Tuesday, June 14, 2011

Air New Zealand

Air Newzealand is NewZealand’s flagship carrier based in Auckland. It is the country’s flag carrier operating more than 51 scheduled passenger flights daily across Asia, Oceania Europe and North America.

NewZealand air was founded in 1940. Initially its name was Tasman Empire Airways Limited. The airline began weekly flights from its primary hub Auckland to Sydney. It added Wellington and Fiji subsequently.

The government of New Zealand bought 50% in the airline.

Air New Zealand is a member of Star Alliance. It improved in economy class travel by offering couples beds in economy class passengers. Each onboard passenger gets a blanket and a loose normal-sized pillow.

The national carrier of Newzealand is operating Boeing 747, 767, 777 and Airbus A320 on its long-haul routes, and for short-haul operations Boeing 737.

Air Nelson, Eagle Airways and Mount Cook Airlines are the subsidaries of New Zealand Air.

Air New eland’s main focus cities are Christchurch, Los Angeles and Wellington.

New Zealand’s national carrier – Air New Zealand is the world’s 8th best airline to have awarded Airline of the Year in 2010 by the Air Transport World Global Airline Awards.

Air Arabia

Air Arabia is the Middle East’s largest low-cost carrier headquartered at Sharjah Freight Center, UAE. It operates daily scheduled flights to 46 destinations worldwide. Airarabia is a member of the Arab Ari Carriers organization.

With an issue of Amiri degree, Sultan bin Mohammad Al-Qasimi founded Air Arabia on 3rd February 2003. It became the first low-cost carrier in the Middle East and later kicked off operations in 2003.

There are numerous bases of the airline across Egypt, Jordan, Morocco and Nepal.

However, Arabia air’s focus cities are Alexandria and Casablanca.

Air Arabia has a fleet size of about 162 aircraft, including Airbus A320-214. The airline has also placed an order of 44 planes.

Air Arabia has stood up no. 1 LCC (Low Cost Carrier) for the year 2009 by Aviation Week.

The airline is engrossed in strategic expansion. They have started operating air service to Beirut, Lebanon from Alexandria, and Arabia’s Egyptian hub operates between Burj Al Arab International and Beirut-Rafic Hariri International Airport.

Middle East’s largest low-cost carrier offers five weekly flights between Sharjah, UAE and Goa, India. The airline also operates flights to Ahmadabad, Chennai, Coimbatore, Delhi, Goa, Hyderabad, Jaipur, Kochi, Kozhikode, Mumbai, Nagpur and Thiruvananthapuram.

Cheap ticket bookings of Air Arabia can be carried out online as well as offline to one’s convenience.