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Lufthansa to resume Kolkata-Frankfurt flights after 35 years
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Lufthansa to get to all metros now!!


Lufthansa to resume Kolkata-Frankfurt flights after 35 years
Kolkata, Aug 7 (UNI)


After 35 years, German airlines Lufthansa plans to resume operations of its passenger carriers from Frankfurt to Kolkata from December, with three weekly flights, airline sources said.
Lufthansa began scheduled services to India with Kolkata as its first destination in 1959, with two flights a week. Lockheed Super Constellation (LH-640) landed here on November 1, after flying 30 hours from Frankfurt via Cairo, Kuwait and Karachi.
The Airlines, however, withdrew its operations in 1971 due to Naxalite agitation in the state, the sources said.
On July 1991, a fortnightly scheduled freighter service was introduced from Frankfurt to Kolkata by Lufthansa Cargo.
‘‘With the resumption of services from Kolkata making it the sixth destination after Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Bangalore and Hyderabad in the Lufthansa India network, Lufthansa will establish its presence across all metros with 45 weekly flights,’’ the sources said. 



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This is good news! Any idea which aircraft LH is planning to use on this route?

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This is good news! Any idea which aircraft LH is planning to use on this route?

A333 would suffice on this route!  Or maybe A343.

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It's planned to be a 343. I don't think LH use their 332s on any India sectors (where do they use them?)

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Yes, its the hair-dryers.

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It's planned to be a 343. I don't think LH use their 332s on any India sectors (where do they use them?)

DTW is one of them.

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no A330s anywhere to India. its either the 744 or the A343

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More details here!!  


http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/2006/08/09/stories/2006080902971900.htm


 


Lufthansa all set to start services from Kolkata


Our Bureau





Number of flights out of India will go up to 45 per week




Spreading out
The airline would operate an Airbus A340-300 on the sector
Repeat of the ModiLuft experience ruled out
Lufthansa open to the idea of expanding its footprint





RESUMED ROUTE: Mr Wemer Heesen, General Manager, Passenger Sales in India and Director, South Asia, Lufthansa German Airlines, addressing a press conference in Kolkata on Tuesday. — A. Roy Chowdhury



Kolkata , Aug. 8

Some 25 years after it stopped scheduled flight operations from Kolkata, Lufthansa is all set to commence a thrice-a-week flight on the Kolkata-Frankfurt-Kolkata sector with effect from December 1, 2006.

With this, the number of Lufthansa flights out of India from six destinations will go up to 45 per week, Mr Werner Heesen, General Manager (Passenger Sales India) and Director, South Asia, Lufthansa German Airlines, told a press conference here on Tuesday.

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Mr Heesen said that with Kolkata emerging as a favoured business destination for many a corporate from the West, it was only appropriate that the hub of eastern India was connected to the hub of Europe through non-stop flights.

To begin with, the airline would operate an Airbus A340-300 on the sector with a seating configuration of eight First Class seats, 54 Business Class and 173 Economy Class seats. The flights from Frankfurt would arrive in Kolkata on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays even as the flights would leave Kolkata for Frankfurt on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. All flights would provide connections to other European destinations and to the US.

To begin with, promotional fares for all classes on board have been announced for passengers travelling from Kolkata to Frankfurt and to the US. Passengers travelling by First Class on the Kolkata-Frankfurt sector would have to pay Rs 2,61,800, while Business Class and Economy Class passengers will pay Rs 94,000 and Rs 19,000, respectively.

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Those who fly further to New York would have to pay Rs 4,65,320 if they travel by First Class, Rs 1,95,500 by Business Class and Rs 35,000 by Economy. In addition, passengers travelling by First Class will have to pay Rs 17,000 as taxes, while those travelling by Business Class and Economy Class will need to pay Rs 8,500 as taxes.

Mr Heesen ruled out a repeat of the ModiLuft experience with any other domestic airline in the future. He said the ModiLuft initiative was a commercial decision that was taken at that point in time and firmly ruled out any plans to operate flights in the domestic skies in association with any local partner. However, the airline was maintaining its interline arrangements with airlines like Jet Airways.

According to him, Lufthansa was open to the idea of expanding its Indian footprint in western India, possibly with flights out of Ahmedabad and other cities in Maharashtra in the future.



