It is official. As reported by Bangalore Aviation in June last year, Mr. Hari Marar will assume leadership of the airport operations group from Marcel Hungerbuehler, as President – Operations from March 1, 2011, at the Bengaluru International Airport Ltd. We will bring you an interview in due course with both these gentlemen. Stay tuned.

Aided by the resurgent Indian economy, improvement in global business and leisure travel, Mumbai based Jet Airways group (Jet Airways, Jet Airways Konnect, and JetLite) posted strong results for the third quarter of fiscal year 2011, which ended December 31, 2010 Profit before tax for group for the quarter increased a whopping 122% from Rs. 109.8 crore (US$ 23.6 million) …

With the addition of more aircraft in its fleet, Gurgaon based low fare carrier IndiGo, is launching seven new flights on its network taking the daily count to 221 flights across 24 domestic destinations. The airline will operate its eight daily non-stop between Delhi to Mumbai, fifth daily non-stop between Delhi to Bangalore, a second daily flight between Delhi and …

In a first for India, Miles & More, the frequent flier programme of the Lufthansa group has tied up with Nuance duty free shop at Bengaluru International Airport to offer its members earning of frequent flier miles while shopping. Miles & More cardholders can earn 2 award miles for every US$1 (approx Rs. 44) spent at Nuance’s duty free shops …