Tuesday, July 10. 2007
Find flights and compare airfares from Thiruvananthapuram (Trivandrum, TRV), Kerala to the countries in Gulf region with a single click on Mobissimo India.
Use Mobissimo India to compare airfares, find flights, and book air tickets from Thiruvananthapuram (Trivandrum) in Kerala (airport code: TRV) to Abu Dhabi (AUH), Dubai (DXB), Sharjah (SHJ), Doha (DOH), Muscat (MCT), Riyadh (RUH), Kuwait (KWI), and Bahrain (BAH).
Find flights from Bahrain (BAH), Kuwait (KWI), Riyadh (RUH), Muscat (MCT), Doha (DOH), Sharjah (SHJ), Abu Dhabi (AUH), Dubai (DXB) and other cities in the Middle East to Thiruvananthapuram (Trivandrum, TRV) in Kerala, India with Mobissimo India airfares and flights search engine.
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Saturday, June 30. 2007
All domestic and international flights to and from Mumbai have been suspended* due to heavy rains since early this morning. Air Traffic Control suspended flights due to water-logging, flooding, and poor visibility.
Fifteen Mumbai-bound flights have been diverted to other airports like Ahmedabad (AMD) and Delhi (DEL).
Call the Jet Airways call centre on 39893333 for information on the status of flights to and from Mumbai.
Air Deccan's 24-hour Monsoon Response helpline number is Line 8 of the IVR at 39008888 (prefix city code).
# *Update: 3:00pm #
- Mumbai airport has re-opened and flights have resumed at around 1:00pm IST. There's a back-log of flights and many passengers are stranded.
Wednesday, June 13. 2007
If ever you needed an excuse to visit Finland in Scandinavia, then this is it. Now you can fly direct from Mumbai (BOM) to Helsinki (HEL) in just over eight hours without any stoppages from June 27 onwards. Finland's national carrier, Finnair, plans to fly direct, without any re-fuelling stops, from Mumbai (BOM) to Helsinki (HEL) five times-a-week from Wednesday, June 27, 2007.
Finnair will operate the wide-bodied Airbus A340 aircrafts on the Mumbai-Helsinki (BOM-HEL) and Helsinki-Mumbai (HEL-BOM) sector. The airline hopes to provide special service to passengers with an Indian cabin crew that understands the tastes and preferences of Indian passengers to make them comfortable during the just over 8-hour flight from Mumbai (Airport code: BOM) to Helsinki (Airport code: HEL), Finland.
Finnair also flies thrice-a-week from Indira Gandhi International Airport in Delhi (Airport code: DEL) to Helsinki (HEL), Finland. With the Mumbai-Helsinki (BOM-HEL) direct flight that commences from June 27, Finnair would be operating 12-flights-a-week to India. The airline garners ~5 per cent of its total revenue from Asia, however it sees potential in the Asian market as Business Class passenger load increased by 40 per cent and the Economy Class saw an 80 per cent rise, and has decided to focus on India as a major centre of its operations in Asia.
Find direct and connecting flights and compare airfares from Mumbai (BOM) to Helsinki (HEL) in Finland and other destinations in Scandinavia like Stockholm (Airport code: ARN), Sweden; Copenhagen (Airport code: CPH), Denmark; and Oslo (Airport code: OSL), Norway.
So if ever an excuse was needed to vacation in Helsinki, Finland; Finnair offers you one with an economical non-stop flight straight from Mumbai to Helsinki, the capital of Finland. Happy flying, courtesy Finnair, from Mumbai (BOM) to Helsinki (HEL) non-stop five times-a-week from June 27, 2007.
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Wednesday, May 9. 2007
Kingfisher Airlines celebrates its second anniversary on 9th May by flying the world's largest passenger aeroplane, the Airbus A380 to India. Kingfisher Airlines is the only airline company from India to place orders for Airbus A380. The airline has placed five firm orders for Airbus A380, the first of which will be delivered in 2011.
