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GoM
meeting on airports fails to reach consensus
New
Delhi: A crucial meeting of empowered Group of
Ministers on restructuring Delhi and Mumbai airports
today remained inconclusive. It was chaired by Defence
Minister Pranab Mukherjee and attended by Finance
Minister P Chidambaram, Commerce Minister Kamal Nath
and Civil Aviation Minister Praful Patel. Emerging
from the meeting, Patel said, "The meeting remained
inconclusive because of want of time. Several issues
were discussed but no final decision has been taken."
The GoM was called to finalise the request for proposal
(RFP) document meant for technical and financial bidding
by nine private consortia, a television channel report
said. The RFP document would list the requirements
of new facilities on the civil side of the two airports,
besides the additional task of slum clearance for
expansion of Mumbai's Chhatrapati Shivaji Airport.
On the basis of the response received on these documents
the joint venture partners of the Airports Authority
of India would be shortlisted for Delhi and Mumbai
airports.
- Feb 15, 2005
IA
offers 16 flights for 65 thousand (Go
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New
Delhi: To attract and win over the growing number
of air travellers in the country, Indian Airlines
today announced the launch of its 'Bumper Super Saver'
scheme providing 16 flight coupons to anywhere on
the domestic sector for Rs 65,000. The latest scheme
from the Indian Airlines does not require any kind
of advance purchase or any other booking condition.
The new scheme is going to be launched from tomorrow,
February 16 and the tickets would be valid for one
year from the date of issue. "The passenger can take
these coupons and go straight to the airport and board
a flight, provided seats are available," said the
IA Director (PR) Manjira Khurana. A limited number
of coupons have been printed, which would be sold
at the IA offices throughout the country. Each coupon
would cost on an average a little over Rs 4,000, can
be used for any domestic destination, barring travel
on four sectors - Delhi to Kochi, Kozhikode, Thiruvananthapuram
and Coimbatore and vice versa, where two coupons would
be required for a single flight.
- Feb 15, 2005
Awadh
food festival on Air India flight (Go
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New
Delhi: With Indian cuisine gaining universal acceptance
and Air-India's food having always earned accolades
from passengers, there is a constant endeavour to
upgrade the meals. To add excitement to in flight
service, Air- India in collaboration with Taj SATS
Air Catering has organised 'Awadh Food Festival' to
offer a variety of food to its passengers. Awadh,
once the capital of the independent Kingdom of Oudh,
rose to culinary heights in the late eighteenth century.
The succulent kebabs, delicious curries and sumptuous
pulao of this city have a distinct flavour and richness.
The menus for the Awadh Food Festival, will be presented
in collaboration with Ambassador's Sky Chef and Taj
SATS Air Catering, Air-India's caterers in Delhi.
The special menus for the festival have been created
by expert chefs following age-old recipes and processes.
"The main idea is that the passengers who travelled
a lot must get a variety of food. Indian cuisine is
very much popular in different parts of the world,
so we have come up with some special food items, especially
we have some very delicious kebabs in our menu and
I hope passengers will enjoy this festival," said
Arvind Saraswat, Director, Food Production, Taj SATS
Air Catering.
During
the mont-long food festival, food lovers of the world
will have the opportunity of savouring the exotic
culinary of India , while winging their way across
the skies on bound Air-India's flights from Delhi
to London, Frankfurt and the Gulf. At present Air-India
operates 17 weekly services to London, will soon see
the largest number of airlines operating between India
and London, with almost 80 flights a week. "We are
indeed very happy to organise this food festival.
We feel that something new should be served to the
passengers, so we discussed the idea with experts
and finally we decided to organise a food festival.
Among the special items are the kebabs," said Dennis
Ong, Director, Taj SATS, Delhi. The delectable delicacies
for passengers travelling in all the three classes
will feature Paneer Lazzatdar, Narangi Subz, Kofta
Kurry, Khatte Baingan, Dal Masoor and Chilgoza Pulao
for the vegeterians.Non-vegetarians can enjoy Mur
Wazid Shah, Kohe Awadh and Roomali Roti. Besides,
specially designed menu cards will be distributed
to all the passengers.
- Feb 12, 2005
India
invites global players for aviation outsourcing (Go
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Bangalore:
With Bangalore sky becoming a sound theatre of
roaring jets during ongoing Aero India show, India
has called the global aviation companies to take advantage
of its low cost, high talent workforce and infrastructure
for building aircraft and systems for the global market.
"It (Aero India) is an ideal forum to explore business
opportunities, as well as to facilitate joint ventures,
collaborations, tie-ups for mutual benefit. We can,
together, reduce the development and marketing costs,
jointly develop state-of-the-art aviation products
and do joint marketing," said Defence Minister Pranab
Mukherjee. According to him, the presence of over
352 aerospace firms including 225 foreign aircraft
and defence systems firms - Boeing, Airbus, Lockheed
Martin, BAe Systems, MiG and Dassault, at the fifth
Aero India show is testimony to the opportunities
that India offers for joint ventures, technology transfer
and co- production for the global market. Proposals
are in the pipeline to buy 126 supersonic fighters
for Indian Air Force and 50 passenger jets worth seven
billion dollar for Air India. The five-day event at
the Yelahanka Air Base, 25 kilometres from Bangalore,
started with an amazing formation of three Indian
Air Force Mi 8 helicopters in the national tricolour
and ensigns of the IAF. A low-speed composite formation
of three aircraft -- the home grown Advanced Light
Aircraft, the Kiran trainer and the awesome Sukhoi-30
Mki - flying at a low altitude, gave the audience
a taste of things to come, as it was followed by the
intermediate jet trainer, the indigenous aircraft
being built to train IAF pilots for Stage II training.
- Feb 9, 2005
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