As well as cutting down fares, airlines are offering enticing incentives for prospective travelers. US airline Delta are offering unlimited free alcohol on flights to Australia – to all ticket classes.
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London, UK (PRWEB) June 24, 2009 — Flights to Australia are at an all-time low, according to travel firm Dialaflight. The price of a flight to Perth has fallen from around £810 to as little as £399 in just six months.
As well as slashing fares, airlines are offering enticing incentives for prospective travelers. US airline Delta are offering unlimited free alcohol on flights to Australia – to all ticket classes. Read more
Increasing numbers of air passengers are turning to self-service options when it comes to procedures such as flight check-in, a new survey has revealed.
More than a fifth of travellers flying with the airlines polled by aviation IT organisation SITA in its 2007 Airline IT Trends survey now use the internet to check-in, it was found. In addition, carriers said they expect this to rise to 35 per cent by the end of 2008.
The use of self-service kiosks at airports was also discovered to be on the increase, with 37 per cent of travellers set to use these facilities by the end of 2, rising to 49 per cent next year.
“Airlines are increasingly using web check-in because they want to make travel easier for their passengers,” commented Paul Coby, chairman of SITA.
“What could be simpler than going online and checking yourself in?” Read more
Air France and Delta Air Lines have announced the signing of an agreement to partner over certain transatlantic routes once next year’s open skies pact comes into effect.
The two airlines will shares costs and revenues under the deal, which is set to result in more options for travellers looking to fly from London to the USA, they announced today.
All of the carriers’ transatlantic flights are affected by the agreement, including those between Heathrow Airport and the USA, which will be operated on a codeshare basis.
From 2010, services between all European, Mediterranean and North American destinations will fall within the agreement’s remit.
“This agreement marks an unprecedented move to offer our customers a greater choice of routes and schedules,” commented Jean-Cyril Spinetta of Air France and Richard Anderson of Delta. Read more
MOSCOW. (Nikita Petrov for RIA Novosti) – India has signed a contract with Russia for the licensed assembly of 40 multi-role Su-30MKI (Flanker-H) fighter jets, news agencies reported last week.
According to experts, the agreement will cost India more than $1.5 billion. It will be a follow-up to the contract concluded in 2000 to deliver 140 fighters of the same type to New Delhi.
The contractor will be the Irkut Scientific Production Corporation in Irkutsk, a part of the Sukhoi Aviation Holding Company (AHK). It assembles practically all the Su planes Moscow supplies to the subcontinent.
Under the first contract, Russia was not only to start supplying India with jets from 2000, but also to sell it a license to manufacture them at Indian plants. This was duly done, but local production of the aircraft turned out to be too costly. A far better option was buying them almost ready-made from the manufacturer in Irkutsk. Read more
MOSCOW. (Nikita Petrov for RIA Novosti) – India has signed a contract with Russia for the licensed assembly of 40 multi-role Su-30MKI (Flanker-H) fighter jets, news agencies reported last week.
According to experts, the agreement will cost India more than $1.5 billion. It will be a follow-up to the contract concluded in 2000 to deliver 140 fighters of the same type to New Delhi.
The contractor will be the Irkut Scientific Production Corporation in Irkutsk, a part of the Sukhoi Aviation Holding Company (AHK). It assembles practically all the Su planes Moscow supplies to the subcontinent.
Under the first contract, Russia was not only to start supplying India with jets from 2000, but also to sell it a license to manufacture them at Indian plants. This was duly done, but local production of the aircraft turned out to be too costly. A far better option was buying them almost ready-made from the manufacturer in Irkutsk. Read more
