Paramount Airways receives International Quality Award

Chennai, 13 March 2008

Paramount Airways, the leading airline in South India has been awarded "The Century International Quality Era" in the gold category at the International Quality Convention in Geneva Switzerland.

At a gala function organised on the 10th march Mr Thiagarajan, Managing Director received this award in a well attended business gathering from all over the world.

This international award has been given to Paramount for furthering our reputation and position by implementing customer service excellence through quality and innovation. The award recognises the company's contribution to quality, continuous improvement and customer satisfaction as well as improving relations with employees,suppliers and all those associated with the company.

Paramount Airways through its service excellence and its unique business model has already emerged a leader in the southern skies. The success of this business model has been globally recognised and is now being tried out by other international airlines like Lufthansa, British Airways and Singapore Airlines who are now offering exclusive Business class in some of their routes.

Paramount enjoys a high load factor in a sustained manner due to the innovative offerings that it introduced as India's First All Business Class Airline.

Earlier last year, the airlines won the Prestigious " International Arch of Eurpoe Award" for technology and innovation.

About Paramount Airways: Paramount today connects Chennai, Madurai, Coimbatore, Bangalore, Hyderbad, Vizag, Kochi and Trivandrum. The airline will be expanding its operations from Bangalore to Pune & Goa with the induction of two new aircraft. In the South we will be adding additional sectors such as Trichy & Calicut. We will also be increasing the frequency from Bangalore connecting to Cochin, Trivandrum, Calicut & Hyderabad once the additional aircraft are in place.

Paramount Airways is the first premium service, all business class airlines, a unique business model and the first of its kind worldwide. Dispensing with Economy class and cramped middle seats, the airline welcomes its passengers aboard a world of difference--with state-of-the-art Embraer aircrafts; luxurious recline window or aisle seating, airport valet service, round-the-clock lounge access, gourmet meals and personalized in-flight attention.

The new generation Jet aircraft that is used by Paramount is one of the most advanced and modern jets ever made, translating into exceptional passenger safety. They have a state-of-the-art glass cockpit panels with full colour LCD displays and are completely of fly-by-wire system, offering excellent field performance and outstanding economics. Our aircraft are also equipped with ACARS (Airborne Communication). All Paramount Airway's aircrafts are equipped with Category II low visibility auto-land. This enables the aircraft to land automatically with the use of the Auto-Pilot in very low visibility and adverse conditions also.

Note to editors:
Promoted by Mr. M.Thiagarajan, a Business Management graduate and a qualified pilot with a passion for aviation. He is the World's youngest CEO in the Airline Industry. Mr. Thiagarajan hails from an illustrious Industrial family from South India that has been pioneers in the field of textile. He is also the Managing Director of M/s. Paramount Mills (P) Ltd., a leading textile manufacturing and exporting company that has a global market presence. Paramount last year the ‘Award of Excellence’ conferred by the Institute of Economic Studies. The institute also presented Mr. Thiagarajan with the ‘Udyog Ratan Award’. Mr. Thiagarajan also won the PRCI ‘Young Visionary Award’ last year.

For further details:
CR Kannan
Asst.Vice-President
Paramount Airways
Chennai.
044 43909035. 9840295499, kannan@paramountairways.com

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