The Maharaja Among the Low Cost Carriers

Indigo Airlines is one of the most prominent carriers in India. In the new crop of private aviation companies, there are few which can live up to Indigo in terms of value for money. The company provides a huge set of luxuries at a really affordable price.

The main hub of Indigo Airlines is at the Indira Gandhi International Airport in Delhi. The company is owned by Mr. Rahul Bhatia, a well known industrialist through InterGlobe Aviation Pvt. Ltd. The company started its operations on August 4, 2006. As can be easily understood, the signature color of Indigo Airlines is a deep indigo. Being a low frills carrier, the company provides the ability to buy food on board the flight and provides free of cost drinking water to all passengers.

Things have changed dramatically in air travel in the last few years as far as India is concerned. Once upon a time flying was possible only for privileged few but that scenario is now a thing of the past.

After tremendous growth of aviation sector in India from last couple of years, Indigo flights have become a special choice for non-metro cities. Now the low cost airliner's race is for fleet and service expansion to retain on the top on the airlines sector. Every airline is now making targeting non-metro cities. You can see aviation sector is flying off to the new high. There was huge investment in recent time on this sector.

Every budget airliner are on the queued to expand there fleet and the investment is worth billions of dollars. About 250 aircrafts orders are placed from most of the companies. Indigo Airlines is placed order of 100 Airbus A320 and this order was of worth $6 billion. Go Air has ordered 41 aircrafts.

If you are planning to travel during the Holiday Season then it is advisable to book the tickets in advance to avoid any kind of problems. The International flights fill up very quickly during this period. If the passengers book their tickets in advance then they get the best discount facilities on airline ticket.

The goal is to start service for the non-metro cities of India. After the minimizing the fare cost difference between the Railway AC class and Budget airlines, every people are making interest to move with the budget airliners. The reason is simple, saving of time and comfortable journey by paying few more, because non-metros are the very big market for these low cost carriers.

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