September 29, 2011, 12:33 AM EDT
By Chris Cooper and Kiyotaka Matsuda
Sept. 29 (Bloomberg) — AirAsia X Sdn., the long-haul affiliate of Asia’s biggest discount carrier, may add at least 60 more aircraft to support possible hubs in Japan and Australia.
The carrier, which has a backlog of 30 Airbus SAS planes, “could triple our orders,” Chief Executive Officer Azran Osman Rani said in an interview in Tokyo yesterday. “The existing orders are conservative.” He declined to give specific details on how many planes the carrier may add or when.
Kuala Lumpur-based AirAsia X may open a base in Japan to work with affiliate AirAsia Bhd.’s planned venture in the country, Rani said. The long-haul carrier and Qantas Airways Ltd.’s Jetstar have won passengers from full-service carriers in Asia with low fares, prompting Singapore Airlines Ltd. to draw up plans for its own budget long-haul unit.
AirAsia X may eventually operate flights to Guam and Honolulu from Japan on behalf of AirAsia Bhd.’s venture with All Nippon Airways Co., Rani said. The long-haul carrier, which currently flies to cities including London from Malaysia, may also open a base in Australia.
“A unit in Australia is definitely a possibility,” Rani said. Still, it will probably take at least two years before this happens, he said.
AirAsia X’s plans to hold an initial public offering have been delayed by talks to sell a 10 percent stake to Khazanah Nasional Bhd., Malaysia’s state-controlled investment company, Rani said. The sale is part of a wider deal that also included the purchase of a stake in Malaysian Airline System Bhd. by Tony Fernandes and other AirAsia Bhd. shareholders.
AirAsia X is currently owned by AirAsia Bhd., Richard Branson’s Virgin Group Ltd., Manara Consortium, based in Bahrain, and ORIX Corp., based in Japan.
–Editors: Neil Denslow, Vipin Nair
To contact the reporter on this story: Chris Cooper in Tokyo at ccooper1@bloomberg.net; Kiyotaka Matsuda in Tokyo at kmatsuda@bloomberg.net
To contact the editor responsible for this story: Neil Denslow at ndenslow@bloomberg.net
Article source: http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-09-29/airasia-x-may-add-60-more-planes-open-hubs-in-japan-australia.html
PRLog (Press Release) – Sep 29, 2011 – London, September 29, 2011- One of the leading travel companies of London ‘Hoodaki’ is offering some great offers on air tickets for all those who are planning to go on a day trip, business trip or family holiday to far-off destinations. As the months of October and November are perfect time to travel, many airlines are offering good deals over the air tickets during this season.
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Dillie Keane … Fascinating Aida and the world since 1983
Dillie Keane is the founder member and principal song-writer (with Adele Anderson) of Fascinating Aida. The legendary group is on a tour with Cheap Flights, their brand new show. Now a global internet sensation with more than six million hits on YouTube, Fascinating Aida is appearing in theatres around the UK and will be at London’s Charing Cross Theatre from 8 December to 7 January 2012. www.fascinatingaida.co.uk.
Cheapflights: What do you always do when you travel – any routine procedures?
Dillie Keane: Oh indeed we do. When we’re going on holiday, we always try to get there early enough to (a) do a quick emergency shop at Boots for mini shampoos etc., and then to have a relatively leisurely lunch at one of the seafood bars the other side of customs. A crab salad and a bottle of crisp Chablis is a cracking way to start our holiday. If I’m travelling for work, it’s the same routine, but without the Chablis.
CF: What is your travel pet peeve?
DK: Having to go left, right, left, right, left, right, left, right through those taped-off “corridors” when they’re empty. They’re obviously a good way of organising large queues, but why on earth don’t they open them when it’s quiet? Oh, and being taken for a terrorist when I’m discovered with a 125ml bottle of body lotion in my hand-luggage. Really, what threat does a middle-aged broad with well-moisturised skin pose? Use your discretion, oh ye Customs Operatives, puh-lease.
CF: Best destination you have ever been to and why?
