Increase in India-Gulf flights brings down fares

New Delhi: The high profitability of the route, growing business ties, and the constant movement of labour between India and the Gulf region is helping airlines from both sides to steadily increase the number of flights being operated, lower fares — and make money from the operations.
On the Bangalore-Dubai route, while Emirates is offering a return fare of Rs 15,100, on Kingfisher, a return fare costs around Rs 15,700.
On the other hand, a flight to the Gulf region is about 2-3 hours and the average fare is about Rs 12,000-14,000.
India-US flight is covered in about 17 hours with a fare of about Rs 40,000-45,000.
Kingfisher Airlines became the newest entrant starting a daily flight between Bangalore and Chennai from Thursday, while FlyDubai, a Dubai-based low-cost airline will begin services to three cities here including Coimbatore from July 15
FlyDubai, on the other hand has fares starting at Rs 4,700 including all taxes from Coimbatore to Dubai. The ticket price includes all taxes and one piece of hand baggage, weighing up to 10 kg a passenger.
26/06/09 Ashwini Phadnis/Business Line

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