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What will Kingfisher call its Biz. Class?
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As the title says what will Kingfisher call its Biz. Class
Currently they call their economy class as "Kingfisher Class"
Their execuitve class is called "Kingfisher First"
So when they start their wide-body operations ie A330, A340, A350 and A380 when the thrid class gets introduced what wi...
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Air fare-war wings into the peak season
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http://www.dnaindia.com/report.asp?NewsID=1048840
Air fare-war wings into the peak season
Praveena Sharma Tuesday, August 22, 2006 22:40 IST
BANGALORE: The peak season for the aviation sector is nigh. Something bleeding domestic airlines have been waiting for with bated bre...
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IC's B737 into freighters?
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few months ago aviation minister praful patel gave a statement that IC's aging B737 fleet shall be converted into freighters
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Russian Jet crashes...
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Just got this news on yahoo
Jet with 171 on board crashes in Ukraine
MOSCOW - A Russian passenger jet with 171 people aboard crashed in Ukraine on Tuesday after sending a distress signal, emergency officials said. Russia's Emergency Situations Ministry said 30 bodies had been found.
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Indian finalises lease of two A-330s
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http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/2006/08/21/stories/2006082102710100.htm
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G8 bird hit at VIJP
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VT WAC an A320 belonging to GoAir had a bird strike on take off roll. Capt continued with TO and returned with full emergency on one engine. Engine looked pretty okay for a bird hit, I think around 8 blades were damaged and only one looked seriously broken. Birds are a big time problem these days suddenly...
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Mr. Al-Qaida and Mr. Terrorist (this is just too good!!!)
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Please read the whole article and please download and see the video here
Al Kyder's Virgin on the ridiculous.
Jano Gibson August 18, 2006 - 4:17PM
It's a prank Bart Simpson would be proud of. After several controversial stunts, including trying to flog knuckle-dusters outside a B...
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When does 9w get its first 773ER?
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Need i say anymore? haha
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UA 923 LHR-IAD diverted to BOS
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Just saw on television that United Airlines flight UA 923 diverted to Boston due to security issue.A woman on the flight had vaseline,screwdriver and matches with her.-- Edited by DELAPPROACH at 22:03, 2006-08-16 -- Edited by DELAPPROACH at 22:17, 2006-08-16
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gold IL18D at DEL
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Hi: I had posted earlier about this Gold coloured plane i spotted in DEL. I managed to get some useful information about the aircraft type and who may be using it currently.
But as u can see from the photograph, it says National Paints on the side and is Gold!
Does anyone have any clue about why its pai...
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Is AI reliable or not?
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I tried posting this on a.net but was received by a million people trying to bust my A$$ for some reason or the other. But since this is a nice and respecful site with lots of indians, i think we can do some self analysis. my question is easy:
Do you think Air India is reliable or unreliable, is it safe to fl...
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S2 jumps chocks at DEL
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a f/o saw a S2 737 jump the chocks a couple of weeks ago with the Ground engineer attached to the aircraft. Anyone in DEL with more details? Don't know which flight it was, 2 aircrafts were 'leading edge extended' at the same time. If it helps this aircraft was parked next to taxiway bravo...
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DN and A380
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does anyone know if DN has ordered some A380s or has them in options
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More fleet: Jet knocks on SBI's door for $600 mn
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http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1899142.cms More fleet: Jet knocks on SBI's door for $600 mn Byas Anand [ 17 Aug, 2006 0156hrs ISTTIMES NEWS NETWORK ] RSS Feeds| SMS NEWS to 8888 for latest updates
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IC launches Spot Fares
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IC launches last minute fares.
IC has offered spot fares which are 60-70% lower than the normal Y class fares.
The reduced fares on offer are available from 22 airports including Chennai, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Thiruvananthapuram, Vizag, Madurai, Kochi, Delhi, Mumbai, Pune and Goa.
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Ethiopian Airlines plans Kolkata next
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http://www.dailyindia.com/show/51146.php/Ethiopia_keen_on_Indian_investment
Ethiopia keen on Indian investment
By Indo Asian News Service
Kolkata, Aug 14 (IANS) Ethiopia is keen to attract Indian investment in energy and other sectors and is considering a di...
