Kingfisher Airlines said it had slashed air fares between 21 per cent and 65 per cent on various routes across its network with effect from January 1, 2009.
"This is consistent with Kingfisher Airlines' mission to aggressively pursue increase in market share and to deliver India's only five star experience at highly competitive fares", a Kingfisher press statement said here on Friday.
The airlines will also offer significant discounts to its traditional corporate customer base, it said.
Its frequent flier programme, King Club, will now offer incentives and rewards including free overseas travel on its new launched international routes.
"The declining prices of ATF facilitate such consumer-benefitting initiatives that will also stimulate the industry", CEO and Chairman of the airlines, Vijay Mallya said in the statement.
"We will aggressively pursue sales and share and this will help sustain increased load factors in the shoulder season between February and April", he said.
Source: Agencies
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Friday, January 2, 2009
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
Were Jet officially responsible for sacking 1000 workers in September?
Much before its sack order to 1,900 employees turned into a publicity nightmare, Jet Airways had handed marching orders to 1,000 workers and even managed to keep it under wraps.
According to informed sources, Jet Airways CEO Wolfgang Prock-Schauer had told investors that the company was able to synergise better between full service Jet Airways and budget airlines JetLite after trimming its staff.
"On the staff numbers, we have reduced the headcount in September by further 1,000 entries and now able to synergise the operations between Jet and JetLite," the sources said quoting Prock-Schauer.
Despite repeated attemps to elicit comments, Jet Airways spokesperson did not respond.
During September, Jet Airways had anounced that JetLite offered voluntary separation scheme to 687 employees.
In the same month, Jet and JetLite executed a codeshare agreement aimed at offering better connections and wider connectivity, besides having a common reservation system.
The carrier, which has a total of 13,000 employees, played out the sacking-and-reinstatement drama of 1,900 employees in October, with Chairman Naresh Goyal 'overruling' its Board decision to fire the employees.
"I apologise for all the agony you had to go through for two days. You can all come back to work from tomorrow. We have decided to take back all the employees," Goyal had said in a midnight press conference.
Jet came under attack from various ministers and agitating employees for the sudden decision to sack so many people immediately, especially ahead of Diwali. It, however, defended itself stating that the decision was taken to save the jobs of the other 11,100 employees and would result in savings of $1million a month.
Source: Agencies
According to informed sources, Jet Airways CEO Wolfgang Prock-Schauer had told investors that the company was able to synergise better between full service Jet Airways and budget airlines JetLite after trimming its staff.
"On the staff numbers, we have reduced the headcount in September by further 1,000 entries and now able to synergise the operations between Jet and JetLite," the sources said quoting Prock-Schauer.
Despite repeated attemps to elicit comments, Jet Airways spokesperson did not respond.
During September, Jet Airways had anounced that JetLite offered voluntary separation scheme to 687 employees.
In the same month, Jet and JetLite executed a codeshare agreement aimed at offering better connections and wider connectivity, besides having a common reservation system.
The carrier, which has a total of 13,000 employees, played out the sacking-and-reinstatement drama of 1,900 employees in October, with Chairman Naresh Goyal 'overruling' its Board decision to fire the employees.
"I apologise for all the agony you had to go through for two days. You can all come back to work from tomorrow. We have decided to take back all the employees," Goyal had said in a midnight press conference.
Jet came under attack from various ministers and agitating employees for the sudden decision to sack so many people immediately, especially ahead of Diwali. It, however, defended itself stating that the decision was taken to save the jobs of the other 11,100 employees and would result in savings of $1million a month.
Source: Agencies
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