-122002,
Haryana, India
e-mail : careers@mdlrairlines.in

COACH| True knowledge comes from testing your wisdom

from myeclatcoach.com|One of the many benefits of a holiday and that of an adversity is that you find yourself.

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Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. - Lao Tzu

One of the many benefits of a holiday and that of an adversity is that you find yourself.

I have found that on every holiday that I undertake I invariably discover or sometimes re-discover myself. I know a lot of other people who come back from a holiday and have only pictures to show for it, me, on the other hand has me to show for it.

People who meet me after the holiday invariably remark how much better I sound and truly, I feel much better. Not only for the rest that the holiday accorded but the very act of submerging myself in a new environ is an act of change and all change is a little disconcerting. It makes one look at oneself in a critical fashion, assess what one likes one doesn't, experiment and at the same time look for anything that might bring a fleeting moment of peace from the tried and tested.

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NEWS| Indigo airline adds six more flights to its operation

Low-cost airline IndiGo on Wednesday announced to add six more flights to its operation even as the domestic demand continues to be weak.





Rival SpiceJet is also planning to introduce similar number of flights by the end of May. While IndiGo is expected to add five more aircraft to its existing fleet, SpiceJet is scheduled to take the delivery of one airplane by the end of the current fiscal.
The development comes at a time when private network carriers are rationalising routes and reducing their fleet size to contain losses.
"We have had highest load factor (average passengers per available seat kilometre) in the market in the recent time. Apart from this other economic performance is such that we have to expand. There is till huge demand for low-fare travel," IndiGo president Aditya Ghosh told ET.
Consulting firm Centre for Asia Pacific and Aviation (CAPA) India head Kapil Kaul, however, said that the two budget carriers SpiceJet and IndiGo need to hold on their capacities to ensure increased fleet utilization.
Economic Times

JOBS| In-flight crew

An invitation for aspiring Cabin Crew. 


Your dream of world-class career with a leading airline has just got wings. With Jagson Airlines, the world-class flying experience in Indian skies.




What we are looking for ::
We look for young, dynamic females with the following mandatory requirement:
Age: Between 18-27 years.
Height (Bare foot) : 5.3''
Weight : In proposition to height
Qualification : HSC(10+2)
Other requirements : Clear Complexion Unblemished, Unscarred, etc.
Language Proficiency : Speaking, reading and writing in Hindi and English is compulsory
Nationality : Indian resident

e-mail us your resume along with a photograph (full-length and passport size) on career@jagsonairline.com or mail to the following addresses:
Delhi Jagson Airlines ltd.
12-E, Vandana Building,
11-Tolstory Marg, New Delhi-110001
2372 1593, 2372 1594, 2332 8579, 2332 8580,
2332 3949, 2373 0685
Delhi airport Jagson Airlines ltd.
Terminal - 1B, Domestic Airport, 
ph.# 65515132,25674898