DK: We had the most fabulous, wonderful, sensational holiday in Sri Lanka a couple of years ago. I didn’t know what to expect, but I absolutely loved it. The people were charming, the island is very pretty, the culture is interesting, we went with a very good company – not top-of-the-range, just a reliable, nice company. The elephant orphanage was absolutely fantastic. We had so many laughs there with our driver who was really nice, but terribly anxious all the time, and tried to get us to buy things (I think he might have been on commission!). And his accent was quite strong, so we kept misunderstanding him which he found as hilarious as we did. And we ended up spending eight days on the Indian Ocean in the nicest hotel I’ve ever been to. It was absolute magic.
CF: Where in the world offers the best value for money?
DK: Golly, that’s a tough question! We’re quite fussy about our food, and think France is terrific value, because you can eat so well there. Little bistros take huge pride in what they serve, and you don’t have to opt for haute cuisine to eat great French food. Their markets are marvellous, so if you’re self-catering you can eat like a king for much less than you’d spend on the same kind of produce here.
CF: Is there anywhere you think offers great value and a great deal?
DK: America is great value for various reasons; cheap motels, cheap fuel, cheap car hire and although the food is not fancy, they give you very large portions! And the Americans are such friendly and generous people, there are wonderful holidays of every kind to be had there.
CF: What is the best airport you have flown from, and is there a tip to make this airport experience great?
DK: Um… I tend to think airports are the invention of the devil, because flying has become such a trial. However, I positively adore Alderney Airport, because it’s just a hut and a landing strip. We’ve performed in Alderney a few times, and our hosts always come down to wave us off. We get onto the little planes and look out of the window, and there they are, waving us off at the other side of the fence. Adorable!
CF: When you fly, is there a tip you can share to make the experience a great one?
DK: Indeed there is. Bring your own food! A tray of sushi, a packet of macaroons and a banana each.
Fascinating Aida … Adele Anderson, Liza Pulman and Dillie Keane
CF: If there was one travel nightmare trip, where would it be to and what would it involve?
DK: The only time I’ve travelled club class across the Atlantic was from DFW to Heathrow some years ago, and I was really excited about going club class. However, I was sharing the cabin with a load of drunken oilmen. After consuming a few scotches each, and conversing with one another at the tops of their voices, they fell asleep one by one and the snoring chorus was at ear-drum bursting levels. Honestly, you’ve heard of the Bay of Pigs – well, this was the Baying of Pigs. And the man behind me kept falling forward and banging his head really hard on my seat. It didn’t wake him up, but it certainly prevented me from getting any rest. I begged to be taken back down to Sardine Class, but that was full. And I offered to pay to upgrade to First Class, but it was full too. And I had to go straight to a series of meetings… I wouldn’t want to do that again.
CF: With your show named Cheap Flights, do you have a favourite budget carrier?
DK: Er… no. They’re all much of a muchness, really.
CF: What was the cheapest flight you have ever taken – can you let us know the airline, price, destination?
DK: I’ve never got any of those incredible bargains (like 9p to Tallinn) because (a) I don’t particularly want to go to Tallinn, (b) they’re gone by the time I log on, (c) I can’t necessarily plan my life far enough in advance to get the amazing deals and (d) I don’t want to have to spend the kind of time on the computer that you need to really nab the cheapest options. I wouldn’t go somewhere just because I’d seen a flight for 50p advertised, which I know some people do. I fly either because I have to for work reasons, or because I fancy a holiday in a particular destination. And, if I can, I fly with scheduled airlines, as the overall experience is so much more pleasant. It’s worth the extra expense. However, I paid about £35 for a flight to Kerry recently, which seemed very good value. It was Ryanair – but of course!
