US asks Tickets portals to Disclose Airlines Information

The US authorities have issued a circular asking all the airlines Booking portals to specify in advance the airlines that will be boarded by the passengers for the Booked Tickets. The U.S. airlines and online travel portals have been given 60 days to comply with the new rules. The passengers would now be able to know which carriers will be flying them and hence be able to make informed online purchase and Tickets Booking.


The outcry over arbitrary airlines allocation came after the crash of a regional jet in 2009 near Buffalo in United states that killed all 49 people aboard the aircraft as well as one person on the ground.

The twin-engine plane was operated by Colgan Air, a unit of Pinnacle Airlines Corp, as a Continental Connection flight, resulting from code share agreement between both the airlines. The agreements called Third party Code shares are frequent with many regional affiliates in the market. But there exists huge disparity in Skills of the pilots, services and working conditions among major and regional players. The present law is to plug these safety issues. The step would have impact on all airlines Booking including Flights to India.

Thai Airways to Launch Northeast India Flights

In a major Boost towards the connectivity for the eastern India, Thailand government has confirmed that the Thai Airways, the national carrier of Thailand would be starting direct flights to Assam capital Guwahati. It has been observed that there has been growing number of Indians visiting Thailand for tourism and The flights to the Eastern region will be also a step towards initiating more Business visitors to the country.


But the flights are expected to initiated not before the end of January 2011. Currently Thai Airways have direct flights to Indian cities including Mumbai, Delhi, Kolkata and Bangalore.The move would also boost the opportunity to Thai construction companies to invest in India. The move also come at a time when the aviation sector in India is seeing major growth potential with most of the airline flying at 80-90% occupancy and opening an untapped market may be profitable for Thai Airways.Presently most of the airline do not have direct flight to the Northeast region of India.