Hyatt is registering a slow but steady growth in Indian market. Hyatt will open up 5 more hotels in India in 2019. This will be in addition to Alila Diwa, Goa and Alila Fort Bishangarh, Jaipur coming under Hyatt in 2019.
Air India has introduced Bid for Upgrades. You can now bid to upgrade to Business Class or First class on your next Air India flight.
Qatar Airways already has a stake in Air Italy (49%), IAG (20%), LATAM (10%) and Cathay Pacific (9.99%). They have now bought a 5% stake in China Southern Airlines.
Qatar Airways is upgrading the second Doha-New York JFK frequency to an A350-1000 from March 31. They will also upgrade Doha-Singapore frequency to 3x daily A350K. With this, all Qatar Airways flights to New York and Singapore will be operated by A350-1000.
Every year, Mumbai airport has some sort of runway closure for maintenance. Mumbai airport will close both the runways for three days a week from February 7 to March 30, 2019.
Philippine airlines will launch a new nonstop flight on New Delhi-Manila route. The flight will be operated by an Airbus A321neo.
IndiGo is planning to launch flights to Europe and has entered into a codeshare agreement with Turkish Airlines. All the news hints at IndiGo launching flights to Turkey.
AirAsia India inducted the twentieth A320 in its fleet. They will start a red-eye flight on Mumbai-Bengaluru route from January 15, 2019, a day after closing down Surat station.
Department of Telecom has given the final go-ahead for in-flight connectivity a few days back. Airlines are gearing up to launch in-flight wifi. Some are already equipped to offer wifi while some may have to start from scratch.
NokScoot, a Thai LCC is launching 4x weekly flights on New Delhi-Bangkok route. NokScoot is currently offering some great introductory fares and combining it with free Visa on arrival makes a great deal.
The first refurbished section of the non-Schengen Crown lounge at Amsterdam Airport is now open to the public. The entire lounge will open in. Summer of 2019 and coincide with KLM’s 100th anniversary.
