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Find Hotels in Mumbai with Mobissimo India Hotel Search

chirayu@gmail.com (India Traveller) — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 06:20:00 -0700

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Find Hotels in Mumbai with Mobissimo India Hotel Search

chirayu@gmail.com (India Traveller) — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 22:58:00 -0700

Search hotels, sort by rating, compare prices, and book hotel rooms in Mumbai with a single click on Mobissimo India Hotel search engine. Compare hotel prices in Mumbai and book hotel rooms in Mumbai with Mobissimo India hotel search. Use Mobissimo to find airfares to and from Mumbai (BOM).

Air India Plans to Fly Direct Non-Stop from Delhi to New York from August 2007 Onwards

chirayu@gmail.com (India Traveller) — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 20:58:00 -0700

Air India plans to start direct non-stop flights from New Delhi (DEL) to New York (JFK airport) from August 2007 onwards. Read more about Air India's plans to fly direct and non-stop from New Delhi and Mumbai to New York.

Find direct flights from New Delhi (DEL) and Mumbai (BOM) to New York, John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK) on Mobissimo India. Book hotels in India with Mobissimo hotel search. Search and compare prices to book hotel rooms in New York with Mobissimo.

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Sat., 30th June: Flights From Mumbai (BOM) Cancelled Due to Heavy Rains

chirayu@gmail.com (India Traveller) — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 12:02:00 -0700

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.

Finnair to Start Direct Flights From Mumbai (BOM) to Helsinki (HEL) From June 27, 2007 Onwards

chirayu@gmail.com (India Traveller) — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 06:40:00 -0700

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.

Find local and global flights on Mobissimo. Book hotels in Helsinki, Mumbai, and other domestic and international destinations with Mobissimo's hotel search.

Find Flights, Compare Airfares, and Book Air Tickets to Mumbai (BOM) with Mobissimo India Airfares and Flights Search

chirayu@gmail.com (India Traveller) — Thu, 10 May 2007 21:24:00 -0700

Search for airfares to Mumbai (BOM), find flights, compare prices, and book air tickets to Mumbai (BOM) with Mobissimo India airfares and flights search.

Related:
- Find hotel rates, compare prices, and book hotel rooms in Mumbai with Mobissimo India Hotel Search Engine.

Kingfisher Airlines Celebrates Second Anniversary; Flies World's Largest Aeroplane, the Super Jumbo Jet 'Airbus A380' to Delhi and Mumbai

chirayu@gmail.com (India Traveller) — Wed, 09 May 2007 20:36:00 -0700

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.
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Find and Compare Airfares From Mumbai (BOM) to Manchester (MAN) in Ten Seconds on Mobissimo India

chirayu@gmail.com (India Traveller) — Wed, 02 May 2007 12:49:00 -0700

Find and compare airfares from Mumbai (BOM) to Manchester (MAN), England with a single click on Mobissimo India. Pick and choose your preferred airfare from Mobissimo India to book air tickets from Mumbai (BOM) to Manchester (MAN).

Instead of surfing different web sites to find the cheapest airfares for a particular day, use the filter by price feature of Mobissimo India to find a list of airfares in the order of lowest-price-first and select the airfare that best fits your air travel budget to book air tickets to your destination. Use Mobissimo India to find airfare deals that fit your travel budget.

Find a list of airfares to Manchester (MAN) for a particular date and select the choice that best suits your travel budget. Find airfares to Manchester (MAN), United Kingdom with Mobissimo India airfare search. Find airfares from India to London (LON) Heathrow airport (LHR) and London Gatwick airport (LGW) with Mobissimo airfares search.

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Find Hotels in Mumbai and Navi Mumbai With Mobissimo India Hotel Search Engine

chirayu@gmail.com (India Traveller) — Tue, 01 May 2007 19:08:00 -0700

Find hotels and book hotel rooms in Mumbai (Bombay) and Navi Mumbai (New Bombay) with Mobissimo India Hotel Search Engine.

