Fly Air for Rs 599 : SpiceJet starts pre-summer booking

The website of SpiceJet Ltd, India’s second-largest low-fare airline, crashed hours when it launched its pre-summer sale on tuesday, that offered fares beginning at Rs.599 for all its non-stop flights across its domestic network between 1 March and 13 April.

“Sorry! Our on-line booking website is presently experiencing significant traffic. Please strive once more later,” the SpiceJet web site browse. The Spicejet android app was, however, working.

The airlines declared the sale on monday. The three-day sale launched on tuesday is meant to stay open until midnight, 25 Feb.

This flash sale is giving nearly 500th discount on tickets to stimulate demand for the lean season.

A typical Mumbai-Kochi unidirectional price tag was on the market when paying all charges at Rs.2,300 below the pre-summer sale against a standard fare of Rs.3,500-Rs.4,000 on lower buckets, in step with travel agents.

February to April is taken into account the lean season for domestic flying before the height of might to July once faculties shut for summer vacations.

India’s local airlines carried 81.09 million passengers in 2015, as against 67.38 million within the previous year, registering a growth of twenty.3%, due to low fares and a lot of flights.

Shilpa Bhatia, senior vice-president (commercial) at SpiceJet, aforementioned pre-summer sale is best suited to travellers preferring off-season trip save prices and avoid traveller rush.

“Tickets below this supply square measure refundable (only statutory taxes are going to be refunded) although modificationable with a change fee and fare distinction. there's restricted inventory below the supply, and seats are on the market on first-come-first-served basis,” the airline aforementioned.

SpiceJet operates 293 daily flights to forty destinations, together with thirty four domestic and 6 international ones.

Air travellers still get pleasure from reduced price tag prices as fares in india show there has been a notable decline over the past decade.

The current air fare is 66 lower than it had been in 2005, in step with a study released in Dec by International air transport Association, a lobby group that represents nearly 260 airlines, includes eighty three of global traffic.

Other airlines square measure expected to follow SpiceJet’s flash sales, travel agents say.