With the induction of another jet taking the fleet strength to five, Chennai-based Paramount Airways will offer 48 daily flights, covering most of the important towns in the South. It will carry over 3,500 passengers.
Expansion plans
Unveiling the expansion plans at a news conference here on Friday coinciding with the completion of one-year of operations, M. Thiagarajan, managing director, said the airline would introduce a fourth service between Hyderabad and Bangalore, a mid-day flight between Chennai and Coimbatore and an early morning flight from Chennai to Kochi from November 8.
Apart from linking Coimbatore and Hyderabad, the airline will introduce a new direct flight between Chennai and Thiruvananthapuram from November 18. The other new routes are: Hyderabad-Bangalore, Hyderabad-Vishakapatnam, Bangalore-Hyderabad-
Coimbatore-Bangalore.
Mr. Thiagarajan said the airlines would have 20 jets by 2009.
Negotiations were in an advanced stage for inking agreements with several international airlines besides opening up ticketing offices in Singapore and other Southeast Asian points.
Source: The Hindu
Sunday, November 05, 2006
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PARAMOUNT AIRWAYS PREFERS HINDI SPEAKERS ONLY; SORRY TAMILIANS NOT WANTED AT PARAMOUNT AIRWAYS!
When Paramount Airways was introduced, every one might have been exited that for the first time airline based out of Tamil Nadu was started. There was also expectation that the aviation sector in Tamil Nadu would improve. For a long time Bangalore was the only headquarters for all airline. TamilNadu was a desert of aviation enterprise ever since Air Asiatic wound up.
There was also reports of Tamil newspapers inflight abort Paramount, which would have attracted exitement in the emotional TN market.
To tell the truth Paramount Airways is no different from they claim to be. They are just part of the Hindi-speaking herd which are based in Tamil Nadu only in name.
THeir vacancies within Tamil Nadu DO NOT care for knowledge of Tamil but require Hindi. Speaking Tamil is considered shameful in India’s aviation industry. Speaking Hindi is actual considered good etiquette. Paramount Airways has also shown this preference.
They barely link 3 of the busiest airports in Tamil Nadu, which others like Air Deccan have already been doing.
The only thing Paramount Airways is unique is that they are the most expensive.
To sum it up, being an expensive airline which at the end of the day you get the usual English and Hindi only treatment, you would rather pick others for less.
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