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Date:01/11/2006 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2006/11/01/stories/2006110104810400.htm



Tamil Nadu - Chennai

Air France's Paris-Chennai inaugural flight lands

Priscilla Jebaraj





The direct flight is to woo businessmen




CHENNAI: Air France's inaugural flight from Paris landed at Chennai airport in the early hours of Tuesday morning, and as the passengers disembarked, the gracious French crew waved them off with nandri, not merci.

From menus in Tamil to the comforting familiarity of rice and paruppu meals and the Pondicherry-born, Tamil-speaking stewards, no effort is spared to ensure that Chennai travellers feel at home.

Besides tourists, the direct flight is trying to lure Tamil Nadu's businessmen and IT professionals travelling to Europe and the U.S.

John, who works with a Chennai garment export firm, is trying Air France for the first time and will probably encourage his firm to regularly use the airline. That's exactly what Dominique Gass, Air France's general manager for South Asia, is looking for. "Our biggest strategy is to aim for corporates, both big and small. We try to make long-term customers," he says.

Air France offers a frequent flyer programme, specifically aimed at small and medium enterprises, through which they can accumulate a pool of joint reward points every time an employee uses the airline.

Mr. Gass recognises that the "industry network in Tamil Nadu is more diversified than in Bangalore", where software companies are the largest corporate clients. Here, there are more SMEs who send employees abroad, especially firms which export car parts, textiles and even shoes, he says. Soundar Rajane, a travel agent on the flight agrees, saying that a large number of his clients are from the Tirupur textile cluster.

Settling into the comfortable new l'Espace seat, with its shell-like structure and lie-flat seat bed, that is being used in the business class on the Chennai flight, Mr. Gass says that France has a "shared cultural heritage" with South India. A large number of the passengers on this inaugural flight are either Indian residents of Puducherry visiting relatives in France, or French citizens who left Puducherry decades ago, but who still say they are "going home".

Over fifty per cent of the passengers were students, IT professionals and NRI families travelling from the U.K. and the U.S. Most transit passengers still fly Lufthansa via Frankfurt, but Air France is trying to wean away more of this lucrative traffic, promoting Paris as a hub. At just Rs. 16,500 plus taxes for a Chennai-London return ticket and Rs. 32,900 plus taxes for the Chennai-New York flight, it's begun attracting several first-time customers.



Air France hosted Indian journalists on the inaugural flight.










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wrong topic to update mate.....

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Flip back please!!


There is a reference to the discontinuation of Delta operations to Chennai and this being taken over by Air France with a possibility of a codeshare ---Air France and Delta to MAA. 



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lol... this thread's seriously gone on a pan india trip aint it?

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Linking once again with Air France and Delta.


http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/006200611031859.htm
Delta mulls more direct flights from other Indian cities to US
Mumbai, Nov. 3 (PTI): World's fastest growing carrier Delta Airlines, which today flagged off a flight from Mumbai to New York, said it was examining the possibility to launch direct services from other Indian cities.


"We are closely examining the market to start direct flights from other India cities. If the need be, we will certainly start such services," Frank Jahangir, Delta's Staff Vice President - Sales and Affairs-Europe, Middle East and Africa told PTI here today.


Delta Airlines first started its service in India in November 1991 and has flights from Chennai, Delhi and Bangalore to the US via Paris on codeshare flights operated by Delta's SkyTeam partner Air France.


The US carrier flagged off the first non-stop service between Mumbai to the US at the wee hours of today.


"Having fifteen years of presence in India, we feel that the time is rife for us to start a direct flight to connect the two commercial centres of India and the US. We will aim at both the business class as well as the leisure travellers," Jahangir said.


He added that the direct flight would reduce the travel time by at least four hours, helping the passengers to make most of the tour.


The airline would use 268-seater Boeing 777, with 50 seats reserved for business class.


"We did a market survey prior to launch of the direct flight, which showed tremendous response," he said.


The fare has been fixed at Rs 44,421 for economy class and Rs 1,41,426 for business class.


 



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Lufthansa eyes non-metros
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NEW DELHI: Lufthansa German Airlines is now preparing to join the bandwagon of international carriers looking at non-metro India for growth. The airline is exploring plans to fly into two non-metro cities — Pune and Ahmedabad — next year as part of plans to spread its wings in the Indian skies.


