The FAA has restored a Category 1 rating to India under the FAA’s International Aviation Safety Assessment program. The restored Category 1 rating permits India’s airlines to add new flights to the United States using their own aircraft and also to carry the flight codes of U.S. carriers on their flights.

Read more

The CEOs of all Star Alliance member airlines have unanimously approved Air India becoming a member of the alliance, with effect from July 11.

Read more

Singapore Airlines plans to operate A380s daily to both Mumbai and New Delhi from May 30, replacing daily flights that currently serve each city using Boeing 777-200s. SIA will continue to operate a second daily flight on each of the routes with Boeing 777-200s.

Read more

Air Costa’s firm order is for 25 Embraer 190-E2s and 25 Embraer 195-E2s. Its purchase rights are for an additional 25 Embraer 190-E2s and 25 Embraer 195-E2s, bringing the total potential order to up to 100 aircraft.

Read more

Abu Dhabi-based Etihad Airways has agreed to pay $379 million to acquire a 24 per cent shareholding in the Indian carrier Jet Airways. Additionally, a wider overall commitment to Jet Airways by Etihad Airways includes the UAE-based airline injecting $220 million to create and strengthen a wide-ranging partnership between the two carriers.

Read more

Abu Dhabi’s Etihad Airways will add Addis Ababa, Ethiopia’s capital, to its rapidly growing network in November and will also launch service from its hub to the Indian city of Ahmedabad in the same month.

Read more

American Airlines and British Airways have received approval from the Indian government to place American’s ‘AA’ flight code on British Airways’ flights from London to Bangalore, Chennai, Delhi, Hyderabad and Mumbai.

Read more

According to Qatar Airways, the new service provides U.S. travelers flying from New York, Houston, or Washington, D.C. with convenient connections at Qatar’s capital Doha to Kolkata, India’s third-largest city.

Read more

The agreement between GoAir, which bills itself as ‘The Fly Smart Airline’, and Airbus was signed on June 23 at the 49th Le Bourget Airshow in Paris.

Read more

Including Singapore Airlines’ three flights each week to the Indian city, the two airlines will operate a total of seven round-trip services per week.

Read more

Carlson is planning to have more than 100 hotels in operation in India by 2015, according to Hubert Joly, Carlson’s president and chief executive officer, who announced the target during a signing ceremony for two new hotel agreements in India.

Read more

The world-famous Taj Mahal Palace hotel in Mumbai has re-opened its Palace wing following a complete restoration, which was begun after terrorist attacks in Mumbai from November 26 to November 28, 2008 caused substantial damage to the 107-year-old hotel.

Read more

Carlson has expanded its India portfolio with the opening of its 30th hotel in the country, the 201-room Radisson Hotel Indore.

Read more

India’s Kingfisher Airlines became a member-elect of the oneworld Alliance on June 7 after completing a formal membership agreement with the alliance.

Read more

Carlson Hotels has signed agreements to open 75 Radisson, Country Inns & Suites By Carlson, Park Inn and Park Plaza hotels in the Asia Pacific region by 2013 and will launch 18 new hotels in the region this year. Six of the new hotels opening this year will be Radissons in India.

Read more

United Arab Emirates-based Etihad Airways has launched a new service to Hyderabad in India from its hub at Abu Dhabi International Airport.

Read more

The first Four Points by Sheraton hotel in the Indian city of Jaipur will open in October. The 115-room Four Points by Sheraton Jaipur, City Square, is also JHM Interstate Hotels India’s first managed hotel in India.

Read more

Organic cosmetics company Surya Brasil is holding a World Dance Festival in New Delhi, the capital of India, from September 10 to September 13.

Read more