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Lufthansa Group names new CFO

- September 8, 2024 - princis
Till Streichert will join the airline group in September Lufthansa Group has appointed Till Streichert as chief financial officer. Streichert is currently the CFO at travel tech firm Amadeus and will assume his new role with the airline group on September 15 for a three-year term. He will also join the company’s executive board. Prior to joining Amadeus in Madrid in 2020, Streichert held a range of executive and financial management positions for the likes of T-Mobile in the UK, the Boston Consulting Group, Vodafone Romania and Vodacom South Africa. Lufthansa Group CEO and executive board chairman, Carsten Spohr, said…
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KSRTC’s superfast premium AC bus set to begin trial run | Travel

- June 10, 2024 - princis
The superfast premium air-conditioned bus launched by the Kerala State Road Transport Corporation (KSRTC) will begin its trial run soon. After the test run, the performance of the vehicle will be evaluated, and necessary changes will be made before deploying the vehicle in service. The 40-seater bus has pushback seats except at the rear. The side windows can be opened if the AC fails for any reason. The fare for the premium service is higher than that of the superfast service. The existing Volvo low-floor AC buses will be diverted exclusively for city service. In the first phase, 48 buses…
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121 passengers reach Kochi after 10 hours

- June 6, 2024 - princis
After waiting for more than 10 hours, 121 passengers out of 179 flyers of the Air India Express IX 1132, which had an emergency landing in Bengaluru on Saturday night, reached Kochi. Authorities informed that the rest of the passengers would reach Kochi later during the day, around evening. The flight had an emergency landing following a fire scare. The passengers staged a protest in Bengaluru airport as the airline issued boarding passes arbitrarily. Earlier, Aby Antony, one of the passengers, told Manorama News that the airline did not address their issues in a timely manner. Alternate flight arrangement triggered…
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All the Cruise Saudi prohibited goods: Alcohol, CDs, magazines and more

- June 5, 2024 - princis
Sign up to Simon Calder’s free travel email for expert advice and money-saving discounts Get Simon Calder’s Travel email Passengers booking voyages on Saudi Arabia’s first cruise ship have been warned not to bring scissors, CDs or ‘magazines that violate public decency’ on board. The vessel – which shares the name Aroya with the state-owned cruise line – is due to make its maiden voyage in December this year. Initially the ship will be sailing from its home port on the Red Sea, Jeddah, to Aqaba in Jordan and two Egyptian ports: Sharm el Sheikh on the Sinai Peninsula and…
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