The Hindu Business Line : Friday, September 16, 2005

`Delta will continue regular operations'
DELTA Air Lines, the US-based carrier that operates two daily flights from New York to Mumbai and Chennai, has announced that the company and its subsidiaries have filed for a Chapter 11 reorganisation in accordance with US law on Wednesday. ... More

Air India fuel bill up Rs 650 cr in '04-05
THE sustained rise in fuel prices drove Air India's fuel bill up by Rs 650 crore in 2004-05. However, the fuel surcharge imposed last year helped recover about 40 per cent of this additional cost. According to an airline spokesperson, AI is in ... More

New Air Deccan flights
BANGALORE: Air Deccan is launching additional daily flights on the Coimbatore-Bangalore and Coimbatore-Chennai sectors from September 26. The flights will be on ATR-72 aircraft and the bookings for the flights open on September 16 for ... More

IA to offer `Fortune Safari' prizes
INDIAN Airlines has launched yet another promotional scheme under which passengers travelling on its domestic sectors stand to win attractive prizes, including four Tata Safari cars. Passengers who have flown four times in a specific month ... More

INFRASTRUCTURE

Trans-national pipeline project — India, Pak may seek global certification on Iran gas reserves
INDIA and Pakistan may seek international certification on Iran's gas reserves once the structure of the trans-national pipeline is finalised. Iran is estimated to have the world's second largest gas reserves after Russia, and an international ... More

Govt bid to speed up land acquisition — Planning model concession agreement
"We would need to build strong regulatory mechanism and need investment protection and dispute resolution". More

SHIPPING

GE Shipping board approves demerger of offshore services
THE board of directors of Great Eastern Shipping Ltd, which met on Thursday, has approved the details of the scheme for demerger of its offshore services business into a separate company, Great Offshore Ltd. As per the details, shareholders of ... More

TRADE & LABOUR UNIONS

AAI workers to strike work on Sept 29
A DAY after the process for modernisation and restructuring of the Delhi and Mumbai airports kicked off, the Airports Authority of India Joint Employees Forum announced that they would strike work on September 29 to protest against the Government ... More

A different take-off
Employees of the Airports Authority of India demonstrating in the Capital on Thursday against the move for privatisation of airports.

RAILWAYS

A gourmet's odyssey
Sahib Sindh Sultan — a plush Pullman coach style dining car, with leather upholstery, woodwork and frosted glass partitions — sets the mood for the railway experience in fine dining. More

Toy train chugs on
Having chugged along tenuous times, Ooty's `toy train' looks to reclaim its romance and heritage. More

Feasibility report on Madurai-Kottayam BG line submitted
THE Centre for Entrepreneurship Development (CED) here has submitted a feasibility report for a new broad gauge (BG) line between Madurai and Kottayam to the Union Ministry of Railways. The report has suggested that the BG line was commercially ... More

SCR posts 16 pc growth in freight
THE South Central Railway (SCR) has registered 22.45 million tonnes (mt) freight loads up to August in the current financial year, as against 19.34 mt in the corresponding period last year, showing a growth of 16.1 per cent. The originating ... More

SCR releases in-house journal
HYDERABAD: The South Central Railway (SCR) has released `Rail Vani', a quarterly bilingual (English and Hindi) in-house magazine. "The house journal will act as an instrument to bridge the gap between the management and ... More

Ships in Ports

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