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Kingfisher Airlines has decided to do away with its low-cost carrier, Kingfisher Red, and focus on its premium segment. Debt-strapped, Kingfisher plans to shut down the budget carrier in four months. Vijay Mallya, the airline group’s chairman, said on Wednesday that several measures have been initiated to tackle the financial problems caused by high interest burden and rapidly increasing fuel costs. The announcement has left the competitors and analysts cross-eyed as low-cost air travel is supposed to be currently the hottest thing in Indian aviation sector. “We are doing away with Kingfisher Red because we do not intend to compete in the low-cost segment,” Mr Mallya was quoted as stating by reporters on the sidelines of the airline’s shareholder meeting. “We believe that there are more than enough guests who prefer to travel the full service Kingfisher class and that shows through in our own performance where load factors in the Kingfisher class are more than Kingfisher Red,” he continued. The ‘doing away’ is surely not a good news for Indian travellers who seek cheap air tickets on flights. Even international travellers on Indian holidays who hope to land up with cheap flight tickets while travelling within India will be left with limited choices. Kingfisher first burst onto the Indian aviation scene in the year 2005 as a full-service airline. In 2008, the airline made an entry into the low-cost segment when it bought out Air Deccan – India’s first budget airline. The move resulted in Kingfisher Airlines being publicly listed as well as offering cheap flight tickets to budget travellers. “Clearly the margins of Kingfisher Class are better than Kingfisher Red as the yields are better”, Vijay Mallya said, adding that reconfiguration of aircraft has already begun and should be concluded over the next four months. The company later issued a statement that asserted that the airline is undertaking cabin reconfiguration “which will add significant number of seats and, hence, generate additional revenue at minimal cost.” “All of Kingfisher’s Airbus aircraft will have a first class with incremental seats in economy. At this time Kingfisher will be dropping the Kingfisher Red class of service. This effort will be concluded in the next four months,” the statement read. Cash-Strapped Kingfisher has never made profit since its inception and now the firm believes that it needs extra cash as the airline struggles to survive in a challenging market. The airline intended to raise $250-$350 million through an issue of global depositary receipts but did not follow through on the plan. Kingfisher also tried to attract private equity investment but it also didn’t work out. “Kingfisher continues to work with the consortium of banks to further reduce the interest cost. Some of the proposed initiatives include sale and lease-back of some of its aircraft and other assets to reduce loans and converting part of its rupee loans into low-cost forex loans,” Mallya was quoted by different news portals. Deviation from the Market Trend Indian aviation is a fast growing market with firms like Boeing and Airbus inundated with orders worth $50 billion for the Indian carriers. The growing economy of the country is likely to spruce up the business travel among the executive class, while the middle class is set to expand the business of low-cost carriers. Kingfisher’s strategy seems to be completely opposite to that of Jet Airways, country’s market leader in terms of passenger carried. Last month, Jet Airways announced its plans to increase the proportion of its low-fare flights, from 72% to 85-95% in the next five years. It is reported that three out of every four tickets sold by the Jet Airways is in the low-cost flight segment.
Article source: http://www.southalltravel.co.uk/news/India/90402032/Kingfisher-Airlines-to-Shutdown-Low-Cost-Business.html
Southwest Airlines runs a tight ship. Just ask Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong, who was escorted off an Oakland-to-Burbank flight earlier this month because his pants were too saggy. Or Kevin Smith, who was booted from the same flight last year because he was deemed too fat to fly. Or Florida resident Joe Winiecki who in 2007 was told to change his T-shirt, which displayed a sexual double entendre, or be removed from the flight. Or Mesa College student Kyla Ebbert, who earlier that year was lectured by a Southwest customer service rep who thought her outfit too revealing (Ebbert was wearing a denim skirt, a tank top, and a sweater).
On Monday, musician and “L Word” actress Leisha Hailey and her girlfriend, musician Camila Grey, discovered yet another way to get kicked off a Southwest Airlines flight.
It started with a kiss, shortly after Hailey and Grey boarded the plane in El Paso. According to the couple, a flight attendant approached them and informed them that Southwest was a “family airline.” Within five minutes, the couple was off the plane.
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“In no way were our actions on Southwest Airlines excessive, inappropriate or vulgar,” wrote Hailey and Grey in a statement on their band’s website. “We want to make it clear we were not making out or creating any kind of spectacle of ourselves, it was one, modest kiss.”
Southwest sees it differently, a statement on the airline’s website says that the flight crew received “several passenger complaints characterizing the behavior as excessive,” and that the “conversation escalated to a level that was better resolved on the ground.”
The airline later told Fox News that Hailey and Grey were also using profane language, and that “ultimately their aggressive reaction led to their removal from the aircraft.”
