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News AIRLINES IN BRIEF New Delhi
ETIHAD AND JET SEAL DEAL
ETIHAD AIRWAYS HAS ANNOUNCED a further increase in capacity to India, following its acquisition of a minority stake in Indian airline Jet Airways. Etihad, which has purchased a 24 per cent shareholding in Jet, said it wanted to use its Abu Dhabi base “as a global hub connecting international passengers and freight with flights to and from India”. The airline has already doubled flights from Abu Dhabi to both Mumbai and New Delhi from daily to double-daily, as well as using larger aircraft on the two routes.
EXPENSE MANAGEMENT
Airplus and Amadeus create virtual card
12 1 Patrick Diemer
AIRPLUS AND AMADEUS have teamed up to create a virtual payment card for TMCs. The Amadeus Airplus Travel Agency Card is designed to make it easier for agencies to complete transactions with suppliers that do not use IATA’s billing and settlement payment system. It allows TMCs to create a virtual credit card number through Airplus during booking. Airplus MD Patrick Diemer (pictured) said the two companies' expertise made the joint proposition "particularly well suited to face the challenges and needs of travel agency payments”.
SERVICED APARTMENTS
ASAP to introduce quality scheme
THE ASSOCIATION OF SERVICED APARTMENT PROVIDERS (ASAP) is to set up a quality assurance programme to assess its members’ properties. ASAP currently has 70 serviced apartment operators representing 13,000 properties in the UK and Ireland. The programme, due to be introduced this year, will include an ‘ASAP quality marque’ for those operators who participate in the scheme. The association said that operators will be “assessed on an annual and ongoing basis to ensure legal compliance, and offered a detailed statistical report intended to support continuous improvement of their business”.
Etihad is also to increase flights from daily to double- daily on another four routes: Kochi (starting from June), Bangalore and Chennai (from July), and Hyderabad (from October). In another move, Etihad will enable passengers flying from India to the US via Abu Dhabi to clear US immigration and customs at Abu Dhabi airport. Etihad and Jet also plan to codeshare on each other’s flights between Abu Dhabi, India and other destinations in the Middle East, Europe and North America, subject to receiving regulatory approval across a range of countries.
Easyjet is to launch two routes from Gatwick to the key business destinations of Brussels and Strasbourg from March. Easyjet, which is Gatwick’s largest airline, had already announced new services to Jersey, Paris and Newcastle. It will operate 107 routes from the airport from this summer.
British Airways is to increase frequencies on several routes from Heathrow for the summer. It will increase flights to Chengdu from three to five per week from May 5. Mexico City will go from five to six weekly from April 27, Sao Paulo from seven to ten from June 1, and Tokyo Haneda from five to six per week from March 30, before going daily from May 4.
TMCs EGENCIA
EXPANDS INTO SEVEN NEW MARKETS
EGENCIA HAS CONTINUED its worldwide expansion by entering seven new markets, including Turkey. The Expedia-owned TMC is introducing “integrated online and agent- assisted corporate travel management” in Turkey, including the implementation of its online booking tool.
Egencia is also adding six other
countries to its network of partners, known as the Egencia Global Alliance (EGA): the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, plus the Latin American countries of the Dominican Republic, El Salvador and Panama. These moves will increase the number of
countries served by Egencia to 62 globally. The TMC saw worldwide sales grow by 30 per cent in the first nine months of 2013.
If you are thinking of investing in Britain, come you will get a warm welcome.
David Cameron to Chinese businesses during a UK trade mission, Shanghai
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