SpiceJet will soon announce SpiceBiz, a business class product which will operate on a subset of their aircraft. Here are the details we have so far.
Introducing SpiceBiz, SpiceJet’s new business class offering
Etihad Airways increases flights to London Heathrow to 5X daily
Jet Airways transferred 3 daily London Heathrow slots to Etihad Airways as it temporarily suspended operations. Etihad will now gradually add another 2 daily flights to London to protect those slots, making 5x daily operations.
Singapore Airlines to fly Kolkata’s first A350 service June 2019 onwards
Singapore Airlines will start 10x weekly A350R service to Bengaluru, this month onwards. Kolkata will be the second city in India to receive A350R flights, from June 2019 onwards.
Scoot to discontinue Lucknow to Singapore flights
Lucknow – Singapore has been connected for a long while on a non-stop basis. This non-stop flight will be withdrawn in June 2019 by Scoot.
Qatar Airways introduces Quisine: an upgrade to their economy meal
Qatar Airways is rolling out a new economy class dining experience called Quisine. That just means more food, better food on the plane. Here are the details.
Etihad’s new Economy class seat, smaller meals and buy on board menu
Etihad will introduce a new economy class seat on their narrowbody aircraft, and new dining experience and a buy onboard menu.
IndiGo’s international plans go for a toss
IndiGo added a lot of international routes in the past few months. IndiGo is suspending some international routes to add temporary capacity from Mumbai and Delhi by taking advantage of Jet Airways slots.
Fly Air Tanzania between Mumbai and Dar-Es-Salaam from July 2019
Air Tanzania has been delaying the launch of non-stop flights to Mumbai for quite some time. Finally, they have launched the non-stop flight to Mumbai from Dar es Salaam.
Boeing drops Jet Airways orders from their books
Jet Airways placed a total order for 225 737 MAX and 10 787-9 with Boeing over the years. In light of the shutdown of Jet Airways, Boeing has taken the order off its order book.
4 Jet Airways Airbus A330 are being moved out of the fleet
Jet Airways is losing widebody aircraft at a fast clip now. After letting go 3 widebodies, another 4 have now been queued up to be taken away from the airline’s fleet
Fly Domestic Business Class for just INR 1000 extra
SpiceJet is in the midst of launching a proper Business Class on some of their aircraft, and this presents an opportunity to fly this new Business Class just for INR 1000.
