[sadhuji]

Airlines are in tough competition and keep offering unbelievable fares to woo the travelers. The competition is not confined to low cost airlines but also to the ones firmly entrenched in the aviation business for ages. The latest example is that of the inaugural flight of Indian-Express from Kolkata to Singapore. The 180 seater Boeing-737 had only 28 passengers in the outbound flight and just 2 on the return flight. Each flight costs around 15 lakhs of rupees and the inaugural offer was at Rs 2000 each way per person. Still, there were no takers!

[Somerset]

sadhuji, on Oct 10 2007, 03:10 PM, said:

Airlines are in tough competition and keep offering unbelievable fares to woo the travelers. The competition is not confined to low cost airlines but also to the ones firmly entrenched in the aviation business for ages. The latest example is that of the inaugural flight of Indian-Express from Kolkata to Singapore. The 180 seater Boeing-737 had only 28 passengers in the outbound flight and just 2 on the return flight. Each flight costs around 15 lakhs of rupees and the inaugural offer was at Rs 2000 each way per person. Still, there were no takers!

Unbelievable!

[jyotirmoy]

May be because of slack season, Puja holidays start next week and people might have already finalised their trips. Was there adequate publicity?

[batistuta]

Most of these companies have a break-even Point and that may come many months after the Inagural launch  (Or may  come at all). Also, they must choose the sector properly too. For ex, The Nok air, the Budget airlines from Thai-airways, is doing quite well after they launched Rs10000, Blr-bkk-blr sector.