The Hindu Business Line : Saturday, October 18, 2003

It's open skies for winter season — `Foreign airlines must enter into pact with IA, Air India'
IN an effort to facilitate hassle-free travel to and from India during the peak season, the Union Government has decided to allow all international airlines, including those from the Gulf region, to operate additional flights into the country ... More

Indian Airlines to raise capacity in Delhi-Chennai sector
INDIAN Airlines (IA), despite its fleet capacity constraints, has decided to offer more than 1,000 additional seats each week on the Delhi-Chennai-Delhi sector from October 26 when the winter schedule comes into effect. The airline is to ... More

British Airways launches new holiday packages
BRITISH Airways (BA), in association with Greaves Travel, UK, has announced the launch of a `British Airways Holidays India' brochure. British Airways Holidays has now added packages in India for the British tourists. Greaves Travel, UK, which ... More

Air Sahara, SCB launch co-branded credit card
AIR Sahara, which is to acquire two more 50-seater CRJ aircraft in the next two days, has partnered with Standard Chartered Bank to introduce a co-branded credit card - the `Air Sahara Standard Chartered Gold card'. The card offers free ... More

Air India to increase flights to Singapore
KUWAIT Airways will be operating four flights a week out of Chennai from October 26, according to a press release. The operation on Friday is being withdrawn and instead the airline will operate a service on Tuesdays. In the winter schedule ... More

INFRASTRUCTURE

Nod for Ernakulam-Kochi road projects
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The State Minister for Tourism and Fisheries, Prof K.V. Thomas, has said administrative sanction has been received for undertaking a series of road development work in the Ernakulam-Kochi area. The Department of ... More

Airport expansion move hailed TNCCI
MADURAI: Tamil Nadu Chamber of Commerce and Industry, while congratulating the district administration for enabling the Airport Authority of India to acquire the necessary land for airport expansion project, has said that the work must be ... More

SHIPPING

Chamber call to speed up Vallarpadam project
THE Cochin Chamber of Commerce and Industry has called for a concerted effort by the State's trade, labour and bureaucracy to make the much-delayed Vallarpadam Container Transhipment Terminal project of Kochi Port a reality. The project is a ... More

Sagarmala project getting final touches
THE Shipping Ministry is giving final touches to the Sagarmala project, as announced by the Prime Minister, Mr A.B. Vajpayee, on August 15, and the necessary papers in this regard will be submitted to the Cabinet for approval shortly. Speaking ... More

SCI may attract aggressive bids
WITH good working results and the upturn in the shipping industry, the Government is likely to get a "high price" for its 51 per cent equity in Shipping Corporation of India (SCI), the financial bids for which will be received on ... More

RAILWAYS

Doubling of rail line from Thiruvananthapuram-Ernakulam
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Union Railways Minister, Mr Nitish Kumar, would perform the groundbreaking ceremony for work on doubling of tracks in the Thiruvananthapuram-Ernakulam trunk route between Kayankulam and Mavelikkara (via Kottayam) ... More

Ships in Ports

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