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Flight Delays Increase Across All US Airports

Flight Delays Increase Across All US Airports
This chart compares the percentage of departing flights at major US airports that were either delayed or cancelled during the holiday season due to increased airport security.

Live Flight Tracking on Google Maps

Live Flight Tracking on Google Maps
Here’s a brilliant Google Maps based service that displays live movements of incoming and outgoing flights on a Google Map for live flight tracking.

Deccan may be renamed as Kingfisher Max

Deccan may be renamed as Kingfisher Max
After changing name from ‘Air Deccan’ to ‘Simplify Deccan’, a fresh round of name change is expected to happen with the new name most likely to be ‘Kingfisher Max’. And with growing ATF prices, the low-cost model certainly does not seem to work for now, as a result the low-cost characer of the airline would also go and it would operate on sectors with high load factor and low operating costs.

Air Deccan to turn red and white, shed the low-cost tag

Air Deccan to turn red and white, shed the low-cost tag
India’s first low-cost airline may soon turn into a ‘premium brand’ shedding its image of being a common man’s airline. Even the name may be changed by clipping the word Air and changing it to just ‘Deccan’.

Vijay Mallya uses NDTV to showcase the Kingfisher brand

Vijay Mallya uses NDTV to showcase the Kingfisher brand
NDTV’s lifestyle channel to be launched in September would have a close association with Vijay Mallya’s UB Group. The channel would portray group’s image catering to urban and global Indian, and would showcase programmes related to food, travel, gadgets, parties and everything up status.

Entertain yourself with a TV during your Shatabdi Trip

Entertain yourself with a TV during your Shatabdi Trip
Faced with competition and losing market share to low-cost airlines, Indian Railways is starting a pilot project to install flat-panel touch screen TV on individual seat in select North Indian Shatabdi trains.

The Global Indian Takeover – Vijay Mallya joins the list

The Global Indian Takeover – Vijay Mallya joins the list
After the Tata-Coru, Birla-Novelis, Tata Tea-Tetley, Tata-Daewoo trucks, Reliance-Flag Telecom, and countless rumours of Reliance-Dow Chemicals and Reliance-Carrefour, the latest to join the list is the ‘Richard Branson’ of India – Vijay Mallya.