Vistara to ramp up manpower to 5,000 this year, says CEO Vinod Kannan
NEW DELHI: Vistara plans to significantly ramp up its staff strength to a total of 5,000 by the end of this year as the full service carrier focuses on increasing capacity utilisation, expanding fleet and further improving overall services. Currently, the airline has around 4,000 people. After being significantly hit by the coronavirus pandemic, including […]
Vistara commences daily flight service to Sharjah
NEW DELHI: Full service carrier Vistara on Wednesday commenced its daily flight service to Sharjah in the UAE from Delhi under the air bubble agreement. Sharjah is Vistara’s second destination in the UAE after Dubai where it operates four times weekly flight services from Delhi, the airline said in a release. Delhi-Sharjah-Dubai flight will be […]
Vistara to start non-stop flight services between New Delhi, Frankfurt
NEW DELHI: Full-service carrier Vistara on Thursday said it will commence non-stop special flight services between New Delhi and Frankfurt in Germany, under the air bubble agreement, starting February 18. The services to the German city will be operated twice a week, on Thursdays and Saturdays, with Vistara’s brand-new Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner aircraft, the Delhi-based […]
Vistara inaugurates flight services on Delhi-Doha route
NEW DELHI: Vistara has started operating flights between Delhi and Doha under an air bubble arrangement between India and Qatar, the full service airline said on Friday. The inaugural flight departed on Thursday from Delhi at 8 pm and landed in Doha at 9.45 pm (local time), it said in a statement. The airline will […]
Vistara to start Delhi-Doha flights from November 19
NEW DELHI: Full service airline Vistara on Wednesday said it will commence flights from New Delhi to Doha from November 19. The services on the new route would be operated twice a week with an Airbus A320 neo aircraft in a three-class configuration — business, premium economy and economy, according to a release. Doha is […]
Vistara to start flights to Bangladesh from November 5 under air bubble pact
NEW DELHI: Tata-SIA joint venture airline Vistara on Tuesday said it will launch flight services to Bangladesh from India, starting November 5, under the recently signed air bubble agreement between the two countries. Vistara’s announcement comes a day after budget carrier SpiceJet said it will operate flights to Dhaka and port city Chittagong from India […]
Vistara to operate more flights from Delhi, Mumbai to Goa as demand rises
NEW DELHI: Vistara will operate more flights to Goa from Delhi and Mumbai from Sunday as there has been a “positive response and demand” on these sectors, said a senior airline official on Wednesday. The airline plans to operate two more weekly flights on the Delhi-Goa route and one more weekly flight on the Mumbai-Goa […]
Vistara increases flight frequency between Delhi and London
NEW DELHI: Full-service carrier Vistara on Thursday said it has boosted service between Delhi and London Heathrow for the winter schedule. The airline is operating these flights as part of the bilateral “transport bubble” agreement between India and the UK. “The airline has increased frequency from the current 4x weekly to 5x weekly flights from […]
Airlines free to set baggage limit
NEW DELHI: The government of India (Centre) on Thursday freed airlines to fix their own baggage allowance, thereby allowing more space for competition and addition of another revenue stream. The development comes months after the Centre had fixed a limit of only one check-in and one hand-baggage per passenger since the resumption of domestic operations […]
Vistara: First airline to offer in-flight WiFi internet on B787-9
NEW DELHI: Accordingly, the service will be available on flights between Delhi and London Heathrow. “This makes Vistara the first Indian airline to offer the service,” the airline said in a statement. “Vistara plans to soon introduce the service on its Airbus A321 neo aircraft as well, subject to regulatory approvals.” As per the airline, […]
Vistara operates maiden long-haul flight from Delhi to London
NEW DELHI: Vistara operated its first long-haul flight from Delhi to London on Friday using its newly inducted Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner aircraft, the airline said here. The full-service carrier is scheduled to operate special thrice-weekly flights from August 28 to October 24 between the two cities, it said in a statement. These special flights are […]
If ‘Rotten T’ gets Air India, I will file criminal complaint: Subramanian Swamy
NEW DELHI: Rajya Sabha MP Subramanian Swamy on Friday sounded a warning that if ‘Rotten T’ gets Air India, he will file a criminal complaint against government bigwigs. “If ‘Rotten T’ gets Air India despite ED investigation on money laundering by Tatas for Air Asia, payment in Dubai to a terrorist, FIPB fraud in getting […]
Vistara receives its first A321neo aircraft with flat-bed business class
NEW DELHI: Vistara, a joint venture between TATA group and Singapore Airlines Limited (SIA), took delivery of its first Airbus A321neo aircraft in New Delhi today. The aircraft, arriving from Airbus’ final assembly lines in Hamburg, Germany, features India’s most advanced aircraft cabin in the sky with fully flat beds in business class. Overall, Vistara’s […]
Vistara in talks with Boeing to defer deliveries of Dreamliner planes
NEW DELHI: Tata-SIA-owned Vistara is in talks with the US aircraft maker Boeing to defer the deliveries of 787-900 (Dreamliner) planes as air travel demand is unlikely to rebound to the pre-Covid level before 2023, a source has said. The airline inducted one such plane in the fleet in February and one is expected to […]
Vistara to deploy A320neos with enhanced features on India-Singapore route
NEW DELHI: Vistara airline on Thursday announced that it has recently received three new A320neo planes with enhanced cabin features from Airbus and it would deploy them on its routes connecting India and Singapore from November 24 this year. Vistara has been operating daily flights on the Delhi-Singapore and the Mumbai-Singapore routes since August 6 […]
Vistara signs agreement with Airbus for parts, engineering support
NEW DELHI: Vistara, India’s full-service carrier and a joint venture of Tata Sons and Singapore Airlines, has signed a long-term contract to partner with Airbus for their Flight Hour Services – Tailored Support Package (FHS-TSP). The contract will cover engineering and maintenance for 62 aircraft, including 23 existing ones. The FHS-TSP contract provides integrated and guaranteed […]