"Besides expanding our footprint in the metro cities like Chennai and Hyderabad, we will look at smaller towns in western India next year. Pune and Ahmedabad are the best markets for this and we intend to start talks with the government on expanding into these cities next year," Lufthansa's GM (passenger sales) for India Werner Heesen said.


Prior to that, the firm will restart flights to Kolkata this December — over three decades after it pulled out of the market to focus on Delhi and Mumbai. "The market was different then," Heesen said. "But today, West Bengal is showing among the fastest growth rates in the country. Even top industries like IT and others are shifting base from south of India to northeast."


The airline has temporarily withdrawn one flight from Hyderabad to start the Kolkata flight. "This is just a temporary arrangement and the Hyderabad flight will be restored when we start getting deliveries of new planes in February," Heesen added. 
 



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Lufthansa resumes Kolkata-Frankfurt flight


With security at London's Heathrow airport still being a concern, US-bound passengers from Kolkata may find a respite in German airline Lufthansa which resumed its Frankfurt to Kolkata flight on Saturday.

About 40 per cent of Lufthansa's passengers from India go beyond Frankfurt, mainly to the United States. Lufthansa has resumed its operation from Kolkata after a gap of 35 years, with the first flight from Frankfurt reaching the city early morning on Saturday. Lufthansa had stopped its flights in 1971 on security grounds owing to the Naxalite agitation in the State.

The Lufthansa flight to Frankfurt will operate thrice weekly, with fares for economy class priced at Rs 19,600. Kolkata has become the sixth destination of the German airline operator after Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Bangalore and Hyderabad. It now runs 45 flights weekly from the country. India has also become the sixth country for the carrier in the Asia Pacific region.

The airline is also planning to serve traditional Bengali food to its customers from March 2007.

Thierry Antinori, executive vice-president, marketing and sales of the airline, said it plans to operate in at least 10 routes from India within the next couple of years. India is at the number two position in terms of revenue in the Asia Pacific region for the Lufthansa group, Japan being in the first place. While Japan contributes 40 per cent to the total revenue, India contributes 18 per cent. China comes third. The Asia Pacific region forms 20 per cent of the total revenue globally.


 


http://in.news.yahoo.com/061202/48/69xxl.html



-- Edited by the_380 at 17:03, 2006-12-03

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Lufthansa targets Japan, India, China as investment areas
Kolkata, Dec 2 (UNI)


German carrier Lufthansa is eyeing Japan, India and China as its focal point of future investments in the Asia-Pacific region.
 Japan accounts for Lufthansa’s 40 per cent market share in the region, followed by India’s 18 to 20 per cent, leaving China in the third position.
 Briefing reporters on the resumption of Lufthansa’s direct Kolkata-Frankfurt thrice-a-week service after a gap of 35 years, the airline’s executive vice-president (Marketing and Sales) Thierry Antinori said in India Lufthansa was targeting 20,000 outbound passengers per week.
 The airline, which made Kolkata its sixth destination as against four in China, is working out details for adding another destination in the country. Asked to be specific, he said Amritsar was the likely destination.
 ‘‘We are eventually planning to increase the number of destinations to 10 in the next three to four years,’’ he said.
 Lufthansa is at present operating its flights from Frankfurt to Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Bangalore, Hyderabad and Kolkata. Kolkata has now become Lufthansa’s 20th destination in Asia.
 About Lufthansa’s strategic alliance with Air-India and private airline Jet Airways, Antinori said Lufthansa had a code-sharing arrangement with Air-India since 2004 and a partnership with Jet Airways from May this year.  
 Describing the strategic alliance with Air-India to serve the growing market in India even better, Antinori said that Lufthansa’s partnership with the India carrier provided travellers with a choice of over 400 codeshare flights per week within and between India, Europe and North America.
 Beyond codeshare flights, the partners also cooperate in the areas of engineering, commercial and IT services.
 In keeping with the expectations of its Indian customers, Lufthansa has fine-tuned its passenger services catering specifically to their needs, he said.
 The company also introduced Indian cabin crew on all its flights to India in June 1996 and today about 175 Indian flight attendants are employed, he added.
 Earlier, West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee launched a pictorial ’Coffee Table Book on Kolkata’ published by Lufthansa to mark the resumption of the flight connecting Frankfurt and Kolkata by the airliner.


German airline Lufthansa <LHAG.DE_> has no interest in taking a stake in Alitalia, German newspaper Handelsblatt said on Sunday, quoting a member of Lufthansa’s management board. Taking a stake in Alitalia does not come into question for us for the moment,’’ Thierry Antinori told the newspaper.


