Jet Airways to start Hyderabad-Dubai flight Sunday

September 17th, 2009 HYDERABAD - GMR Hyderabad International Airport Ltd (GHIAL), the operators of Rajiv Gandhi International Airport here, will organize a shopping festival Sep 19-Oct 24, a company official said Thursday. Courtyard Marriott Hotel and Jet Airways, along with all the retail and food and beverage outlets in the airport premises, are sponsoring the festival, said a statement by the company.

September 4th, 2009 ABU DHABI - Etihad Airways, the national airline of the United Arab Emirates, has expanded its US operations by adding one more city to its network, WAM news agency reported Friday. The airline has launched flights from its Abu Dhabi home-base to the US city of Chicago.

September 1st, 2009 KOCHI - Jet Airways Tuesday launched services to the Gulf emirate of Sharjah, with the introduction of a daily service from here. The new flight is Jet's fourth daily service to the Gulf from Kochi, complementing its services to Doha, Kuwait and Muscat.

September 1st, 2009 HYDERABAD - A Bangalore-Delhi IndiGo flight Tuesday had to make an emergency landing at the Rajiv Gandhi International Airport (RGIA) here due to a technical snag. All 99 passengers and crew on board were safe, an official said.

August 24th, 2009 MUMBAI - Jet Airways will launch a New Delhi-Hong Kong daily service from Sep 30, a top airline official announced here Monday. "The return Hong Kong-New Delhi flight would be launched Oct 1 to mark China's national day," said Jet chief executive Wolfgang Prock-Schauer.

July 29th, 2009 MUMBAI - Private carrier Jet Airways will launch flight from Mumbai to Saudi Arabian capital Riyadh from Aug 6, the airline said Wednesday. The airline will launch four services a week on the Mumbai-Riyadh sector - on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, Jet said in a statement.

July 21st, 2009 THIRUVANANTHAPURAM - Private carrier Jet Airways will launch daily services on the Kochi-Sharjah route from Sep 1, the airline said Tuesday. This will be Jet's fourth daily flight to the Gulf from Kochi, the airline said in a statement.

July 9th, 2009 CHANDIGARH - Hoping to put Chandigarh on the international flight map, Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal has written to Defence Minister A.K. Antony for his intervention in getting Indian Air Force (IAF) authorities to permit Fly Dubai to begin operations.

June 29th, 2009 CHANDIGARH - Travelling abroad from Punjab and Haryana will not mean travelling to Delhi anymore with Chandigarh airport being upgraded to an international airport. The first flight for Dubai will take off July end.

June 12th, 2009 US Airways seeks 400 flight attendants for leaveUS Airways is asking for 400 flights attendants to volunteer for leaves of up to 16 months, and said involuntary furloughs could be next if there aren't enough takers. The Tempe, Ariz.-based company said in a newsletter issued to workers on Thursday that it needs fewer flight attendants because it has reduced capacity faster than flight attendants have retired or quit.

April 27th, 2009 AGARTALA - Chennai-based Paramount Airways has launched its operations Monday connecting the eastern and northeastern region with the southern Indian cities. 'From Monday onwards, the Paramount Airways would operate airbus between Kolkata, Guwahati, Agartala and many southern India cities,' said R.C.

April 19th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The new domestic departure terminal of the Indira Gandhi International airport became operational here Sunday with an Indigo flight taking off for Guwahati early in the morning. A spokesperson of airport developer Delhi International Airport Ltd (DIAL), a GMR-led consortium, told IANS: 'The first Indigo flight for Guwahati took off at 5.30 a.m.

March 29th, 2009 KOLKATA - British Airways suspended its direct service to London from here Sunday, with the last flight taking off at around 5 a.m., even as national carrier Air India resumed operations on the route the same day. British Airways, which operated three direct fights a week from the city to Heathrow Airport in London, decided to suspend operations as it found the route unprofitable.

March 21st, 2009 HYDERABAD - Air India will introduce a daily Hyderabad-Chicago flight via Delhi and Frankfurt March 29, an official said here Friday. Air India deputy general manager (commercial) Ashok Kumar told reporters here that the flight will depart from Hyderabad at 9 p.m.

March 6th, 2009 MUMBAI - India's leading private air carrier Jet Airways Thursday announced that it will launch direct daily flights from Mumbai to Kuwait from March 29. This will be the airline's second daily service to Kuwait from India.