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Vijay Mallya promoted Kingfisher Airlines plans to lay off around 300 employees. The airline said it was part of an integration process with the former Air Deccan (which became Simplifly Deccan and now known as Kingfisher Red).

So finally, after all the delays in the project as well as the inauguration plans, the BIAL Airport at Bangalore was opened to the public. Earlier, the Karnataka High Court rejected applications seeking stay of the notification announcing the closure of HAL airport. The Court also criticised the Central and State govts for not being adequately prepared as [...]

If you are a frequent air traveller and often find yourself having to cancel your tickets due to a change in schedule, it’s time to rejoice. Till now, airlines always refused to entertain any requests for refunds, and often put this amount (less some cancellation charges) in your “credit” balance. This meant you had to fly that [...]

Well, if the latest protests by the city’s corporate honchos is anything to go by, the state government definitely has a problem on it’s hands. Come May 23, the HAL airport is to be shut down and the BIAL airport is to commence operations. The opening of this airport has been in the offing for a while now [...]

I was looking up some flights to Bangalore a while ago and was surprised to suddenly find an absence of any regular morning flights, either on weekdays or weekends. Even the Saturday Indigo flight, usually around noon, was pushed to a 5 pm slot. The morning newspaper cleared those doubts in a jiffy. It seems the Pune [...]

Yup, it truly is. The past couple of weeks have seen me trying to grapple with commuting on the Pune University Road. Some years ago, a couple of flyovers were being constructed here and that completely threw the traffic out of gear, especially during the monsoon. Now, it is the resurfacing or ‘concretisation’ of that road [...]

It seemed a normal morning at work today when all of a sudden, I started getting a flurry of calls from my colleagues, informing me that they were delayed coming to work due to a strike called by the autorickshaw drivers. As is the norm nowadays, once again it is the common folk who are held to ransom.  [...]