Mumbai: Its raining discounts on the busy Mumbai-Dubai route. Low cost airline IndiGo is offering return fares which are priced 20-25% lower than rivals kick starting a fare war on the route.
Mumbai-Dubai is the busiest international route from India with 91 weekly flights between the two cities and around 21, 000 seats on offer. It was the fourth busiest route from Dubai (behind London, Doha and Kuwait) in 2011. Delhi stood at ninth place.
Currently Emirates offers the highest capacity with 35 weekly flights and 11819 seats on Mumbai-Dubai route. Jet has four daily flights while IndiGo and SpiceJet have a flight each. IndiGo is adding its second daily flight on the route from March and has dropped fares is about 20-25% less than rivals.
30/01/13 Aneesh Phadnis/Business Standard
