Lufthansa to increase frequency of flights from Bangalore
Lufthansa German Airlines Director (South Asia) Werner Heesen said the airlines is keen on introducing more flights to Bangalore-Munich sector. “Bangalore is a booming centre for airline business and India is our stratergic destination. We are keen on adding more flights to this sector — especially, Bangalore — Munich sector, where the IT professionals are travelling in large numbers,” said Lufthansa German Airlines Director (South Asia) Werner Heesen, while making a presentation to visiting Indian media at Lufthansa headquarters in Frankfurt on Tuesday. He also pointed out that Lufthansa is adding new destinations like Kochi, Ahmedabad, Pune etc. Both the German and Indian governments have agreed to meet shortly and we are hopeful of a positive outcome from this bilateral talks. From our side, we have submitted the proposal and hope that the Indian government will open up more rights to operate, Mr Heesen said.
At present, Lufthansa is operating daily flights to Hyderabad, New Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai and Bangalore from Frankfurt apart from daily flights to Delhi from Munich and three times weekly services to Kolkata from Frankfurt. While talking about Lufthansa’s investment plans in India, Mr Heesen said: “All our subsidary companies are extremely doing well — Lufthansa Technik, aircraft maintenance division, has set up a joint venture with GMR Group to build an aircraft Maintenance, Repair & Overhaul (MRO) facility at Hyderabad. One Stop Airline MRO in Delhi handles airline clients, LSG Sky Chef, catering arm of Lufthansa, is already present in Bangalore and Hyderabad. Meanwhile, Lufthansa is likely to tie up with Taj Group of Hotels in India. Lufthansa Airlines Vice President (Marketing) Andreas Bierwirth said this tie-up would be for frequent flyer programme, miles and more. This would mean Lufthansa frequent flyer, can secure miles for the money. In case of Taj Hotels, the passenger will earn more miles if he decided to stay at Taj Hotels. An announcement will take place in India in August.
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At 11:52 AM ,
Martin said...
The real estate is one sector that features as one of the most badly hit sectors following the global economic meltdown. Especially in developing countries like India, where real estate was going great guns, so to say, faced a steep downfall following the recession and inflation. Especially in the metros and the developing cities like Bangalore, real estate suffered dearly as the demand for the residential units, though increasing became a pent up demand. The badly hit economy particularly the IT sector that has a strong foothold in Bangalore, and the high rates of interest in home loans made the demand for residential units go down or at best become a pent up demand. It is believed that once the situation stabilizes the demands would start surfacing. Another very problematic issue that the real estate dealers are facing is that patrons of the currently booked flats are not willing to pay the original price that they had agreed on but the current price that is less than the original amount owing to the current economic condition. Not only the residential units but the commercial properties like the hotels in Bangalore have also naturally seen a drop in their occupancy. The ITC hotels in Bangalore that registered the highest occupancy, as high as 83%, have been forced to cut down on their tariffs by almost 20% as the occupancy has also gone down by 20%. On the contrary, the business hotels in Bangalore are surviving the tough times as the number of business travelers has not been affected as hard as the umber of leisure hotels. The budget hotels in Bangalore have seen a hike owing to the obvious reasons.
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