
Air India will offer women-only seating on their flights. This is a new facility they intend to offer next week onwards, and one that they say will enhance the safety of women passengers in the air. Uh Oh!
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The country that sends half-a-million visitors to Hong Kong will no longer have people just arrive at their doors. Instead, you will need to do some paperwork before arriving. Read more about Hong Kong’s pre-arrival formalities for Indians valid 23 January 2017.
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Most of us have no trouble getting a UAE visa issued as long as we are flying one of the two UAE based airlines. However, this time my situation was slightly unique and that led to a bit of an anxiety pang I must admit!
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If you are passing through the 6 metro airports in India, you will notice the queues move faster here on. This is because there will be a simplified security process going forward at these airports. How does that sound??
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One of the byproducts of not having enough high value currency in circulation is that people no longer have money to pay parking charges at the airport. Hence, parking across all Indian airports is free for the whole week going forward.
With the sunsetting of the INR 500 and INR 1000 currency notes, today is the last day you could use them to book any kind of travel with them. Here is how to get some air tickets out of those pieces of paper around your home!