Deccan, India's first and fastest growing low cost carrier, has crossed the 15 million mark in terms of passenger volume .It also recorded a 33 percent year on year increase compared to passenger volume in 2006.
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Deccan India’s first and fastest growing low cost carrier today added another honor to its burgeoning list of awards and distinctions. Deccan has been adjudged India’s Best Domestic low cost carrier for year 2007, for the second year in a row by Galileo Express Travel World Awards.
The Galileo Express TravelWorld Awards is instituted by Galileo India Pvt. Ltd in collaboration with Express Travel World Express – India’s foremost Travel Business Magazine from the Indian Express Group.
The prestigious Galileo Express TravelWorld Awards recognize significant innovation and outstanding contribution in the Indian travel, tourism and hospitality industry. The awards are decided by a distinguished jury drawn from within the industry and the Indian Express Editorial Advisory Board. The winners were felicitated by Mr. Shekhar Gupta Editor in- Chief and CEO Indian Express Group at a gala ceremony in Mumbai.
Mr. Ramki Sundaram, Officiating CEO Deccan on receiving the award said, “We are proud of being adjudged India’s best low-cost carrier for the second consecutive year. At Deccan we work towards creating and surpassing industry benchmarks. The award is recognition of our commitment to innovation and excellence in all areas of operation, which has helped make air travel in India more affordable and accessible than ever before. Going forward our operational efficiency and customer service is going to be the key differentiator in the LCC business segment”.
source: www.transportweekly.com
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Low-cost airline Deccan is planning to fly to destinations in South East Asia and the Middle East after completion of five years of domestic operations in August 2008 Read more!
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Costs of an ongoing merger, a lean passenger season, and softening ticket yields have seen India’s biggest low-cost airline, Air Deccan, posting its largest ever quarterly net loss of Rs253.18 crore in July-September, its first quarter this year, nearly six times the loss in the year-ago period. Join
The performance signals continued financial challenges for a carrier attempting to reinvent itself after a buyout and a new chief executive took over at the helm of the airline.
The losses in the comparable period last year were just under Rs43 crore for the quarter ended September 2006, but the airline then had seen a one-time income from outside sources made on asset sales. In just this one quarter, the airline’s losses equal 55% of the company’s annual losses for the last financial year, which it ended on 30 June with about Rs419 crore in the red.
Deccan Aviation Ltd, the airline’s parent company, has been in transition after United Breweries (Holdings) Ltd bought out a 26% stake in the airline on 1 June. Since then, both Deccan and Kingfisher Airlines Ltd, which is also owned by United Breweries, have worked together to improve Deccan’s performance and customer perception, which had suffered because of late flights, cancellations and the physical condition of the company’s planes.
02/11/07 Mehul Srivastava/Livemint
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Low cost carrier Smplifly Deccan (erstwhile Air Deccan) has launched tele check-in facility for all its passengers at all of its 65 destinations.
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At Air Deccan, India's first Low cost carrier, our endeavor is to bring flying within the reach of every Indian. Today we fly over 350 daily flights across 64 destinations spanning the length and breadth of the country. We are expanding our network to deeper pockets in the interiors of our country to provide improved air connectivity to the nation. Join
Call Centre Executives
Job Description :
Air Deccan has a 24 / 7 all India call centre which handles reservations, re-scheduling and cancellations of tickets apart from assisting customers with their queries and issues. We are looking for sprightly and energetic males and females who would want to be a part of our vision to “empower every Indian to fly”.
Qualifications: Undergraduates / graduates with minimum 1 year experience. Good communication skills are a must.
Contracts and Insurance Administrator
Job Description :
* Invitation of proposals for short term / long term contracts pertaining to Aircraft operations and maintenance from authorized / recommended vendors.
* Negotiate the terms and conditions with the vendors/suppliers in consultation / conjunction with various sister departments of Air Deccan like the User, Legal, Finance etc.
* Monitoring of the vendor performance with respect to performance / execution of the relevant contracts as per the inputs from the end user.
* Corresponding at Senior Level with all service providers.
* Annual review of the contracts with recommendation for reviewing / revisiting of the contracts.
* Submission of monthly, quarterly and annual reports of all the contracts.
Submission of completion reports/status reports with comments on execution of short term contracts.
* To refer Insurance claims and be the focal point of Air Deccan for insurance related issues.
* To collate and provide required details and documents to the Insurance Company.
* To submit monthly, quarterly and annual reports on the status of all the Insurance claims.
* To maintain close contact with the relevant departments and pursue the claims to its logical conclusion.
* To maintain separate files on each insurance claim, together with all relevant correspondence / cost estimates / final settlement.
* Hold regular meetings with Insurer to establish progress of claims
External Cleaning Manager
Job Responsibilities:
A. Exterior Aircraft cleaning
* Produce a cleaning plan and forecast and work with the contract GHA’s to ensure that the aircraft our cleaned to the schedule,
* Ensure that the quality of the work is maintained and regular monthly audits are maintained on all GHA with respect to cleaning,
* Ensure that aircraft are not damaged during the cleaning process.
