Passengers in Qatar airways can now travel seamlessly to and from India, over 150 destinations on single ticket
The Dollar Business Bureau Qatar Airways and Vistara on Tuesday entered into an interline partnership, under which customers of the two carriers will have seamless travel to and from India to over 150 destinations. The partnership is effective from Monday, Qatar Airways said in a media release. The Gulf carrier currently operates to 13 cities in India from Doha while Vistara, the Tata-SIA run domestic carrier operates to 18 domestic destinations. An interline arrangement refers to a pact to issue and accept tickets for flights that are operated by the partner airline. When selling an interline ticket, the operating airline's own flight numbers are used. According to the Interline partnership arrangement, passengers holding a Qatar airways’ can travel seamlessly to and from a wide range ...
Indian domestic air traffic in Mar 2017 grew slowest since Sept 2015
The Dollar Business Bureau As per the measure of revenue passenger kilometres (RPK), a unit used to measure passenger volume, International Air Transport Association (IATA) reported that India’s domestic passenger traffic, during the month of March 2017, grew at the slowest rate since September 2015. “China overtakes India as the fastest growing domestic market,” the monthly report stated. Monthly air passenger market analysis report released by the international association, recorded a robust 7% first quarter global growth in passenger demand, which is well ahead of the long-run average of around 5.5%. However, the report cited the reasons for slow demand growth in India to be the ‘reduced cash supply’ and ‘wider economic uncertainty’. To add to this sombre result, ICRA’s report further dulled the ...
