Budget carrier SpiceJet has become a member of the International Air Transport Association (IATA), it announced on Tuesday. With this, it has become the first Indian low-cost airline to join the association. “The IATA membership is also significant on account of SpiceJet’s plans to rapidly expand its international footprint,” the airline said in a statement.
The membership, which is enjoyed by over 290 airlines worldwide will help SpiceJet to grow its connections with other airlines through interlining and code shares, enabling to seamlessly expand the network options for its passengers in future, it added.
Meanwhile, airfares have been skyrocketing followed by the groundings of the planes by major airlines. Along with this, the Boeing 737 MAX crash in Ethiopia has also added to the woes of the aviation industry. After the crash, countries all over the world have been grounding their Boeing 737 MAX planes. SpiceJet is one of the carriers affected by it. The airline had to withdraw 12 aircraft due to this.
Previously, SpiceJet had announced 12 new international and domestic flights. Effective from 31 March 2019, these flights will begin operations on 15 April.
With this, the airline also added six new flights under Modi government’s scheme UDAN (Ude Desh ka Aam Nagrik). Kishangarh-Ahmedabad-Kishangarh, Lakhimpur-Guwahati-Lakhimpur and Jaipur-Amritsar-Jaipur were given to the airline under the third round of allocation of routes for regional connectivity scheme. In this bidding, SpiceJet emerged with the most number of routes awarded.
19/03/19 Prachi Gupta/Financial Express
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The membership, which is enjoyed by over 290 airlines worldwide will help SpiceJet to grow its connections with other airlines through interlining and code shares, enabling to seamlessly expand the network options for its passengers in future, it added.
Meanwhile, airfares have been skyrocketing followed by the groundings of the planes by major airlines. Along with this, the Boeing 737 MAX crash in Ethiopia has also added to the woes of the aviation industry. After the crash, countries all over the world have been grounding their Boeing 737 MAX planes. SpiceJet is one of the carriers affected by it. The airline had to withdraw 12 aircraft due to this.
Previously, SpiceJet had announced 12 new international and domestic flights. Effective from 31 March 2019, these flights will begin operations on 15 April.
With this, the airline also added six new flights under Modi government’s scheme UDAN (Ude Desh ka Aam Nagrik). Kishangarh-Ahmedabad-Kishangarh, Lakhimpur-Guwahati-Lakhimpur and Jaipur-Amritsar-Jaipur were given to the airline under the third round of allocation of routes for regional connectivity scheme. In this bidding, SpiceJet emerged with the most number of routes awarded.
19/03/19 Prachi Gupta/Financial Express
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