Category Archives for Aviation.
Air Vistara and OptionTown have been together offering ancillary services on the airline for a few years now. However, Vistara has now discontinued the contract and OptionTown won’t be an option any longer.
AirAsia has launched new PPE Suits, which will be used by cabin crew while operating flights here on. In the airline’s signature touch, this PPE is Red in colour but are fully functional. Have a look!
While it is all quiet on the flying front at the moment, Mumbai Airport is working towards re-opening in a post-CoVid-19 lockdown world, an era where social distancing will be the norm. Here are some pictures and what to expect the next time you turn up to fly from Mumbai Airport.
Emirates is getting together more resources to process the refunds of over half a million trips which were cancelled due to the CoronaVirus. Even then, refund processing is expected to last till August 2020.
Boeing, over the past 24 hours, has cancelled a deal to purchase 80% of Embraer’s commercial aviation business as the timelines to close the deal expired yesterday. Embraer states that it was ready to close the deal but it was wrongfully terminated.
Emirates Commercial flights are planned to be resumed on July 1 for the moment. However, Emirates has put in place new service protocols which involve strictly no meals except on long-haul flights (repacked) and social distancing measures. No cabin bags allowed as well.
Aviointeriors, an Italian seat maker, has filed for a patent on a new radical design of seats (for economy class!) which promises to protect from CoVid-19, and perhaps even making conversation with a pesky neighbour on the plane.
I call upon the entire LFAL community to come together and help those who have their refunds stuck. Tell us and if we can, we will help you with the combined wisdom of the entire bunch to give you a direction to get your refunds.
Airbus has now started e-delivering aircraft. That does not mean the aircraft are flying themselves home, but it does mean the customer no longer has to be setting up a shop inside Airbus to collect each and every plane of theirs.
Aditya Ghosh, Sanjiv Kapoor and Rahul Taneja, on one panel. For a fun conversation which covered some of their challenges at their airlines and how things are working out for them after their aviation stints.
All the airlines operating inside India, as well as operating flights to India, have been told to stop the sale of flights to/from/within India till further notice, to make sure that the airlines won’t be able to take new reservations for the time being.
