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Club Vistara announced a wide range of changes today, which included some perks for Platinum members and Gold members, but essentially took away a lot of the value from the programme in a broad reorganisation of their routes where many routes now require as much as double points for upgrades and so on. Here is an update.
Air Tanzania launched 3x weekly 787-8 flights to Mumbai but operated an A220-300 on July 24, 2019. They may deploy the A220-300 regularly to Mumbai as they launch flights to London in December 2019.
SpiceJet has applied for slots to operate flights to London Heathrow and Manchester with an A330-300. It plans to operate daily flights on both the routes.
Ethiopian Airlines operates twice-daily flights from Addis Ababa to Mumbai and Delhi each. Ethiopian Airlines is now adding 4x weekly flights to Bengaluru from Addis Ababa.
IndiGo is developing Kolkata as a hub and is focussing on the Buddhist circuit. IndiGo added flights from Gaya to Kolkata and Varanasi and also to Hong Kong from Kolkata. In addition, IndiGo is adding a new flight to Yangon from Kolkata.
Boeing announced their second quarter results yesterday. Boeing expects the 737 MAX to come back in service by the end of this year, or otherwise, they will have to reduce production, or even shut down the line for a while perhaps. On the 777X, they expect the aircraft to have a delayed entry into service now due to engine issues.
Facial Recognition at Hyderabad Airport was launched on a test basis in the beginning of July 2019. I tried out the entire process today, and here is how the system works out for now.
A new promotion is offering 50% bonus JPMiles to HDFC Bank’s JetPrivilege credit card customers. Here is how the promotion works.
Air India will add non-stop flights between Mumbai and Nairobi from September 27, 2019, which they will operate 4x weekly flights with a Boeing 787-8 on this route.
American Express is back with a great new promotion, which is offering around 10 times the usual number of Membership Rewards for making a hotel or a flight reservation with your American Express cards through August 2019.
In case you still haven’t received your Jet Airways refund, you should file a claim with the Jet Airways Insolvency team so that your name gets reflected as a creditor to the airline when payouts are made of any remaining money with the airline.