Windows scratched paint scratched skins dented etc,
* Produce a cleaning procedure for pressure washing and hand washing listing all approved chemicals to be used
* Ensure that all published company procedures are followed by the relevant GHA
* Negotiate all cleaning contracts and ensure that the GHAs are compliant with the contract
* Ensure that all lapses on the GHA’s side are documented and deducted from the contract on a monthly basis
B. Interior cleaning
* Ensure that daily audits are produced for all interior cleaning monitor and work with the GHA’s to ensure that standards are maintained
* Work with the cabin maintenance manager to produce an annual plan for carpet and seat cover replacements/cleaning stocks of seat covers to be maintained at all bases for replacements were soiled
* Ensure that a deep clean program is planed on a weekly bases for each aircraft work with GHA to ensure standards are maintained
* Monitor cockpit cleaning to ensure that cleaning standards are maintained working with cabin maintenance manager
Qualifications: Graduate with aviation background
Experience: 3 to 5 years in aviation
Head Planning
Job Responsibilities:
* Closely liaise with Sales & Marketing department to create new schedules
* Closely liaise with Operations & Line Maintenance to plan for schedules in consonance with planned operational and maintenance requirements
* Planning of schedules including projected schedules
* Ensure timely inspection and clearance from DGCA and ministry as also approvals from institutions such as MOD, Air Force, and Navy etc.
* Closely liaise with DGCA to ensure planned schedules are approved and cleared for implementation as per Company’s plans
* Slot management including securing of prime time slots to optimize the yield
* Regularly apprise the Management on the progress of clearances and inspection of new airports
* Continuously monitor competitor scheduling plans and apprise the Management
* Ensure advance planning for time disruptions, diversions, airport start up
* Act as the point of initiation for airport start ups and coordinate all connected activities with respect to smooth opening of new airports
* Study the existing schedule and plan for rescheduling flights to optimize yields and loads during low periods of activity
* On time monitoring of flights and innovate to schedule for disruptions
* Secure adhoc DGCA approvals for schedules during low periods of activity
* Plan in advance
* Responsible for securing Adhoc DGCA approvals for no time activity
* Plan for charter operations, advance disruption planning
* Utilize ARMS as the main planning tool and ensure new schedules and changes in schedules are uploaded well in time
Qualifications: Post graduate with aviation background
Experience: 5 to 8 years in aviation
Route Planning Specialists
Qualifications: Graduates
Experience:3-4 years experience from Railways/ Banks/Telecom Companies specializing in route planning and analyzing potential new routes for the airline
Location Bangalore
Air Deccan, 35 Cunningham Road,
Opp Canara Bank,
Bangalore 560052
Email : careers@airdeccan.net
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Hit by monsoon blues, budget carriers, Air Deccan and SpiceJet, have suffered loss in market share during July 2007 — the latest month for which official traffic data is available. According to Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) figures, full-service carriers marginally increased their market share during the month. Join
Country’s largest low-cost carrier, Air Deccan, saw its market share going down to 16.1% in July this year, down by 2 percentage points as compared to the previous month. SpiceJet’s share stood at 7.7% during the month as against 7.7% in June.
SpiceJet’s seat factor declined to 71.4% during July as compared to 77.9% in June. Seat factor of Air Deccan fell too sharply in July to 67.7% from 84.8% in June. The declining share of the two low-cost players is probably on account of hike in fares which has improved their revenues.
SpiceJet officials, however, could not be contacted for comment. Market share of full service airlines — Indian, Jet Airways and Kingfisher –– increased marginally. The market share of Indian went up to 20.5% in July as compared to 19.8% in June. Jet, the market leader, increased its share to 22.7% as compared to 22% in the previous month. Kingfisher increased its market share to 13% in July as compared to 12.9% in June.
22/09/07 Nirbhay Kumar/Economic Times
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Air Deccan, India’s first low-fare carrier promoted by silk farmer-turned-aviator G. Gopinath, will be now rebranded as “Simplifly Deccan”. Join
Simplifly is the tagline of the Air Deccan brand and the name of the airline’s in-flight magazine.
The rebranding exercise was started after UB Group, which runs premium airline Kingfisher Airlines and is owned by liquor baron Vijay Mallya, acquired a 26% stake in Deccan Aviation Ltd that operates Air Deccan.
This Bangalore-based no-frills carrier will also ditch the logo of two palms joining together to reflect a flying bird or the tail of an airplane and will use the Kingfisher bird logo, which is also the UB Group logo.
Deccan’s aircraft would also be painted red and white, similar to Kingfisher Airlines’ colours, instead of the current blue and white. The uniform of Deccan’s cabin crew will also be changed to red and white from the current blue and yellow. This, too, will sport a logo of Kingfisher.
Another person, who does not want to be quoted, said though the brand would be named as Simplifly Deccan, there will not be any change in the company’s name or website.
12/09/07 P.R. Sanjai/Livemint
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UB Group could strengthen its position in Air Deccan by raising its stake in the low cost carrier to 51% in the next few months—making the price warrior a subsidiary company of the group.
The Bangalore-based liquor conglomerate, which runs Kingfisher Airlines, bought a 26% stake in Air Deccan in early June and is on schedule to make an open offer for 20% more that opens next week. Besides this, sources say, other investors are willing to sell about 4-5% stake, taking the UB group holding up to 51%.
An absolute majority will enable the Kingfisher group to take major decisions to synergise operations of the two carriers. Airline sources said, one of the major decisions is expected to be in respect to whether the Air Deccan brand will be retained for future operations.
Asked about it, Kingfisher chairman Vijay Mallya said a decision on the issue will be taken only after a formal market evaluation.
source: Economic Times
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