Other celebrities have taken to Twitter to denounce the airline. Kirstie Alley, Kelly Osbourne, and Sandra Bernhard have all said they will no longer fly the airline. Not surprisingly, Kevin Smith has also joined in, calling the couple “Too fab to fly.”
Southwest has long taken pride in its outreach to gays and lesbians. Its website touts the company’s status as the official airline of the Gay Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, the Gay-Straight Alliance Network, and the National Gay Lesbian Chamber of Commerce.
This image was tarnished somewhat in June, when a Houston-based Southwest pilot with a stuck microphone button inadvertently broadcast repeated explicit comments about flight attendants’ appearance, age, and sexual orientation over an air-traffic control channel. The pilot, who the airline did not identify, underwent diversity training and was reinstated.
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Article source: http://news.yahoo.com/l-word-actress-discovers-way-kicked-off-southwest-165500919.html
“At the end of the day, the industry is willing to play its role in finding a solution to aviation emissions,” Abdul Wahab Teffaha, secretary general of the Arab Air Carriers Organization, said on the sidelines of an airline conference in Rome. “But that is provided that this role is defined globally.”
Mr. Teffaha has joined a chorus of foreign airlines and governments seeking to put a stop to the planned change, which goes into effect for airlines on Jan. 1.
The emissions trading program already includes around 11,000 utilities and manufacturers. Beginning next year, it is expected to cover most international flights landing in and taking off from European airports. That will require carriers from non-E.U. countries to buy carbon permits to offset their emissions of carbon dioxide.
In July, the Air Transport Association of America, an industry group, together with American Airlines and the merged United Continental group, filed suit to fight the inclusion of U.S. carriers in the E.U. plan. The European Court of Justice in Luxembourg is expected to issue an advisory opinion on that suit on Oct. 6, with a final judgment possible before the plan comes into force in 2012.
A decision supporting the U.S. airlines would badly damage the initiative because E.U. regulators and European airlines say the involvement of non-E.U. carriers is critical to its success.
A group of Chinese airlines has also threatened to file its own lawsuit, and the governments of other countries, including Russia and India, have hinted at retaliation if the E.U. plan is allowed to go into force.
“The permit is a penalty on all foreign carriers going to Europe,” Vayalar Ravi, India’s civil aviation minister, told Bloomberg News on Thursday in New Delhi, where the government was hosting a two-day meeting of roughly 30 countries opposed to the E.U. plan.
Mr. Teffaha said his organization, which represents about two dozen airlines, including the Gulf carriers Emirates, Etihad and Qatar Airways, was not yet planning legal action of its own against the E.U. plan but would await the outcome of the U.S. suit before the European court before deciding its next move.
“I think the A.T.A. has a very strong case,” he said, referring to the American suit. If the court finds the emissions trading program has been illegally applied to aviation, he said, “hopefully the E.U. will see reason and work with other governments to reach a global solution as soon as possible.”
Governments and airlines have been in negotiations for more than a decade over the creation of global cap-and-trade system under the auspices of the International Civil Aviation Organization, an arm of the United Nations. The I.C.A.O.’s 190 member states passed a resolution in 2010 committing to devising a market-based solution, though without a fixed timetable.
Impatient with the pace of the I.C.A.O. talks, Brussels moved ahead with its own plan, which was passed two years ago with the backing of governments and the European Parliament.
Still, an E.U. official said Thursday the union was prepared to amend its cap-and-trade system in the event the I.C.A.O. reaches an aviation emissions agreement.
“We’ve always said that we prefer a multilateral, global solution, and the most plausible forum for that right now is I.C.A.O.,” said one EU official, who requested anonymity because he was not authorized to speak on the matter.
This week, the European Union said it would effectively exempt the bulk of airlines’ carbon dioxide emissions from inclusion in the plan until 2020, a concession that it said was aimed at softening the economic impact on airlines. Carriers will be allowed to emit 85 percent of their designated cap for free for the first year. The cap is set at 97 percent of average aviation emissions from 2004 to 2006.
The share of free permits would shrink to 82 percent of emissions for the years 2013-2020, after which time airlines would be expected to purchase permits for all of their emissions at auction or from other industrial sectors.
