Category Archives for Aviation.
You can now get confirmed business class upgrades for a fee when you book directly with them, at the time of booking. No more waiting for an invite or hoping that you have the winning bid.
Vistara World, Vistara’s streaming IFE service will be launched across the fleet in August 2018 and will provide 70 hours plus of audiovisual content. You need to bring your own device to consume the content, however.
Announcing Vistara LIte: The new Vistara economy class fares which will be rolled out across the carrier in August 2018. Lot’s of interesting changes on the fares coming this month on board Vistara.
Starting with GoAir passengers, Delhi Airport will introduce the process to stop stamping boarding passes of passengers in August. This means, no ink on your shirt pocket and hopefully a faster security check process.
Shocking! Bed Bugs bit little kids in Air India Business Class on a 17 hour long New York to Mumbai flight. Air India is still ‘investigating’ the issue.
The United Polaris Newark to Mumbai flight takes off in October 2018, with the airline upgrading the Mumbai non-stop daily service to a Boeing 777-300ER on the back of Delta launching services to Mumbai next year!
The title for the World’s Longest Flight is set to return to Singapore Airlines, with a little help from Airbus. This year, Singapore Airlines will get to restart non-stop flights between Singapore and New York, followed by Singapore to Los Angeles as well!
Vistara has now placed a new aircraft order to the tune of 50 narrowbody aircraft (13 buy, 37 lease) and 6 widebody aircraft to expand operations. They’ve ordered aircraft both from Boeing and Airbus for their expansion plans.
The Boeing Embraer Partnership has finally taken off. The MoU announces a 80:20 Joint Venture between the two aircraft manufacturers, transaction to be completed over the next 18-20 months
Live From A Lounge gets you the pictures and the details of the first Jet Airways 737 MAX aircraft that has arrived in India and will be pressed into service tomorrow. There are significant improvements for the customers once they travel on this new aircraft!
Last week, the India Australia Open Skies agreement was signed. Under the new agreement, India and Australia carriers will be able to launch an unlimited number of flights to 6 airports in each of the other countries.
