Domestic airlines don't want you to go to travel agents, and here's why you should listen to them
Advertisement
Advertisement
Mumbai-based Jet Airways, which India's second biggest airline by market share, is talking to cab aggregator Uber so that the two companies can club their services offered to mutual passengers. As per ET reports, if the talks go as desired, Jet Airways will be able to advance-book an Uber cab pickup and drop from and to the origin and destination airports. The customers would probably benefit by getting luxury car services at the rate of hatchbacks.
Similarly, Gurgaon-based budget carrier SpiceJet is in talks with MyTaxiIndia, and is also offering special discounts for students and senior citizens when tickets are booked from its website.
Vistara, on the other hand, which is a JV between Singapore Airlines and Tata Sons, is offering stay at Taj Hotels Resorts & Palaces to passengers booking tickets from its website.
The reason why airlines want passengers to book from their websites is that when travel agents are involved, it involves commissions and other charges, which are avoided in direct bookings through websites.
Advertisement
Image source
Advertisement
- US buys 81 Soviet-era combat aircraft from Russia's ally costing on average less than $20,000 each, report says
- 2 states where home prices are falling because there are too many houses and not enough buyers
- A couple accidentally shipped their cat in an Amazon return package. It arrived safely 6 days later, hundreds of miles away.
- Foreign tourist arrivals in India will cross pre-pandemic level in 2024
- Upcoming smartphones launching in India in May 2024
- Markets rebound in early trade amid global rally, buying in ICICI Bank and Reliance
- Women in Leadership
- Rupee declines 5 paise to 83.43 against US dollar in early trade
- JNK India IPO allotment date
- JioCinema New Plans
- Realme Narzo 70 Launched
- Apple Let Loose event
- Elon Musk Apology
- RIL cash flows
- Charlie Munger
- Feedbank IPO allotment
- Tata IPO allotment
- Most generous retirement plans
- Broadcom lays off
- Cibil Score vs Cibil Report
- Birla and Bajaj in top Richest
- Nestle Sept 2023 report
- India Equity Market