Jet Airways And Galileo Announce New Initiative For TAs
Jet Airways have unveiled a new facility, which gives travel agents (TAs), the ability to print automated tickets of the airline in their agency locations. This unique initiative has been partnered in association with Galileo India and will prove to be beneficial to travel agents across the country.

As a result of this partnership, Galileo India will provide their subscribers in the trade (who meet their minimum segment booking productivity levels on Jet Airways), an automated ticket printer and it is targeted that such printers will be rolled out across the country within the next few months.

Gaurang Shetty, general manager, marketing, Jet Airways mentioned that the airline’s endeavour was to provide automated tools to travel trade business partners. With this new initiative, Galileo subscribers will not have to write out manual tickets for Jet Airways flights thereby enhancing their productivity levels, reducing errors, and improving on end-services that Jet travellers receive via the agency partners.

Galileo is pleased to partner with Jet Airways on this new development, which will be welcomed by our subscribers. We hope to work closely with the airline in the future and develop unique solutions for the travel trade fraternity, asserted Raja Natesan, general manager, Galileo India.

Cathay Pacific Offers Discount On Asia Miles Redemptions
Cathay Pacific Airways have announced a 30 per cent discount on Asia Miles economy class redemptions to over 20 destinations worldwide. For example, a round trip Asia Miles economy class award ticket from Hong Kong to Sydney will require only 31,500 Asia Miles instead of the regular 45,000 Asia Miles. Similarly, an economy class award flight to Manila from Hong Kong will be available to members for just 17,500 Asia Miles.

Asia Miles members can enjoy these savings when redeeming one way and round trip economy class awards on the airline for travel between 01 February and 31 March, 2001 and between 1-31 May, 2001 between the following destinations: Hong Kong, Taipei, Jakarta, Denpasar, Surabaya, Singapore, Manila, Ho Chi Minh City, Hanoi, Kuala Lumpur, Colombo, Dubai, Bahrain, Karachi, Adelaide, Sydney, Melbourne, Perth, Cairns, Brisbane, Auckland, Amsterdam and Paris.

United Airlines’ Plan To Increase Network
Subsequent to the decision to relaunch its round-the-world-service from New Delhi from April 1, United Airlines (UA) is looking at spreading its services to other cities including Chennai and Mumbai. Michael J Purchon, general manager-India had mentioned that the airline was now offering a number of connecting services through out India by working with other airlines. UA is looking at additional cities in India, with great interest, and will need to get the New Delhi service running smoothly and achieve profitability.

He further added that Chennai is a big market for the airline as well as Bangalore. And South India as a whole is growing very rapidly. As part of its launch activity, a series of road shows would be organised in 10 cities.

Pointing out that UA would be creating history (as it would fly all round the world) besides being the largest foreign airline to fly out of New Delhi, operating 14 Boeing Jumbo 747-400 jets per week from April 2, Purchon mentioned that the introduction of round-the-world service, would make it the only airline with single-carrier service. The decision to resume the service was driven by rapid growth of the Indian market, especially increasing customer demands in New Delhi for accessing the US, Europe and Asia.