subject: Hassle Free Travel With Low Airfares And Efficient Services [print this page] Low-cost airlines, also known as no frills airlines or budget airlines, offer lowest airfares tickets to the passengers by eliminating the usual comforts and expensive in-flight passenger services. Herb Kelleher was known to start the practice of low fare tickets for the Southwest Airlines in 1973. This business model resulted in high profits for Southwest Airlines and made it the fourth largest US airline in terms of domestic customers carried annually. Since the advent of the budget airlines In India, lot of carriers have been forced to introduce low airfares tickets due to severe competition as the no frills travel became quite popular among the passengers who used to generally travel by AC train coaches.
The aircrafts of these low cost airlines carry out their operations with a minimum set of equipment which results in reducing the operational costs and maintenance. This keeps the weight of the aircraft at a much lower level thus saving fuel which results in helping the airline to have the low airfares tickets. These airlines compensate for the low fares by having very limited free baggage options, usually have a single economy class seating for the passengers and offer paid meals and drinks and have no in-flight entertainment like the movies, satellite TV or radio. The low airfare tickets are possible by the reduction of agent commissions on tickets through the direct sale of tickets. The low cost airlines have the flight timings that are either early morning or late evening hours to avoid traffic congestion and pay low fees to the airport.
Several budget airlines like IndiGo, SpiceJet, JetLite and Air India Express are very popular among the Indian passengers for their low airfare tickets and efficient services. Most of these low cost airlines have the price policy for tickets that is very dynamic, with discounts and tickets in promotion. The advertised price is very low for the initial ten percent seats and generally does not include charges and taxes.
IndiGo airlines offer a simple fare scheme of low airfare tickets where the one-way tickets are charged half that of round-trips and having lowest fares that increase as the seats in the plane start filling up. Passengers can choose from buy-on-board, in-flight a la carte snack and meal options and pay for the products by cash or credit cards. One can book the low airfare tickets at the website www.goindigo.in or through a number of partner sites.