The 239-foot long (~ 73-metre) superjumbo jet aircraft Airbus A380 seats 555 passengers in standard three-class configuration or up to 853 passengers in full economy class configuration. The mammoth airliner holds 81,890 gallons (~ 309970 litres) of fuel, cruises at 560 miles per hour (~ 900-km per hour) and flies a distance of 8000 nautical miles (~ 14816 kms) non-stop.
Read more about the world's largest passenger aeroplane-Airbus A380.
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- Photos of Airbus A380 in Mumbai on Tuesday, 8th May 2007.
- News report on Airbus A380 in Delhi on Sunday, 6th May 2007.
- See wallpapers of Airbus A380.
- Airbus A380 photo feature on Yahoo! News Photos.
Thursday, April 26. 2007
Mumbai-based low-cost carrier (LCC) GoAir, promoted by the Wadia Group, has roped in Bollywood star—the lady with sweet dimples and smash hits like Koi Mil Gaya, Kal Ho Na Ho, Dil Chahta Hai, Veer Zaara—Preity Zinta to be its Brand Ambassador and promote the no-frills, low-cost airline with its nationwide advertising and brand awareness campaign 'Chalo India, Let's Fly Smart' (Come India, Let's Fly Smart).
GoAir hopes that the dazzling, gorgeous, and charming Bollywood actress Preity Zinta with her sweet and cheerful dimpled smile, cherubic face, lovely dimples, infectious enthusiasm, vibrant personality, celebrity status, and 'glam' quotient will improve brand visibility and build brand credibility for GoAir as a youthful, fun, exciting, energetic, dynamic, vibrant, colourful, on the go, and forward-looking airline for the people of India.
Low-cost carrier GoAir operates 387 weekly flights across ten destinations in India with a 5% share of the domestic aviation market. Preity Zinta promotes GoAir with the 'Chalo India, Let's Fly Smart' nation-wide campaign that exhorts people to act smart, take more holidays, and enjoy themselves by buying GoAir tickets and flying instead of spending time travelling by train or bus.
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- Read more articles on Preity Zinta's association with GoAir.
- Download photos and wallpapers of Preity Zinta.
- Filmography of Preity Zinta.
- Book hotels in India with Mobissimo Hotel search.
- Book air tickets to and from Mumbai (BOM) on Mobissimo India.
Tuesday, April 24. 2007
Sahar and Santacruz airports to offer free Wi-Fi Internet access.
There's good news for passengers using the Santacruz and Sahar airports in Mumbai. Now you can send and receive e-mails, chat with family and friends, download files and attachments, and access the Internet to browse and surf Web sites while resting at Mumbai's domestic or international air terminals.
Mumbai International Airport (MIAL), in association with Bharti Airtel, has launched a wireless network that will provide *free Wi-Fi service throughout the domestic and international terminals.
Passengers transiting through Mumbai’s Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport (Sahar International airport) and Santacruz domestic airport can now access the Internet with a Wi-Fi enabled device like a laptop, PC, cellphone, or PDA when in the vicinity of a Wi-Fi access 'hotspot' point.
This Wi-Fi service is offered free of charge for all passengers carrying Wi-Fi enabled laptops.
* Wi-Fi: Also known as Wireless Fidelity or Wireless Broadband is a technology that allows laptop, cell phone, PDA, or hand-held computer users to access the Internet and Intranet when they are near a Wi-Fi 'hotspot' point.
Related:
- Find airfares to Mumbai (BOM) with Mobissimo India.
- Search and compare airfares from Mumbai with Mobissimo airfares search.
- Get low-cost airline airfares for domestic flights to and from Mumbai (BOM).
- Book hotel rooms in Mumbai (Bombay) from Mobissimo India hotel search.
- What is Wi-Fi? Read more about Wi-Fi.
- Book air tickets from BOM to destinations in India and around the world by finding and comparing airfares on Mobissimo.
