INDIA: Airlines Offering Discount Offers On Domestic And International Flight Tickets

Airlines are offering a host of discount offers on domestic and international flight tickets.

The offers come amid high competition in the country's civil aviation market. Jet Airways is offering up to 30 per cent discount on base fare in premiere and economy class on select domestic as well as international flight tickets.

IndiGo is offering flight tickets at an all-inclusive starting price of Rs. 999. GoAir is offering flight tickets from Rs. 1,099, while AirAsia India has also announced flight tickets starting from Rs. 999 on select routes.

Jet Airways is offering up to 30 per cent discount on base fare in premiere and economy class on select domestic as well as international flight tickets.

Jet Airways' all-new Global Sale is valid for bookings done till September 7, 2018. According to the airline, the discount is available on 25 lakh seats.

However, tickets must be purchased a minimum of 8 days prior departure.

IndiGo is offering flight tickets at an all-inclusive starting price of Rs. 999. As part of its four-day special festival sale, the airline is offering 10 lakh seats.

The booking period of the offer ends on September 6, 2018. Under this scheme, IndiGo is offering domestic flight tickets starting at Rs. 999 and international flight tickets starting at Rs. 3,199.

The travel period of the offer starts on September 18, 2018 and ends on March 30, 2019.

GoAir is offering flight tickets at a starting all-inclusive price of Rs. 1,099. The booking period of the offer ends on September 5, 2018 and the travel period ends on March 31, 2019.

However, this scheme is valid across selective fare types and fare products, said the carrier.

AirAsia India has announced flight tickets starting from Rs. 999 on select routes under a limited-period offer. AirAsia India is offering flight tickets priced from an all-inclusive Rs. 999 on the Guwahati-Imphal, Bengaluru-Kochi and Bengaluru-Chennai routes, according to the airline's website - airasia.com.

Bookings under the sale offer are open till September 9, 2018.


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INDIA: Airlines Owe Rs 3,030 Crore To Airports Authority Of India

"In the case of Kingfisher Airlines, recovery suit has been filed in the Mumbai High Court for the overdues and also criminal proceedings for cheques issued by Kingfisher Airlines amounting to Rs 136.22 crore in 2012 which was dishonoured by the bank," he noted.

Various airlines, including the defunct Kingfisher, owed Rs 3,030 crore to the Airports Authority of India (AAI) at the end of December last year, the government said today. ”The total dues from various airlines as on December 31, 2015 amount to Rs 2,793.04 crore towards aeronautical charges and Rs 236.60 crore towards non-aeronautical charges,” Minister of State for Civil Aviation Mahesh Sharma told the Lok Sabha in a written reply.

He was responding to a query on whether various Indian and foreign airlines owe dues to AAI for availing of fuel and other facilities. In a reply to a question on whether Kingfisher, SpiceJet and GoAir

on December 31, 2015, SpiceJet and GoAir had to pay Rs 78.87 crore and Rs 50.89 crore, respectively, Sharma said.

“In the case of SpiceJet, the party is paying Rs 1.50 crore every day against which Rs 1.10 crore is adjusted against current operations charges and the balance towards overdues. Bank guarantee of Rs 82.50 crore is available for adjustment/encashment in case of default,” the minister said.

With regard to GoAir, Sharma said the dues are centrally monitored on a weekly basis and notice is issued for settlement of overdues (in excess of bank guarantee).

“In the case of Kingfisher Airlines, recovery suit has been filed in the Mumbai High Court for the overdues and also criminal proceedings for cheques issued by Kingfisher Airlines amounting to Rs 136.22 crore in 2012 which was dishonoured by the bank,” he noted.

INDIA: No Frills Carrier GoAir Offering Zero Fee Cancellation

Indian budget carrier GoAir has announced a limited time 'zero fee cancellation' offer for new bookings.

The offer is good for bookings made up to February 16 and any fees will be waived if tickets are cancelled at least 30 days before departure.

Free cancellation covers tickets booked for travel between June 1 and December 15, 2016, and can be cancelled only through the GoAir call centre.

Cancellations made less than 30 days before travel will be subject to the usual fees, the Mumbai based carrier said in a release.

The fee waiver is available on all the carrier's routes which includes Mumbai, Chennai, Delhi, Goa and Bengaluru.

INDIA: IndiGo Most Googled Airline By Indians In 2015; SpiceJet Is 2nd

Low-cost airline IndiGo was the most searched carrier on Google by Indians in 2015.

This was followed SpiceJet and SriLankan, according to a Google spokesperson.

Among the other most-searched airlines were Jet Airways, Air India, AirAsia, GoAir, Qatar Airways, Etihad, British Airways, Vistara, Cathay Pacific and United Airlines.

Full service carrier Vistara, a Tata-Singapore Airlines joint venture which commenced operations in January, did not make it to the top five.

The company has just started rolling out nationwide services. It recently added one more aircraft to its fleet, taking the total strength to nine.

Emirates, which has the highest frequency of flights among foreign airlines in India, was not among the top searched in 2015.

INDIA: India Fines Carriers $38mn For Manipulating Fuel Surcharge Fees

Jet Airways
Type Scheduled Carrier
Base Mumbai Int'l
Aircraft 100
Destinations 71
Routes 204
Daily Flights 579

The Competition Commission of India (CCI) has found three local carriers guilty of colluding to artificially manipulate Fuel Surcharge (FSC) fees relating to cargo and freight. The motion was brought on by a complaint filed by the Express Industry Council of India.

The CCI said in a statement that Jet Airways (India) Ltd. had been fined INR1.5 billion (USD22.69 million), IndiGo Airlines parent InterGlobe Aviation Limited INR637 million (USD9.64 million), and SpiceJet Ltd INR425 million (USD6.43 million) for contravening Section 3 of India's Competition Act, 2002 which deals with anticompetitive practices. The fines represent 1% of each carrier's average turnover for the last three financial years.

"The Commission noted that the Airlines acted in parallel in collusion in fixing FSC rates," it said. "Such conduct was found to have resulted in indirectly determining the rates of air cargo transport and thereby in contravention of the provisions of section 3(1) read with section 3(3)(a) of the Act."

Other carriers named in the investigation - Air India and GoAir - were found not guilty.

Air India was found not to have colluded with any other carrier while GoAir's policy of selling belly-hold space to third-party firms exonerated it of any blame given its lack of control over their pricing structures.