AirAsia Offers All-Inclusive Tickets From Rs. 1,099 On Advance Booking

AirAsia India is offering all-inclusive tickets starting from Rs. 1,099 to destinations including Bengaluru, Chandigarh, Goa, Hyderabad, Pune and Vizag. This AirAsia India scheme requires advance booking and fares are not available during embargo period, the carrier - which competes with the likes of Air India, IndiGo, SpiceJet and Jet Airways - said on its website. Bookings for the "cool fares" offer - which is applicable on travel from September 5 this year to February 8 next year - can be made till April 30, AirAsia India further said.

The lowest priced tickets, starting from Rs. 1,099, under the promotional scheme are available on the Bengaluru-Goa and Bengaluru-Hyderabad route. Some of the routes covered under the AirAsia India scheme include Kochi-Bengaluru, all-inclusive fares for which start from Rs. 1,299, Bengaluru-Pune (from Rs. 1,499), Srinagar-New Delhi (Rs. 1,699), Pune-Jaipur (Rs. 1,599) and Bengaluru-Guwahati (Rs. 2,899), as per the AirAsia website.

A search on the AirAsia India website showed that a few tickets were left at Rs. 1,100 for a flight from Hyderabad to Bengaluru on September 12, 2017.
25/04/17 Sandeep Singh/NDTV

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Lucky escape for passengers in India as planes flying 15 seconds apart avert mid-air collision

It was a lucky escape for hundreds of passengers in India as two airborne flights flying on the same route managed to avert a mid-air collision, over the city of Varanasi in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh.

The two Airbus A320s – one operated by AirAsia and the other by IndiGo Airlines – were roughly 15 seconds apart when some last-minute manoeuvring prevented the crash, sources told The Times of India.
An investigation has been launched by the Aircraft Accident Investigation Board into the incident and officers are trying to ascertain whether Air Traffic Control had warned the pilots of the planes that they were closing in on each other.

The paper reported on 20 April that the incident took place sometime last week and did not give the exact date. The Air Asia flight I5 768 was en route to capital New Delhi from Bagdogra – a small town in northeast India, while the IndiGo flight 6E 398 was heading to Bagdogra from New Delhi.

Sources told the paper that on entering Varanasi airspace, the Air Traffic Control office instructed the pilot of the AirAsia flight to descend to 34,000 feet and maintain its path, but the flight allegedly continued to descend below the assigned level. The aircraft reached 33,000 feet where the IndiGo aircraft was flying and the two aircrafts came as close as nine kilometres and were 15 seconds apart from each other.
20/04/17 Ananya Roy/IBTimes

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IndiGo flies high in the Gulf route

Mumbai: The airspace from India to the Gulf is getting increasingly crowded with call signs from IndiGo. The country's biggest carrier by market-share is quietly, but aggressively, expanding in a region that sends the biggest worker remittances, and acts as a hub for onward journey to Europe or the eastern water margin of the US.

And losing out in the bargain are rivals such as Air India Express and Jet AirwaysBSE 6.50 %, the latter reducing seat-capacity in flights to the Gulf, while the Gurgaon-based airline is doing just the reverse. IndiGo has increased its seat-capacity to the Gulf by 40% in the past one year. It now offers 26,460 weekly seats from India to Dubai, Doha, Sharjah and Muscat, the airline said.

Indigo has started flights connecting Chennai and Kozhikode with Muscat, Kozhikode and Thiruvananthapuram with Sharjah, and Mumbai and Delhi with Doha. Regulator Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has allowed Indigo to further increase seats, which can go up to 31,500 a week. That would mean a 66% jump in one year.

By contrast, Jet Airways has decreased its weekly capacity to the Middle-East by 14% to 51,100 seats between the last winter schedule and the ongoing summer schedule, said a source in the know. In the last few months, Jet has stopped flights connecting Bengaluru, Ahmedabad and Goa to Abu Dhabi. It has also withdrawn services connecting Mangalore and Kozhikode to Sharjah, and Thiruvananthapuram with Dubai, sources said.
20/04/17 Anirban Chowdhury/Economic Times

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