NEW DELHI: India’s struggling flagship airline Air India began its international operations Wednesday. Operations to Europe and the United States were started as a part of its contingency plan to reinstate normalcy. Hundreds of Air India pilots were staying away from work and had called in sick as an attempt to make the management accept [...]
SINGAPORE: Singapore women wanting to enter the flight attendant sector received positive news this week, allowing them to work longer, highlighting what women’s rights advocates say is a step in the right direction. “It makes women have more power in their professional careers and no longer is flying and working on a plane the right [...]
BANGKOK: Thailand remained the top travel spot for India tourists last year with some 900,000 Indians arriving in the Southeast Asian country, the Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) said in a statement. According to their figures, a record 917,832 Indians were received in 2011, a 16 percent jump over the 791,185 handled in 2010. In [...]
SANA’A: 2011 was a catastrophic year in terms of tourism in Yemen as the country was enthralled in a violent popular uprising. 2012 and the threat of terror attacks have turned out to be as lethal to the ailing industry sector. Despite a rich cultural heritage stretching millennia and breathtaking scenery, Yemen is its own [...]
KUALA LUMPUR: Children are to be barred from flying on the upper deck of the Airbus A380 on Malaysia Airlines flights, news reports suggested on Wednesday. According to reports, an advisory was issued to tourism agents that said children under 12-years-old would not be allowed to sit in the upstairs economy section of the superjumbo [...]
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysian tourism officials have confirmed to Bikyamasr.com that there has been no flood of returning Malaysians from Thailand following the recent bombing in the southern part of that country. “Surprisingly, we have not seen any abnormalities or an increase in returns from southern Thailand,” a top tourism official told Bikyamasr.com on Tuesday. Local [...]
MUMBAI: Some 19 Indian banks led by the State Bank of India have approved a consortium to help in the financial restructuring plan of the troubled national airline Air India, which continues to face staggering debt and losses. According to a report in the Business Standard newspaper, officials said the new deal of 180 billion [...]
NEW DELHI: Tourism in India already contributes to over 10 per cent of the country’s GDP and by 2021 would attract over 1700 million tourists, a white paper on the industry claims. While the white paper authored by The World Travel and Tourism Council (WTTC) and HVS a consultant specializing in global hospitality has also [...]
NEW DELHI: India’s civil aviation sector is in an economic nose dive. With the Kingfisher airlines, one of the biggest private carrier facing bankruptcy, India’s civil aviation minister Ajit Singh told the Parliament Thursday that the country’s official international carrier, Air India, is bleeding to the tune of $1.9 million per day on operational costs [...]
NEW DELHI: Beleaguered and cash-strapped India private air carrier Kingfisher Airlines was forced to suspend its operations in several key cities, even as the company was forced to issue “stay at home” circulars to several thousand staffers in wake of a cash crunch. Sinking in a Rs 7,000 crore debt, company officials now claim that [...]
Kamikochi, Japan (dpa) – Mount Fuji in Japan is regarded as one of the world’s most beautiful mountains. With its even flanks and almost symmetrical cone, Fuji, or Fuji-san, has also been revered as a sacred site since time immemorial. Europeans are familiar with the prominent silhouette of this 3,776-metre-high peak, which stands as a [...]
Paris (dpa) – The Union of French Islamic Organizations (UOIF) on Monday expressed surprise at President Nicolas Sarkozy’s decision to ban an influential Egyptian preacher from visiting France next month. Sarkozy said earlier that Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi was “not welcome” in France, where he was scheduled to address a conference of the UOIF on April [...]
New Delhi (dpa) – India’s cash-strapped Kingfisher Airlines Ltd said Wednesday it was suspending international flights, as credit restrictions make it increasingly difficult to operate. Banks have refused to lend more to the debt-ridden carrier, and it has been excluded from the aviation industry’s clearinghouse for trade deals. The airline, which operates flights domestically, to [...]
Quito (dpa) – Quito nestles in the Andes in north-central Ecuador and is the highest capital city on earth. Not surprisingly due to its altitude and location, the most difficult part of any visit to Quito is actually getting there. The city’s Mariscal Sucre International airport is located in the middle of Quito and surrounded [...]
DUBAI: Women married to Gulf nationals will be exempted from an entry ban in place in Kuwait on 6 nationalities, the country’s immigration department said on Monday. The move comes after Kuwait barred all tourism and business visas for citizens of Iran, Iraq, Yemen, Syria, Pakistan and Afghanistan last year. It had resulted in wives [...]
CAIRO: An Australian journalist, an American student and their Egyptian translator have been barred from leaving Egypt pending investigation into allegations they “incited” residents of Mahalla in the Nile Delta to perpetrate violence, the prosecutor in the case said late Tuesday evening. All charges have been denied by journalist Austin Mackell. He did, however, say [...]
CAIRO: A British woman who had been barred from leaving Egypt due to investigations into NGO workers in the country was allowed to leave the country on Tuesday, security sources reported. The British trainer at an unnamed NGO was stopped from her London-bound plane late last week, however, she was not arrested, but notified she [...]
CAIRO: Egypt’s Attorney General Abdel Meguid Mahmoud has barred the governor of Port Said Ahmed Abdullah Ahmed, Egyptian Football Association’s former chief Samir Zahran and Director of Port Said security Essam el-Din Abdel Hamid Samak from traveling outside the country as they face investigation over violence at a Port Said stadium on Wednesday that left [...]
CAIRO: A new report published on Monday says the United States Embassy in Cairo is sheltering American citizens working for NGOs in the country who have been barred from leaving the country. The Washington Post said Embassy officials and a former NGO official have confirmed that the US citizens banned from leaving Egypt are currently [...]
DUBAI: A Canadian woman says the Saudi Arabian government is refusing to issue passports for her children in order to leave the country, even though she says her husband has agreed to travel with her out of the ultra-conservative Gulf kingdom. According to Canada’s National Post, Nathalie Morin, of Montreal, has been attempting to leave [...]
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