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Lots of airline chatter has happened this week. Some good news from Vistara and not so good news from Air India, read up about everything we covered this past week.
Last Year, Jet Airways introduced short haul catering which would include Krispy Kreme Donuts and Subway Sandwiches. Then, it seems to have quietly killed it all!
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Emirates is launching a new mobile-phone based meal ordering service shortly, where your orders quickly travel to the galley on a phone/tablet combination, just like a restaurant, and leave no room for error.
Air India is now offering their Gold and Maharajah members the ability to cancel and reschedule tickets for free. This is a welcome upgrade in the Flying Returns program.
Etihad is going to withdraw their A380 service from India from July 1, 2017. That would make it perhaps one of the quickest turnaround from “India is an important market” to “India, you don’t make us enough money!”
Vistara and Singapore Airlines have started to offer elite member privileges to each other’s frequent flyer members which include lounge access, extra checked-in baggage allowance, priority check-in and boarding benefits. This has been much awaited and finally, one more step towards integration of the two carriers.
ZoomCar has now signed up to be the sole self-drive service provider who is now offering a self-drive car which you can pick up right after you arrive in Mumbai at Terminal 2, the international airport terminal. Here is how to go about it!
Air India’s losses primarily are coming from their International operations. Turns out their Mumbai to Newark flight is making millions of dollars of losses, and our flag carrier is not even recovering the cost of fuel on many routes. All that adds up to a billion dollar loss! Sigh!
Air India seems to have fudged their books to understate their losses by about US Dollar 1 Billion over 3 years. Ouch! Here is what the auditor had to say about their losses!
