New Delhi: The domestic air travel in India has all but become a 100% budget market, despite Jet Airways and Air India remaining full service carriers (FSCs).
According to the Centre for Asia Pacific Aviation (CAPA), fares of AI and Jet are 'close' to the fares offered by low cost carriers (LCCs).
"Domestic aviation has shifted to an almost 100% low fares market. While India's LCCs have a domestic market share of 63%, passengers flying on full service airlines (Air India and Jet) pay close to LCC fares in economy class. As a result, India is virtually a 100% low fares market," said CAPA.
In the April-June period of 2014, average fares for LCCs IndiGo and GoAir were in the range of Rs 5,000-5,200, with SpiceJet close to Rs 5000. "Jet Airways' average fare was Rs 5,632, but this includes the contribution of the premium cabin, suggesting that its average economy class fare was closer to that of the LCCs... the regulator also identified a number of routes where FSC fares were below LCCs... Overall, there is very little difference between LCC and FSC economy class fares," says CAPA.
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