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Jet, Deccan and Stock market woes
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Source: Bloomberg
Jet Airways Delays Share Sale as Indian Market Falls (Update1)
June 2 (Bloomberg) -- Jet Airways (India) Ltd., whose shares have fallen by a third since its initial public offering, has delayed an additional $300 million sale after the local stock market had its biggest mont...
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Jet Delays share sale
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From Bloomberg.
Jet Airways delays share sale
Jet Airways (India) Ltd., whose shares have fallen by a third since its initial public offering, has delayed an additional $300 million sale af...
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Flights post restrictions
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Has anyone flown on a domestic flight after the 90 minutes in advance reporting & restriction on hand-baggage was introduced?
What are the changes effected in security, baggage scanning, etc?
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Indian aircraft information
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hey
i jsut stumbled upon this very interesting dgca website. Basically u type in any VT-... registration and it gives you almost all information about the particular plane. Its very useful while submitting photos on A.net or myaviation.
http://dgca.nic.in/caris/know_ind.htm
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Postal Dept to launch air cargo service soon: Maran
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www.uninews.com
Postal Dept to launch air cargo service soon: Maran
Chennai, Aug 14 (UNI)
The Department of Posts will soon launch air cargo service to facilitate speedy delivery, Union Communication and Information Technology Minister Dayanidhi Maran said today. The service would be i...
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Most Powerfull Take offs
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which airlines or aircraft give the best take off ride,i know it is dependent quite a bit on ATC but the final V1 and V2 speed is determined by the pilots.i feel sahara is fast in 737 side and IC in airbus...
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Why did MH stop Operating AMD
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AMD had only 4 airlines operating on international routes Indian, Air India, Singapore Airlines & Malaysia Airlines. AMD has a lot of International Pax going out to UK, USA and AUS, apart from the middle east. SQ is doing fine on AMD-SIN route and so is with AI on AMD-LON route
Does any on...
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Foreign airlines may get to buy stakes in domestic carriers
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Foreign airlines may get to buy stakes in domestic carriers
NEW DELHI: To ease the growing pressure on airport infrastructure due to the ongoing aviation boom, the government is considering a package of suggestions from the Investment Commission including modernisation of 10 non-metro airpo...
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Jet to start DEL-SIN.
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Sorry if this has been posted before.I did a search but didn't find anything.
Jet Airways will be launching non-stop flights between Delhi and Singapore from 6 September.I think these flights will be operated under a code share agreement between Jet Airways and Qantas.Here's the link:
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Cool flight trackers
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http://www.aeroseek.com/webtrax/
It allows you see realtime a/c position on Google eath.
This one is good for viewing flights over North American airports
http://flightaware.com/live/airport/CYYZ -- Edited by VOTV at 02:04, 2006-08-15
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How many lady pilots are there in India?
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How many lady pilots are there?
A search on the net always gives a negative.
One only remembers the Indian Airlines gang of ladies.
Meet the First Mangalorean Woman Pilot Dayalini Menezes
by Rajesh Sequeira, Daijiworld N...
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Fresh losses for airlines who were recuperating from previous losses.
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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2006/08/11/BUGPNKFS2H1.DTL
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Cargo is the next craze
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http://www.financialexpress.com/fe_full_story.php?content_id=130871
Air freighters on steroids New passenger airlines dream up cargo plans to shore revenues. Oversupply may be a rude awakener TANEESHA KULSHRESTHA
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Which airports will greet the A380
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Which airports in India will be prepared to take the A380 i feel its only BOM and DEL
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Kolkata flight bomb threat a hoax
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Hi All,
Just got this off rediff.com:
http://in.rediff.com/news/2006/jun/21hoax.htm
An Indian (Indian Airlines) plane from Delhi landed in emergency conditions at the international airport in Kolkata on Tuesday night and was searched by anti-explosive experts looking for bo...