Based on current carbon permit prices, the European Union estimated that the price of a one-way trans-Atlantic air ticket probably would rise by between €2 and €12, or about $2.70 and $16, as a result of airlines’ inclusion in the cap-and-trade system.
Article source: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/30/business/global/middle-eastern-airlines-join-opposition-to-eu-emissions-plan.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Despite the European debt crisis, fares to Europe remain “stubbornly high,” said George Hobica, founder of AirfareWatchdog.com. “We suspect it’s due to consolidation, capacity cuts and plain old demand.”
Fares from New York to Madrid, for example, are as low as $762 round trip versus $1,197 at the beginning of the summer, according to Bing Travel, the Microsoft search engine. But that’s still about $50 more than a year ago, when the same route was $709. Similar patterns can be seen in round-trip fares between New York and Paris. Holiday tickets are up too, with an average price of $936 versus $861 last year, according to Bing’s Holiday Travel forecast.
How do you keep the price of your ticket in check? Below, some tricks to finding the best fares this fall and beyond.
USE A JUMP CITY Forget your final destination for a moment and focus on the cheapest flight you can find to Europe, which may involve spending a night in a city not in your original travel plan. Bing’s flexible flight search lets you compare up to five routes at once for the best price within a 30-day range. (Conduct your search as usual. Then, under the Flights tab, click “flexible search,” then “select a city” under Destinations to look for major European hubs like Amsterdam, Frankfurt, and Paris.) After finding a flight, search for a European budget carrier like easyJet or Ryanair to fly to the city you had originally planned to visit. “Historically, the cheapest jump cities have been Dublin, Zurich, Frankfurt and Madrid,” said Rick Seaney, the chief executive of Farecompare.com.
For example, the least expensive nonstop flight for a weeklong trip to Paris from New York in mid-November was about $840, according to a recent search. Flying round trip to Dublin instead and using Ryanair to get to Paris and back saves about $232 — which can more than cover a cheap BB for the two nights you may need to spend in Dublin to make this itinerary work.
If you don’t have a long layover as a buffer, you run a greater risk of missing connecting flights if there are delays by dealing with multiple airlines on separate tickets. And don’t expect the second airline to take responsibility if you do miss your flight. Still, the savings can outweigh the risk. Trains, which are often more convenient in Europe than planes, can be another way to get to your destination from a jump city. Momondo.com, a Danish travel search site, compares air routes with more than 4,000 train routes across Europe. Depending on the schedule, you may not have to spend money on a hotel.
BE FLEXIBLE You can often save by adjusting your travel dates by a day or two. ITASoftware.com, which provides the technological backbone for many airfare shopping sites, allows users to scan an entire month’s fares for the least expensive rate. (Click on “airfare search,” then “see calendar of lowest fares.”) Monday, Nov. 5, and Tuesday, Nov. 6, were the cheapest dates that month to fly nonstop to London from Atlanta ($884 round trip) for a week’s vacation, according to a recent search. The next best was Thursday, Dec. 1, or Saturday, Dec. 3, at $900. To book, users must go to another site. Bing Travel offers a handy flight summary after each search that suggests cheaper options in a pop-up box. For instance, the cheapest rate for a New York-to-Rome flight departing on Friday, Oct. 21, was $900 round trip. If you left a day later, you could save $50, according to the flight summary box.
LOOK BEYOND NONSTOP FLIGHTS Choosing a flight with a connection or stopover may not be as fast as taking a nonstop route, but the savings may outweigh the inconvenience. The cheapest nonstop flight from Atlanta to Amsterdam for a week in late November was $1,011 on Delta, according to a search on Hipmunk.com, which sorts fares according to an “agony” index that factors in price, length of flight and number of connections. By taking a connecting flight that stops in London for about three hours, you could shave $100 off the price. Also, don’t overlook alternative airports. The cheapest nonstop flight from Newark to London’s Heathrow airport for a week in late September was $778 on Virgin Atlantic, in a recent search. Flying into London’s Gatwick airport instead on Iceland Express with a short stop in Reykjavik was about $130 less.
