Are cheap air tickets comming to a premature death?
@sachin_sachin (1544)
India
June 14, 2007 2:23am CST
The era of flying at the cost of a rail ticket may soon be a phenomenon of past for Indian travellers. After picking up Air Deccan, Kingfisher's Vijay Mallya is going for a price hike upto Rs.500-700 per ticket in addition to Rs.150 congestion charge(for flying in busy Delhi-Mumbai airspace) to make the Low Cost Airline (former?) turn profitable.
Similarly, JetLite(formerly Air Sahara)is also planning to operate on international routes and provide similar level of comfort as Jet Airways with single seating class configuration, thus forcing an inevitable price rise.
With rumours of premium carrier, Paramount Air acquiring LCC GoAir, the price war in Indian aviation industry would certainly abate in future and service reliability, comfort and on-time performance would be chief differentiators. But the price rise would take time as presently there is enough supply to meet the demands.
What do you think about it?
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2 responses
@pramodthakur (2365)
• India
14 Jun 07
It is not the cost of ticket which decides safe journey of a passenger. It is the safety system which is applied by any Air Company. If the safety, periodical check ups of flight, competent workforce, use of latest technology etc are proper then there remain no risk on travelling such flight which offers chip rate. I have seen many air crashes on discovery channel where world class company's are flying and it has crashed. Such companies claims that they are using latest technology, safety precautions etc even after that their airplane got crashed, why ? So it is not the cost of ticket of any airlines but it is the system they follow for safe journey.
@sachin_sachin (1544)
• India
14 Jun 07
Nobody is perfect and accidents do happen. Everyone wants to be safe . Do you think the airline you told who had accidents made them purposely? It was Fate.
@judyt00 (3496)
• Canada
14 Jun 07
Here in Canada, its still cheaper to fly than take a train or bus anywhere. It costs about $200 each way to fly between Calgary and Toronto or Ottawa,but costs $600 by train and $$450 to take the bus. and you have the added bonus of only travelling for less than 6 hours instead of nearly a week
