Today, I flew the inaugural flight of Vistara’s International operations, between Delhi and Singapore, and here is an indepth review of what to expect on Vistara’s flight to Singapore.
Vistara Delhi Bangkok flights will be launched on August 27, 2019, making the newest Indian airline to fly this route and the first one to offer a three-class service on this route.
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Vistara Dubai flights will be launched from Mumbai on August 21, 2019 as a daily three-class service using the Airbus A320 aircraft of the airline.
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.
The story of a weather disruption, misconnect, and how a Visa On Arrival saved the day. Here is the developing story of my flight from Mumbai to Paris on Etihad.
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.
