New Delhi/Mumbai, Sep.15 (ANI): All airlines have slashed their fares to 50 per cent till September 18.
The airlines have made this move in the wake of Jet airways announcing a 50 per cent discount in the economy class across on all of its domestic flights.
According to Keyur Joshi, COO and co-founder of MakeMyTrip, a travel portal, low-cost carrier GoAir on Monday dropped fares to match Jet fares.
On the Mumbai-Delhi route, GoAir normally charges Rs 2,400 (one way). The fare was cut to Rs 2,061 for travel during this week.
One-way tickets on trunk routes such as Mumbai-Chennai and Mumbai-Bangalore were available in the range of Rs 1,900-2,100. Lean-hour travel, in the afternoons, was even cheaper at around Rs 1,800.
Times Now quoted Ajay Prakash, General Secretary, Travel Agents Federation of India (TAFI), as saying that it was a knee jerk reaction to the the Jet Airways move.
Jet Airways had lost nearly Rs 60 crore worth of business to competition during the five-day impasse, had decided to slash economy ticket prices by a flat 50 per cent on its flagship airline as well as Jet Konnect flights for this week.
A Mumbai-based traveller buying a ticket between September 14 and 18 to New Delhi on Jet Airways will now have to pay only Rs 2,500 as against Rs 4,200. (ANI)
The airlines have made this move in the wake of Jet airways announcing a 50 per cent discount in the economy class across on all of its domestic flights.
According to Keyur Joshi, COO and co-founder of MakeMyTrip, a travel portal, low-cost carrier GoAir on Monday dropped fares to match Jet fares.
On the Mumbai-Delhi route, GoAir normally charges Rs 2,400 (one way). The fare was cut to Rs 2,061 for travel during this week.
One-way tickets on trunk routes such as Mumbai-Chennai and Mumbai-Bangalore were available in the range of Rs 1,900-2,100. Lean-hour travel, in the afternoons, was even cheaper at around Rs 1,800.
Times Now quoted Ajay Prakash, General Secretary, Travel Agents Federation of India (TAFI), as saying that it was a knee jerk reaction to the the Jet Airways move.
Jet Airways had lost nearly Rs 60 crore worth of business to competition during the five-day impasse, had decided to slash economy ticket prices by a flat 50 per cent on its flagship airline as well as Jet Konnect flights for this week.
A Mumbai-based traveller buying a ticket between September 14 and 18 to New Delhi on Jet Airways will now have to pay only Rs 2,500 as against Rs 4,200. (ANI)
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