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airline loads to CCU
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Is anyone aware of the major airline loads to CCU.Airlines like SQ,BA,EK,AI,GF and TG ? It will be interesting to have some figures ??
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ATIS numbers for BOM
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Delhi ATC has put up an ATIS number where we can dial-in to check the weather, does any other airport have this? Its really helpful to plan while driving to take a flight.
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Advice for UK trip
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Well, this had to crop up NOW when I was to fly from DEL to LHR on 16th.
I would be grateful for advice on the following from experienced travellers:
1) The flight is at 0200. Normally one should reach the airport by 2300. (Can't say whether online checking will be available). In view of the added...
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For safer skies, entire Indian airspace comes on IAF radar
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http://www.indianexpress.com/story/10417.html For safer skies, entire Indian airspace comes on IAF radar Pranab Dhal Samanta Posted online: Saturday, August 12, 2006 at 0000 hrs Print Email NEW DELHI, AUGUST 11:For the first time in the country, all civilian aircraft, includi...
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North American Kerala association to build airport
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district.[url=http://www.newindpress.com/NewsItems.asp?ID=IER20060809010457&Page=R&Title=Kerala&Topic=0&]http://http://www.newindpress.com/NewsItems....
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VARIG to stop???
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Brazilian Airline VARIG is to be sold any news why and to whom
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The 'New' IA media centre
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http://mediacenter.indianairlines.in/mediacenter/index.asp-- Edited by karatecatman at 17:55, 2006-05-31
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Tiger Airways in India
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When will Tiger Airways begin their India operations? They were supposed to begin flights from Singapore to Kolkata early this year ??
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Hi Fellow Airneter(India)-ians! Namaste!
I would like to know how fellow members' experiences have been flying TG from India to BKK.
I was thinking of flying TG from Bangalore(BLR)-Bangkok(BKK) in Nov'06.
Which routes have you flown on and your comments would be appreciated! Also i...
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Air India 777 VT-AIJ
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Can anyone tell me why Air India's 777 VT-AIJ is parked at a remote bay at DEL for the past two months?Is there some Mx issue with the aircraft?I presume it must be affecting Air India's operations having a plane out of service for such a long time.
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AI 150 and 151 on 12th August
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Does anyone have an idea why AI is not operating their flights AI 150 and 151 on the CCU-LHR-CCU sector on Saturday August 12th ?Is it load related or something else ?
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Kerala-Europe
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Now that BLR, MAA, and HYD all have fairly extensive connections to Europe and further west, what do you think the chances that the Malayalees will have a nonstop to Europe from Cochin? How about Trivandrum.
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9W out of fuel!
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Was flying VOBB-VIDP last night, heard a 9W declare "out of fuel" between SG-PG and then landed normally at VIJP. Any news on this? Was pretty aghast to hear this though, sounded like the capn had not got his calculations right and had a higher burn and strong headwinds, assuming that it was an AT...
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LINKS Thread
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Pls post Interesting Aviation Related links you feel will be usefull for Anetters.
Heres one on the IMD.Good for Weather checking.
http://www.imd.gov.in/
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Fly.. err Sorry sail thru Vizag airport
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http://www.samachar.com/showurl.htm?rurl=http://www.indiavarta.com/gallery/?headline=In~pics:~Vizag~airport~turns~fish~pond
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Security breached on PM's special flight
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Security breached on PM's special flight
Air-India One's security has been breached. The security agencies have reported a serious lapse on board when Prime Minister Manmohan Singh visited Germany in April....
On April 24, after attending the Indo-German Business Summit in Hanover, Singh...
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Brief Analysis of Indian Aviation
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Indian reservations
Derek Sadubin, general manager of the Centre for Asia Pacific Aviation, examines the failure of the proposed takeover of Air Sahara by Jet Airways and looks at their prospects given the rapid rise of low-cost carriers in the dynamic Indian market
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Royal Air
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When i was based in Singapore, i heard of Royal Air (Ex Modiluft) taking off.....Now i do not even hear about them.....
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Paramount Airlines - Status?
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