News Source – Deccanherald
Though the industry is not raking in huge profits, they are nevertheless reducing losses significantly, writes B S Arun

After seeing their earnings touch rock-bottom owing to a series of issues including the recent worldwide recession, there seems to a faint light at the end of the tunnel for the airlines industry both [...]

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After a turbulent spell Jet Airways looks at a turnaround

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Jet Airways carried 8.69 lakh revenue passengers in May 2010, registering a buoyant 41.2 per cent increase as compared to the same period last year. The seat factor for Jet Airways’ domestic operations also stood at 82.5 per cent, a marked improvement over the same period last year and also a ten per cent increase [...]

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The tag of having one of the riskiest runways (barely 1954m long) notwithstanding, the city’s Jayaprakash Narayan International Airport has emerged number one in 2009-10 among 46 airports in the country in terms of percentage growth of domestic passengers as well as domestic aircraft movement.
According to Patna airport director Arvind Dubey: “Introduction of low-cost [...]

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Faced with opposition from key allies, the ministerial panel on fuels is unlikely to free up the motor fuel pricing regime when it meets on Monday but is almost certain to go for a marginal increase in prices of petrol and diesel with a view to reducing the amount of cash subsidy the [...]

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News source – Mid Day
Fifty passengers began praying fervently, when the aircraft they were travelling in, started shuddering in bad weather, soon after it took off from Kochi airport yesterday.
Seven days after the Mangalore air crash that killed 158 persons, the memory returned to haunt passengers of a Jet Konnect flight 2734 that was headed [...]

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