IndiGo Airlines To Start International Flights From September

Online, June 21, 2011 (Newswire.com) - Budget travellers can now look forward to low cost carriers competing with each other through attractive deals to fly them abroad, especially to Gulf and Southeast Asia. India's largest LCC IndiGo will begin daily flights from Delhi to Dubai, Bangkok and Singapore this September. Mumbai will be connected to Bangkok and Dubai from October. Over next few days, it will launch Delhi-Kathmandu and Mumbai-Muscat flights too.

Except Air India Express that flies abroad mainly from the south, no other Indian LCC flies to places as distant as Singapore as JetLite currently goes only to Kathmandu and Colombo. Foreign LCCs like FlyDubai, Jazeera, Tiger Airways and Air Asia have long been the only options for Indian budget fliers going to the Gulf and Southeast Asia.

But with IndiGo planning to increase international frequencies and flights to newer destinations in coming months, the travel industry feels a fare war to lure passengers is inevitable. Firing the first shot, IndiGo will sell twenty five thousand seats to these destinations for an introductory all-inclusive fare of Rs ten thousand.