He added Lufthansa was the biggest foreign airline in the Italian market thanks to Air Dolomiti and Air One.  Italy plans to put half of its controlling stake in Alitalia up for sale early next year, opening the way for new owners to try to rescue the loss-making airline, officials said on Friday.


A cabinet meeting agreed that the state, which owns 49.9 percent of the flag airline, would put up for sale about a 25 percent stake.


Alitalia, which is forecast to lose more than 200 million euros ($264.8 million) this year, has been in turmoil for more than 10 years and is on its third chief executive since 2000.     



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no A330s anywhere to India. its either the 744 or the A343


Only and only if you can take a joke, in which case I have a (relevant) question for you, D-ABTH?



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"Besides expanding our footprint in the metro cities like Chennai and Hyderabad, we will look at smaller towns in western India next year. Pune and Ahmedabad are the best markets for this and we intend to start talks with the government on expanding into these cities next year," Lufthansa's GM (passenger sales) for India Werner Heesen said.


.....SNIP...



Hope the day come soon. It was not fun waiting overnight at BOM (even though the terminal has improved). When it happens I'll need to buy a PSP (LH still does not have personal ent. systems right? )

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DABTH wrote:


no A330s anywhere to India. its either the 744 or the A343


Only and only if you can take a joke, in which case I have a (relevant) question for you, D-ABTH?




you are free to ask the question... its relevance is for me to decide, as is the need for a reply.

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Lufthansa may give dedicated credit card to Indian customers
Kolkata, Dec 4 (UNI)


Giving a new dimension to its India operations, German airline Lufthansa has said it was in talks with several companies to provide a dedicated credit card to its Indian customers.
 The company also announced its interest in grabbing ground handling contracts in the airports at Hyderabad and Mumbai.
 When the plan is implemented, the premier carrier would become the first international airline to launch a credit/ travel card in the country. So far, domestic carriers like Indian and Jet Airways offer such cards.
 ‘‘We are planning to launch a credit card as there is a potential market for it. We are currently talking to five to seven firms in this regard,’’ Company’s Executive Vice President (Marketing & Sales) Thierry Antinori said.
 The German carrier is also planning to use the largest aircraft Airbus A-380 to service the India routes.
 Regarding ground handling at Hyderabad and Mumbai airports, he said tenders had been issued for the contracts by these two airports and ‘‘we are examining them .... Lufthansa could float a joint venture company to bid for them’’.
 Lufthansa is already part of the airport service provider, GlobeGround India Pvt Ltd, in partnership with the Bird Group. GlobeGround provides passenger services, aircraft and cargo handling at major Indian airports.
 The airline was looking forward to fresh bilateral air services negotiations between India and Germany next year, Antinori said in the launch of the first direct Kolkata-Frankfurt flight.
 He expected expansion of its India network from six destinations at present to ten in the next three-four years. 


The top official of Lufthansa, which had rights to operate 50 flights from India each week, but was only running 45 at present, said the airline was operating large aircraft like Boeing 747-400s and A-340s on this sector.
 ‘‘We are looking at fresh round of negotiations (on upgrading the air services agreement) in 2007. Both countries have in principle agreed to expand their air services,’’ he said.
 Antinori indicated that new destinations in India were being considered, but refused to name them and said: ‘‘We have five to six Indian cities on our radar’’.
 He said additional frequencies could also be added from the existing six Indian cities in the near future.
 Considering the ‘‘double-digit’’ air traffic growth projection for India in the next three-four years, he said they would consider operating the largest aircraft A-380 on this sector.
 ‘‘We have almost doubled our frequencies from 23 to 45 between 2003 and 2006 and we plan to double our activities in the next five to six years’’, he said, adding it would depend on a mix of fleet, network and traffic decisions.
 Lufthansa, which first landed its aircraft here way back in 1934 at Jodhpur, is also expanding its fleet by acquiring five additional aircraft that would be inducted soon.
 The airline offers scheduled freighter services to Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Bangalore and Kolkata. It’s subsidiary LSG Sky Chefs, has opened its latest in-flight catering centre in Hyderabad and Bangalore, besides other major metros. The Lufthansa group has also tied up with Bird Group to provide data processing services for the global travel industry.



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