Chennai: SpiceJet sold two lakh tickets on Friday as it offered a consolidated Rs. 2,013 fare, including all taxes, on its routes from February to April 31.
SpiceJet announced on Friday that one million one-way tickets were available from yesterday till Sunday for Rs. 2,013 on all the domestic routes it flew.
The current fares of the airlines on the New Delhi-Mumbai or New Delhi-Howrah would be less than an AC-II or AC–Ist class railway journey.
India’s largest low-cost airline, IndiGo reduced its fares on routes like Mumbai-Delhi, Mumbai-Bangalore to Rs 2,000 for February. IndiGo maintained that the reduction was in line with the market.
The reduction by SpiceJet fare is 50-60 per cent lower than the normal average price and accounts for 20% of its three-month sales. SpiceJet sells around 45000 seats a day.
12/01/13 Ayyappa Prasad/TruthDive
