Aviation’s Lockdown opened up last week, but hardly anyone flew. 45% loads on an average means airlines are most probably losing money on every flight they operate. Let’s see how the flights operated last week.
If you were thinking of flying into India or heading outside the country over the next few weeks, let’s forget it. India has formally announced that all flights outside the country will not be operative until at least June 30, 2020.
Presenting an opportunity to talk to the team behind an airline. For the next edition, we have invited people from across the functions of Vistara to chat with our readers about how they spent time at home, and how they are helping people fly again, now that we are back up in the air.
Air India has released new plans for their repatriation flights from India to the other countries. Here are all the flights up for sale in case you want to fly to another country from India at the moment.
HDFC Bank’s Smartbuy promotion is back for yet another month. This means you can get up to 33% cashback yet again for one more month, because you have the Smartbuy promotion working for you!
American Express is rewarding their Platinum Cardmembers by giving them 100% cashback for online and offline purchases until August 2020. For this, you need to register. All the details are inside.
Emirates has recently stopped applying fuel surcharge to tickets, which means also Skywards has become a great opportunity to use your miles for redemptions and not just upgrades.
In some good news coming for passengers, Changi Airport is ready for reopening from June 2, 2020. In the initial days, only transit passengers will be allowed at the airport.
As flights opened up again, we found the first asymptomatic traveller having carried the virus onboard an IndiGo flight on Monday, May 25, 2020. The entire crew has been pulled out for 14 days.
KLM today operated a repatriation flight to India in a first for an international carrier to bring back Indians home stranded in other parts of the world.
A new Qatar Airways Status Match opportunity is available through May 28, 2020. The provisions are a straight-up status match for 12 months, and an opportunity to re-qualify for status at half the usual number of points required.