FIND PACKAGE DEALS Buying your flight and hotel together at an online agency like Expedia or Travelocity can be cheaper than booking separately. A four-night trip for two people in mid-October to London from Newark, staying at the Radisson Edwardian Mercer Street Hotel, was $1,885 a person if the hotel and flight were purchased together at Expedia.com versus $3,629 if booked separately. A weeklong trip to Dublin from New York, staying six nights at the Hilton, was $934 a person if booked together at Travelocity.com, $249 less than if booked separately.
TAKE A CLOSER LOOK AT CODE SHARES With code sharing, the industry term for an agreement that allows airlines to sell one another’s flights as if they were their own, you could book a flight to Paris on Delta and end up traveling with Air France, a code share partner with Delta. But while the flight might be the same, the price might not be. Sometimes the difference can be substantial. For example, a recent online search revealed that a nonstop flight in October from New York to Rome operated by American Airlines was $1,612 if booked through British Airways (American’s code-share partner). That same round-trip flight was $1,412 if booked through American.
You can spot a code share when comparing fares online; if you see the same route and departure times from two different airlines, it is most likely a code share. To be sure, you can check the flight details, which spell out which carrier operates the flight.
SEARCH FOR UPPER CLASS SALES Several major airlines have been running business-class sales to Europe over the holidays, when business travel can dry up, with prices as low as $1,320 round trip (before taxes and fees) from New York to Brussels, $1,470 from Boston to Frankfurt and $1,648 round trip from Chicago to London on Lufthansa and other carriers. But unlike in previous years, said Joe Brancatelli, publisher of the travel Web site JoeSentMe.com, who alerts members to such sales, few airlines are promoting the deals on their Web sites, forcing travelers to “peck and hunt” for the sales online.
Travelzoo.com, which offers a list of Best Europe Flight Deals, recently pointed out premium-economy round-trip fares from $1,162 (not including taxes and fees, which can add up to $250) on Air France from New York to London, and $1,857 (not including taxes and fees) from Los Angeles to London on Air New Zealand. But act quickly if you want one of those cushy seats. Mr. Brancatelli said one of his subscribers booked a ticket to Glasgow for Thanksgiving for $1,200 round trip, but by the time he told his friends about the deal, the price had gone back up to $5,000.
Article source: http://travel.nytimes.com/2011/10/02/travel/finding-cheaper-fall-flights-to-europe-online.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
With high festive season demand pushing up airfares, aviation regulator DGCA has been asked by the Union civil aviation ministry to examine if it could take some steps provide any relief to air travellers.
“I have asked DGCA to use its powers and look into the matter, although beyond a point, we cannot do anything,” Civil Aviation Minister Vayalar Ravi said replying to a question on hiking air fares by airlines ahead of the festival season.
Noting that there is a ‘flexible mechanism’ that governs air fares, he said the regulator would examine the issue as it affected the travelling public.
The fares of almost all major airlines have risen by an average of 10 per cent due to the festive season, though sources in the airline industry maintain that due to high passenger traffic, the low-fare buckets were getting filled up fast leaving only high fare options.
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Article source: http://www.rediff.com/business/slide-show/slide-show-1-govt-for-probe-into-why-airfares-are-rising/20110929.htm
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One annoying and seemingly unnecessary thing versus Windows is the way the MAC OS wants to control all your files instead of letting you organize and maintain them yourself. iPhoto, for example, duplicates every photo on your hard drive, thereby doubling the space occupied, and won’t let you import photos into files of your own name and choosing. The MAC mail program makes 4 or 5 copies of every attachment, squirreling them away all over the place, and the word software (Pages or Word) replicates files so many times over I can’t keep track of them all. But I’m learning workarounds to all of this–e.g., use Gmail and Picassa (and/or Xee) instead of Mac Mail and iPhoto, change the settings in Word to make no backups at all, and then just manually backup after every few revisions, etc. And really, as long as the hard drive isn’t full, none of this really matters. It just bugs me from an efficiency standpoint. The important thing, when switching over from a PC, is to realize that almost everything that it seems, at first, like you can’t do on a Mac, you actually can. You just have to do a little digging on Google or MacRumors to figure out how. Give it a few weeks to get used to the OS and to get everything configured. This machine is worth the effort.
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