New Delhi, Aug 29: After SpiceJet launched its festive season sale offering tickets at Rs 1,888, the newest entrant into the low-cost carrier space AirAsia India is offering promotional fares starting at Rs 600 on advance tickets booked until 31 August.
On its website, the airline is offering the promotional fares on tickets booked till 31 August to fly between 26 October, 2014 and 24 October, 2015.
As per the offer, one-way tickets from Bangalore to Chennai and Kochi will be available at Rs 600 and fares from Bangalore to Goa will be available at Rs 900.
On the Bangalore to Chandigarh and Jaipur routes fares start at Rs 1,900.
AirAsia India will start operations from 5 September to two new routes from Bangalore: Jaipur and Chandigarh. The airline, which is inducting the second aircraft in its fleet, will start daily flights from Bengaluru to Jaipur, Bengaluru to Chandigarh and vice versa.
However, it turns out that despite starting with just two flights the airline has managed to run up a loss of Rs 26 crore in just a month.
In a statement to the Malaysian stock exchange, the promoter of the airline has said that the airline incurred the loss in the month that it has been operational.
While AirAsia managed to get 80 percent occupancy when it began operations, it has since see the numbers fall to around 69 percent after rivals also launched additional flights on the routes it flies, reports . It will be hoping the new scheme helps it revive occupancy again.
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