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Tiger Airways reports 51% increase in passengers

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As of March 2010, 488,000 passengers flew with Tiger Airways, a 51% increase over the same month in 2009.

Average Load Factors – the number of seats sold as a percentage of total seats available – increased 3 percentage points to 84%.

For the financial year ended 31 March 2010, total passenger numbers grew to a record breaking 4.9 million, an increase of 54% over the preceding twelve months.  Average Load Factors increased 6 percentage points to 85%.

Tiger Airways Holdings Limited will release its full year financial results for the year ended 31 March 2010 on 13 May 2010, its first full year financial results announcement as a listed company.

Cebu Pacific offers seat sale for only P999 for local tickets, Korea, Japan seats as low as P2,499

The Philippines’s low-fare airline pioneer, Cebu Pacific (CEB) announces a P999 ‘Go Lite’ seat sale for all domestic destinations from April 7-8, 2010, for travel this June 1 to August 31, 2010.

The airline’s 33 domestic destinations include Boracay (Caticlan), Coron (Busuanga), Puerto Princesa (Palawan), Iloilo, Bacolod, Laoag, Tacloban, Cebu, Davao, Pagadian and Cagayan de Oro.

Routes usually serviced by buses and ferries are also included in the seat sale, such as direct flights from Cebu to Dumaguete, Butuan, Dipolog, Surigao, Siargao, Ozamiz and Pagadian, or from Davao to Cagayan de Oro, Zamboanga, Iloilo and Cebu.

Those with check-in luggage will just add P100 to ‘Go Lite’ fares upon booking.

Meanwhile, CEB also offers the ‘Go Lite’ seat sale fare of P2,999 for Incheon flights from Manila and Cebu to Incheon, and Cebu-Pusan flights. Manila-Osaka ‘Go’ seats are also available for only P2,499. This is for travel from September 1 to November 30, 2010.

“CEB remains consistent with its vision of ‘It’s Time Every Juan Flies.’ With this seat sale, more first-timers and frequent travelers are given the opportunity to travel not only locally but also to Korea and Japan.

“Leisure and business travelers also get the chance to visit various destinations more often with CEB’s trademark low fares,” said CEB VP for Marketing and Distribution Candice Iyog. Read more…

Jet Airways to launch Mumbai – Johannesburg flights

India’s Jet Airways will inaugurate its first-ever daily non-stop service from Mumbai to Johannesburg on 14 April 2010.

Passengers travelling on Jet Airways’ flights can also book onward connections to other South African destinations like Cape Town, Durban, Port Elizabeth, the famed Kruger National Park and East London. Additionally, in conjunction with its daily non-stop service to Johannesburg, the airline has also created South African JetEscapes packages, which will enable tourists to explore the Rainbow Nation.

The Jet Airways’ flight into Johannesburg will also provide convenient onwards connections to other destinations in the African region, to cities like Harare, Victoria Falls, Windhoek, Livingstone, Mauritius, Lilongwe, Blantyre, Bulawayo, Gaborone, Maputo, Kinshasa, Lagos, Luanda and Lusaka, making Jet Airways India’s first private carrier to provide its passengers with the dual benefits of seamless connectivity and significant savings for travel within the African continent.

Apart from tourism, the African Continent offers trade opportunities in areas like machinery and transport equipment, petroleum products, paper and wood products, textiles, iron and steel, plastic and linoleum products as also agro, chemicals and pharmaceutical products. The region has been attracting global attention because of its phenomenal investment potential in sectors like tourism, pharmaceuticals, electronics, IT, financial services and textiles.

India’s Kingfisher Airlines launches New Delhi – Hong Kong Flights

India’s Kingfisher Airlines has launched flights between New Delhi and Hong Kong. This is the second international destination to be served by Kingfisher Airlines out of New Delhi, flights on this route will operate six times a week.

Kingfisher Airlines’ flight IT 031 will take-off from New Delhi at 23:45 and arrive at Hong Kong at 07:40 local time. From Hong Kong, flight IT 032 will leave at 18:15 and arrive the same day at 21:45 in New Delhi, local time. The flights from Delhi-Hong Kong will operate daily (except on Tuesday’s) and daily from Hong Kong-New Delhi (except Wednesday’s).

Commenting on the launch of this new international route, Dr. Vijay Mallya, Chairman and CEO, Kingfisher Airlines Limited said, “We have set new standards in international travel with the unique Kingfisher experience that has earned us a 5 Star rating from Skytrax. Given the strong linkages between India and Hong Kong, we believe that there is untapped potential and these new routes promise to serve the unmet needs of discerning corporate and leisure flyers. Within a very short time since launch, Kingfisher Airlines emerged as the market leader on the Mumbai – Hong Kong route and we expect to consolidate our leadership position further by being the preferred airline on the New Delhi – Hong Kong route too, very soon.” Read more…

Jetstar continues Manila growth with new 70% boost to capacity

Jetstar Singapore-Manila services to more than double over 12 months

Low fares leader Jetstar will add an additional seven weekly services between Singapore and Manila by July, boosting its existing 10 times weekly offering to a 17 return flights per week schedule.

This new capacity follows the introduction of three new services in October last year on the route and represents more than doubling of Jetstar’s capacity between Singapore and Manila over the last 12 months.

Jetstar will initially add four additional weekly services from 1 June 2010 with three additional services coming on line from 7 July 2010.

The new services will be operated by Jetstar’s ninth A320 aircraft to be based in Singapore as part of its planned operational capacity growth of 46% over a year. Read more…