Will air travel in India ever become cheap again? Will typical Indian middle class families with noisy kids and neatly packed tiffin boxes of food be able to afford a plane ticket again? Just a few years back this was possible.
The thrifty train-traveling population of India that likes to pack homemade Poorie (oily form of bread) and Pickle to save money at restaurants could afford to fly to exotic destinations such as Goa at rail fare budgets.
The offerings were from low cost, no-frills airlines like Indigo, Go Air, Spice Jet and the erstwhile Air Deccan. If one got lucky online, the air fare could even be cheaper than the to and fro airport taxi expense.
Swarms of itinerant Indians clicked their way to the first airplane journeys of their lifetimes, a journey to be proudly displayed in personal albums or later Facebook alongside the obligatory shots in front of the magnificent Taj Mahal or the Qutub Minar. Full story...
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The thrifty train-traveling population of India that likes to pack homemade Poorie (oily form of bread) and Pickle to save money at restaurants could afford to fly to exotic destinations such as Goa at rail fare budgets.
The offerings were from low cost, no-frills airlines like Indigo, Go Air, Spice Jet and the erstwhile Air Deccan. If one got lucky online, the air fare could even be cheaper than the to and fro airport taxi expense.
Swarms of itinerant Indians clicked their way to the first airplane journeys of their lifetimes, a journey to be proudly displayed in personal albums or later Facebook alongside the obligatory shots in front of the magnificent Taj Mahal or the Qutub Minar. Full story...
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