$1.8m through fundraising programme
CATHAY Pacific Airways and the Hong Kong Committee for Unicef announced that HK$14.3 million ($1.84 million) was raised through “Change for Good”, the airline’s inflight fundraising programme, in the 2012 programme period. Since the programme was launched in 1991, more than HK$133 million has been donated by passengers to support Unicef programmes that help underprivileged children in more than 150 developing countries around the world.
At a cheque presentation ceremony to Unicef HK yesterday, Cathay Pacific Chief Operating Officer Ivan Chu stressed that the airline would continue to support Unicef’s good work.
Most of the money raised through the inflight fundraising programme goes to support Unicef’s projects worldwide for improving the lives of underprivileged women and children. An average of one month’s proceeds from the programme is donated to the Cathay Pacific Wheelchair Bank – an initiative set up in 1996 – to improve the mobility of Hong Kong children suffering from severe neuromuscular diseases.
Air Seychelles signs up with Accelya Kale
AIR Seychelles has outsourced its Passenger Revenue Accounting, Cargo Revenue Accounting, Airmail Revenue Accounting and Miscellaneous (Non-Transport) Billing to Accelya Kale. The transactions are being processed on Accelya Kale’s proprietary platforms – REVERA and FinesseMBS. The integrated solutions have enabled Air Seychelles to gain better control and monitoring through standardisation of processes across group airlines, prevent revenue leakage across passenger, cargo, airmail and miscellaneous billing processes, get accurate reporting to support business decision making, achieve industry compliance including IATA’s SIS (Simplified Interline Settlement) and get single-vendor accountability.
Pegasus takes off to Tirana
PEGASUS Airlines will launch its latest new destination of Albania’s Tirana on September 2, 2013 as part of its ambitious plans to expand its network. The service will run five times a week from Istanbul’s Sabiha Gokcen airport. Guests from London can fly to Tirana via Istanbul at fares starting from just £78.65 ($121) including taxes and charges. Pegasus’ latest new destination, Tirana, brings its network encompassing Europe, the Middle East, Russia and the Caucasus to 72 destinations in 30 countries, of which 43 are outside of Turkey.
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Oman Air introduces new Madinah services
OMAN Air has launched a new weekly service between Muscat and Madinah, in Saudi Arabia, marking the airline’s 43rd destination worldwide. The new service will offer flights from Muscat to Madinah on Tuesdays and returning from Medina to Muscat on the same day. In addition to travelling to and from Madinah passengers using the new service will also be able to travel in one direction to/from Madinah and return from/to Jeddah in the other, which offers the perfect flexibility especially for passengers travelling on religious pilgrimage.
The airline has also formally launched its exclusive new First Class and Business Class check-in lounge at Muscat International Airport aimed at continuing to offer high standards of service to its customers.
Rotana Jet adds services Sir Bani Yas
ROTANA Jet has increased capacity on its services to Sir Bani Yas Island with the addition of two more flights per week. The flights will operate between Al Bateen Executive Airport in Abu Dhabi and Sir Bani Yas Island on Sundays and Wednesdays will increase the total number of weekly flights serving Sir Bani Yas to five. The two new flights will be operated with Embraer Jet aircraft in a single class configuration, adding 250 seats each way per week on the route.