Kingfisher Airlines Announces New Flights

Kingfisher Airlines has announced New Flights connecting many new cities in India. Anticipation of the new flights were high following the induction of five new aircraft to the kingfisher stubble earlier this month. The new cites added to the kingfisher itinerary are Belgaum and Indore. The other flights will operate on the Jabalpur-Indore and Indore-Mumbai route. The new services are aimed at providing flight connections between the country's financial capital and important cities and facilitate greater economic activity.

There has been growing demand from the Non metropolitan cities to have flight connectivity with the rest of the countries , especially metros and kingfisher move is in the direction of encasing on the growing demand For this India Flights sector. Already There has been growing demand for Low cost Air ticket in the domestic flights sector and it is to be noted that India is fast emerging as top International Holidays destination further fueling airlines demands.

Emirates Dubai and Virgin Agreement

Emirates Airlines Dubai has entered into a deal with the Virgin  America airlines to provide  air travellers with better air flights  connections throughout United States.Thus Now on the Emirates airlines travelers flying from Dubai to American cities ,can now book connecting flights on Virgin America to six other cities in the US and Canada, and nine cities for Emirates passengers who travel to San Fransisco. Thus traveling to US cities will be more easier for Emirates US bound passengers.

Emirates Airlines is one of the fastest Growing airlines in the world and has been the only Airlines in Middle east to flow to West US Region. Besides that Emirates Airlines  had Flights from Dubai to most Important Cities in the world.

Air India Toppled by Indigo As the third biggest Domestic carrier

India's largest Low cost airline carrier Indigo Airways has overtaken state-owned Air India from the Number 3 spot in terms of market share in the domestic market in November going by the air traffic data released by the Directorate General of Civil aviation (DGCA).

As against 17.1 % Domestic traffic share in aviation market Indigo  Airlines now have a  17.3 per cent share in the domestic market. Yhe data is compiled on a monthly basis and this ranking owes to the November data wherein,the budget carrier flew 8.43 lakh passengers as against 8.36 lakh air travelers flown by the full-service Air India. Presently the airline operates 207 daily flights to 22 destinations with its fleet of 31 Airbus A320 aircraft. These include, apart from all the metros, cities and smaller towns such as Agartala, Panaji, Guwahati, Dibrugarh, Patna, Pune, Srinagar and Vadodara and other Indian cities.

Not only this, the domestic air traffic of scheduled domestic carriers also rose 25.1 per cent to 48.75 lakh during November 2010 as against 38.98 lakh in the corresponding month last year. The domestic air traffic was up 19 per cent at 468.09 lakh during January-November of 2010 as against 393.53 lakh during the same period in the previous year.

The recent trends have shown that, the air traffic market has shifted towards low-cost carriers and airlines such as Jet Airways and Kingfisher Airlines have also been quick to adopt themselves towards this trend and hence move their capacity to no-frill arms Jet Konnect and Kingfisher Red.
The Indigo Airlines has also asked for permission from the Indian Government to start International Flights mainly Flights from UAE and also International Flights to India.

Indigo Airlines Plans to have International Flight Services

Indigo Airlines

India's domestic Low cost carrier IndiGo has evinced interest in launching international services on 15 flight routes from 2011 may,and has submitted a proposal to the Indian aviation ministry towards this end.Indigo is headquartered at Gurgaon and has a 16.8% share in the Indian domestic passenger markets close to meeting the specifications and eligibility for starting International operations as it will complete five years of local operations in August 2011.

Presently IndiGo has in its fleet 32 A320s will be having at least 16 Airbus A320 aircraft by the time it  launches international operations. The sectors identified by the Airlines for the first phase of operations are Dubai, Bangkok, Singapore, Kathmandu, Jeddah, the Maldives, Abu Dhabi and Sharjah thus mostly focussing on the middle east markets and the India's neighboring countries.Further most of the destinations will be connected with New Delhi, Mumbai, Kozhikode, Kochi and Thiruvananthapuram besides flights between besides between Chennai and Singapore.

The flights booking for the Middle east regions are always a lucrative proposition as the existing flights are running at an occupancy of 70-80%. Besides Air India, Kingfisher Airlines and Jet Airways , dedicated airlines such as Air India Express have their successful opeartions in the middleeast region. Emirates airlines is also one of the major airlines having its presence in the flights to India to the Middle east and vice-versa.

Cheap Flights to India: The impact of DGCA Instructions to Airlines

Flights to India

After the DGCA instructions to the airlines to publish the airfares on their website well in advance there is a growing debate on the impact of the step on Air ticket pricing and the next move by airlines. The common thinking among the travel agents and ticketing portals is that the disclosures of fares on airline websites will be of little use to passengers unless they plan their air travel well in advance.

Now that the domestic airline websites will have to publish route-wise tariff information on their networks for various fare brackets, they are expected to give a range of fare slabs for each route on their websites at the beginning of each month, for tickets booked 21 days, 14 days and 7 days in advance of their date of travel. While this disclosure is expected to improve transparency for passengers, it may lead to general rise in Airfares for even the passengers who book well in advance as the last minute flight deals  would be on a downswing.

But this do not mean that passengers cannot expect Cheap air ticket deals, if they book well in advance. Passengers who book in advance are the ones who are likely to get the cheapest and the best deals as presently at least 50 percent of the people book flight tickets one week in advance which allows the airlines to plan their last minute offering in optimal manner.

Another point of interest is whether the airlines, even if they provide the route tariff information, would publish user friendly data. For example for the tariffs published on route basis, most airlines have omitted some or the other detail.  For instance, the fine print below the page states that these published fares  do not include passenger service fee, user development fee, transaction fee and service tax. Similarly most airlines do not bother to explain to its customers the airline jargon used on the tariff pages. But it may be noted that most of the international flights carriers follow what the DGCA has instructed to the Indian Airlines.The impact on Airlines Booking is still to be analyzed.

More Cheap Flights option for UAE: Nasair announces new routes for UAE Flights

NasAir Flights To India

Saudi Arabia's  Budget airline carrier 'Nasair', which commenced its  operations in late 2007 is in an expansion mode and has recently announced launch of many new routes both within Saudi Aarbia and internationally. The Airlines operates more than 400 flights every week and has now announced launch of its flight service to Dubai as well. Middle east has been on the radar for expansion for the airlines and its next moves is been watched by the competitors. The Airlines is now running 10 flights a week between Dubai and Saudi Arabia. There have been recent Spurt in visitors from Dubai to Saudi Arabia and the Airlines is expecting to tap into this growing market.

The airlines expansion plans include 18 flights per week from Riyadh, Jeddah and Al Dammam to Dubai by the year 2011. Besides these  flights The Airlines also operates flights to Syria, Sudan and Cheap Flights to India.

The modern Nassair fleet is operational in more than 24 domestic and international destinations with the next phase of expansion catering to the Growing Indian Flights sector, which is rapidly growing in international traffic particularly to the Gulf region, particularly for Travel and Leisure.The airlines is also exploring the Chandigarh Flights.