Mumbai Airport Goes Wi-Fi. Free Wi-Fi Connectivity at Sahar and Santacruz Airports in Mumbai.

chirayu@gmail.com (India Traveller) — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 12:26:00 -0700

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 Mumbais 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.

GoAir to Operate Daily Flights from Mumbai (BOM) to Srinagar (SXR) via Delhi (DEL)

chirayu@gmail.com (India Traveller) — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 09:55:00 -0700

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).

Find GoAir and other Indian low-cost airline flights and airfares on Mobissimo India. Search, find, sort, filter, and compare local low-cost airfares, and global international airline airfares with Mobissimo India.

Compare airfares and find hotels in Mumbai, Srinagar, Delhi, Chennai, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Cochin, and other destinations in India with Mobissimo travel search engine.

Mumbai This Week: 9th International Film Festival Until 15th March

chirayu@gmail.com (India Traveller) — Sat, 10 Mar 2007 11:51:00 -0800

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 Carrère'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.

Related:
- Watch the latest Hindi and English movies at Adlabs Multiplex Cinemas
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Highlights of Union Budget 2007-08 for Aviation and Tourism Industries

chirayu@gmail.com (India Traveller) — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 15:49:00 -0800

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 DelhiNew 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
- Plans for Infrastructure development in Union Budget 2007-08.
- 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.

Mumbai This Week - Kala Ghoda Arts Festival From 3rd Feb to 11th Feb

chirayu@gmail.com (India Traveller) — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 08:29:00 -0800

Things to do in Mumbai this week.

Enjoy various visual arts, theatre, film, music, literature, dance, heritage, and children's events as part of the Kala Ghoda Arts Festival from the 3rd to the 11th of this month in Mumbai.

Visit the Web site of Kala Ghoda Arts Festival 2007 in Mumbai for a schedule of arts, heritage, culture, dance, music, film, literature, paintings, writing, and other events.

Find flights and compare airfares to Mumbai (BOM) on Mobissimo India. Search, find, sort, compare, and book hotel rooms and accommodation in Mumbai with Mobissimo's Hotel Search engine.

Bombay Heritage Walks - Tour Banganga Tank and Temple Complex on 21st Jan 2007

chirayu@gmail.com (India Traveller) — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 17:48:00 -0800

Experience a new way of sightseeing in Mumbai.
Be a part of Bombay Heritage Walks.

The Bombay Heritage Walks group organizes walking tours around Mumbai (Bombay) and aims to raise awareness of the people of Mumbai and visitors, about the citys architecture and heritage monuments. These walking tours showcase architectural styles and ornamental details and trace the social and cultural history of the city through its monuments.

Take a heritage walk around Banganga Tank at Walkeshwar this Sunday, as part of Bombay Heritage Walks.

- Date and Time: Sunday, 21st January 2007 from 4:45pm to 7pm.
- Fees: Rs. 100/- per person.
- Registration: By email.
To register for the Heritage walk please send an email to registrations (at) bombayheritagewalks (dot) com with 'Banganga Walk' as the Subject.

- Starting Point of the walking tour: Walkeshwar Bus Depot, Mumbai.
- Directions: Coming up via the Walkeshwar slope from Chowpatty, take the straight road to Teenbatti Junction.
From Teenbatti, go further ahead to reach Walkeshwar Bus Depot. Banganga Tank and Temple complex is a 3-minute walk from Walkeshwar Bus Depot.

The Bombay Heritage Walks
185, Walkeshwar Road,
Teenbatti,
Mumbai - 400006.
Tel: +91-22-2369-0992
Fax: +91-22-2364-3234
email: info (at) bombayheritagewalks (dot) com
Web site: http://www.bombayheritagewalks.com/

Visit Banganga Tank and Temple Complex at Walkeshwar, Mumbai, as part of Bombay Heritage Walks.