Air India Plans to Recommence Services to Africa

Indian national airline, Air India is planning to restart direct services to East African nations in order to cater to the growing demand for tickets on flights between India and Africa among business as well as leisure travellers. 

According to the India’s Civil Aviation Minister, the carrier is planning to start operations to Africa soon. There is great potential considering the increasing traffic between India and some of the African countries. 

Africa has emerged as one of fastest growing aviation sectors in the world. There has been significant boost in tourist inflow and demand for tickets aboard flights among business as well as leisure travellers. 

The flag carrier of India is going to be the first Indian passenger carrier to offer tickets on flights for services to Africa.  The airline is mulling to run services to Nairobi and hoping to draw all kinds of passengers like medical tourists, professionals, transit fliers and students. 

The airline revealed that it is looking forward to run flights to Nairobi from Delhi. They used to operate services nearly a decade ago from Mumbai, the financial centre of India.  

Middle East-based airlines like Dubai’s Emirates and Abu Dhabi’s Etihad Airways have been providing tickets on flights between India and Africa and are currently the only dependable air link between the destinations. Even US-based passenger airlines are focusing on their presence in African markets. Furthermore, Kenya Airways, South African Airlines and Ethiopian Airlines are looking forward to grow their operations to India, offering seamless connectivity and flexible options to passengers seeking tickets on flights running on the sector.

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India's Low-cost Airlines Serving International Routes

Given the growth of India’s aviation sector, a good number of low-cost carriers have mushroomed in the country that not only offer wide-connectivity within the nation, but also connect to foreign destinations. With cheap airfares for flights tickets and the assurance of comfortable air travel, these airlines enjoy immense popularity among domestic as well as foreign flyers who seek tickets options to fly to and from India. Read on to know more! 

Air India Express

The low-cost subsidiary of Air India, Air India Express is based in Mumbai and offers flights tickets to India and from Indian airports. It provides services majorly from Kerala, a state in South India, to many cities in Middle East and Southeast Asia. Surely, it is one of the best options for budget travellers seeking tickets deals on flights to popular metropolises like Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Bahrain, Bangkok and Colombo.

Spice Jet

Headquartered in Chennai, SpiceJet has prominent hubs in Chennai, Mumbai, Delhi and Kolkata. The carrier is highly popular for its vast offerings of reasonably priced flights tickets to travel to Dubai, UAE; Malé, Maldives; Kabul, Afghanistan and Kathmandu, Nepal. SpiceJet is in the expansion mode and is looking forward to begin its operations to Riyadh in UAE and Guangzhou in China. Its fleet of modern aircrafts are configured with single passenger class, and feature refined passenger in-flight services that aptly cater to the needs of passengers who book flights tickets with the airline.  

Indigo is another recognized airline that offers flights services and cheap options to fly to Gulf, Southeast and Indian Ocean destinations.

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Air India Deploys B787 Dreamliners on London-Mumbai Route

Air India fans looking to grab tickets to travel on the sleek Dreamliner aircrafts can now relish their much coveted dream. India’s national carrier has announced booking of tickets on its long haul London-Mumbai flights aboard its sleek Dreamliner aircrafts starting from next week.

In the recent months, the airline kicked off its services to popular international routes like Frankfurt and Dubai aboard Dreamliner planes.

Air India’s Boeing 787 airliners have been configured to offer tickets for 18 full-flat business class seats and 238 economy class seats. With the new, game-changer planes, India’s national carrier is hopeful of tapping the increasingly high number of tourists who look for flights tickets to travel on the famous London-Mumbai sector.

Owing to the extremely delayed delivery of the Dreamliners, the airline was compelled to operate flights to popular international routes of London, Frankfurt, Tokyo, Seoul and Shanghai using its Boeing-777 aircrafts. But-777 aircrafts are usually not very fuel efficient and are meant to be operated for flights on short-haul sectors. 

However, Boeing 787 are typically long- haul aircrafts optimised for flights of over 15 hours and are around 20 percent more fuel-efficient as compared to other similarly-sized airliners. It would now be interesting to see if the carrier would be keen on passing on the benefits to delight its passengers with cheap flight tickets to India and other travel deals on its popular Mumbai-London route.

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Air India shows good financial results

The Indian carrier revealed it had an operating surplus of Rs 49.48 crore (£6.6 million) in the final month of last year.

Air India has reported strong financial results for December 2010, posting a record cash profit compared with the previous month.

In November, the airline had made a profit of Rs 21.66 crore.

According to Air India, this boost in income can be attributed to a "significant improvement in efficiency parameters" and the take-up of "better yield management strategies".

"With the launch of the new state-of-the-art Passenger Service System later this month, we expect a further boost to our efforts to improve our efficiency parameters," revealed Arvind Jadhav, chairman and managing director of Air India.

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