Bangalore : Budget airlines are now introducing new flight services and schemes to either expand the aviation pie or wean away passengers from other players.

Almost all the no-frills airlines, except IndiGo, are going the whole hog to woo fliers with service offerings that are blurring the line between them and full service carriers such as Jet Airways, Kingfisher Airlines, Air India (domestic) and Paramount Airways.

MUMBAI-- Jet Airways (India) Ltd. said Monday it expects industry fares to go up in the peak travel season starting November though a return to profitability is still difficult for the airline.

"Yields show no signs of improving and so long as revenue for passengers is low, it will be difficult to come back to profitability," Saroj Datta, executive director of the private carrier, said on television channel CNBC TV18.

Subdued demand and better yields force them to maintain ticket prices

Bangalore/Mumbai: The last one-and-a-half months have seen three hikes in aviation turbine fuel (ATF) prices, adding up to 18%. But airlines haven’t hiked their fares.

New Delhi : Both travel agents and airlines have agreed recently to cut the transaction fee. While agents want to return to the old commission system under which they got Rs 5% of basic fare, airlines want the current fee Rs 350-500 for domestic and Rs 1,200-10,000 for each international ticket to be drastically reduced to reasonable levels. Whoever wins, the passenger will be paying much less booking charges.

Jet Airways, India’s premier international airline, will launch a new daily flight on the Hyderabad-Dubai sector, aboard a state-of-the-art Boeing 737-800 aircraft, effective August 16, 2009.

What started as a cost-cutting exercise, has become a movement with national carrier Air India (AI). Inspired by its savings of Rs 50 crore, the National Aviation Company of India Limited (NACIL) has decided to go green. It is soon going to launch a new flight plan system that will help it save up to Rs 80 crore annually on fuel.