Air Deccan ties up with Travelguru

AIR Deccan has tied up with Travelguru to provide its passengers the option of a total budget travel package-flight and stay across 2, 500 hotels, including 1, 500 budget hotels in India. This partnership offers passengers the facility of making hotel reservations on the airline’s website. Close to one million passengers visit Air Deccan website daily. The travel portal plans to offer sightseeing, travel insurance and pre-paid taxi facilities soon.
Addressing a press conference here on Wednesday, Capt GR Gopinath, MD, Air Deccan said, “The Air Deccan-Travelguru tie-up will serve as the one-stop window for affordable travel solutions for the discerning traveler. This tie up will further add to our current ancillary revenue, which is around 9%. We are targeting ancillary revenue of 25-30% of the total revenue for the next three years. As this ancillary revenue goes up our basic fare will become more competitive.”
Ancillary revenue includes revenue from in-flight catering, in-flight shopping, excess baggage, aircraft branding and hotel reservations. The low-cost carrier expects to fly eight million passengers by end of this year.
courtesy:economictimes
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