Tuesday, April 10. 2007
Low-cost airline GoAir plans to operate twelve flights-a-week from Mumbai (BOM) to Srinagar (SXR), in Jammu & Kashmir, via Delhi (DEL). The airline also flies direct from Mumbai (BOM) to Srinagar (SXR) thrice-a-week.
As per the new schedule GoAir would operate 64 weekly flights on the Mumbai-Delhi-Mumbai (BOM-DEL-BOM) sector; 40 weekly flights on the Mumbai-Chennai-Mumbai (Bombay-Madras-Bombay, BOM-MAA-BOM) sector, and 33 flights per week on the Mumbai-Hyderabad-Mumbai (BOM-HYD-BOM) sector.
The low-cost airline would also start daily flights from Delhi to Cochin (DEL-COK), Bangalore to Cochin (BLR-COK), and Chennai to Hyderabad (MAA-HYD).
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Saturday, March 10. 2007
Here's a chance for cinema enthusiasts and movie buffs to watch films like Volver (2006) directed by the internationally acclaimed Spanish film-maker Pedro Almodóvar and starring Spanish beauty Penelope Cruz, Emmanuel Carrčre's French film La Moustache (2005), Mira Nair's Namesake, which is based on Pulitzer prize-winning Indian writer Jhumpa Lahiri's first novel of the same name; and Hrishikesh Mukherjee's 1960 golden oldie Anuradha on the big screen in Mumbai.
The 9th International Film Festival, organized by The Mumbai Academy of the Moving Image (MAMI) and presented by Adlabs, is on at different venues in Mumbai (Bombay) until the 15th of this month.
This edition of the International Film Festival in Mumbai will showcase more than 100 films from over 40 countries. The films will be screened at IMAX Adalbs in Wadala, Y.B. Chavan Centre located opposite Mantralaya at Nariman Point, and Fun Republic on New Link Road at Andheri (West) in Mumbai.
Download a schedule of International films that will be screened at IMAX Adlabs Wadala, Y.B. Chavan Centre, and Fun Republic in Andheri until the 15th of March as part of the ongoing film festival.
Read more about the 9th International Film Festival in Mumbai from March 9th-15th, 2007.
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- Watch the latest Hindi and English movies at Adlabs Multiplex Cinemas
- Fun Republic Multiplex Cinemas in India
Thursday, March 1. 2007
Highlights of Union Budget 2007-08 presented to the Lok Sabha by Finance Minister P.Chidambaram on Wednesday, 28th February 2007.
- ATF (Aviation Turbine Fuel) benefit extended to all small aircraft
- 5-year tax holiday for 2,3, and 4-star hotels and convention centres with a seating capacity of 3000 in NCT (National Capital Territory of Delhi—New Delhi, Old Delhi, and Delhi Cantonment)
- Private importers of aircraft: 3% import duty to be levied including helicopters.
- Tourism infrastructure to get an allocation of Rs. 520-crore as against Rs. 423-crore* last year
- 20,000 more hotels for the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi
- North-eastern region will get Rs. 405 crore for highway development
- National Highway Development Programme: Allocation up from Rs. 9948-crore to 10667-crore
- Golden Quadrilateral project near completion
- No change in corporate income tax
- e-governance expenditure hiked to Rs.719-crore.
- Income tax exemption hiked by Rs. 10,000
- Income tax exemption: For women - Rs. 1,45,000
- PAN Card mandatory for all security transactions
- PAN Card to be the only identification number for markets.
- National level goods & services tax to be introduced from April 01, 2007
* 10 million = 100 lakh = 1 crore
Read more about the Union Budget 2007-08 presented by Finance Minister P. Chidambaram in the Lok Sabha on Wednesday, 28th February 2007.
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- Highlights of Union Budget 2007-08
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- Union Budget 2007-08: Finance Minister P. Chidambaram's speech to the Lok Sabha on Wednesday, 28th February 2007.
- Read more about the Union Budget and Railway Budget 2007-08.
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