New Delhi: The latest cheap fare scheme of airlines hides the fact that the number of discounted tickets are limited.
According to aviation experts, the bucket of seats with discounted price tags in each flight are few. “Airlines usually do not reveal how many seats are offered in each bucket and blame the unavailability of seats at low-price buckets on increased demands. But the fact is that the limited number of cheap tickets are used as advertisements to sell costlier buckets,” former Indian Airlines’ director Robin Pathak said.
A bucket is the number of seats available within a particular price band. Airlines start by selling the lowest-priced tickets and graduate to the costlier bucket once the seats are filled up. Usually a single bucket in a 150-180 seater aircraft does not have more than 20 seats. However, the number can vary, with fewer seats in the cheaper category and more in the costlier one and vice-versa.
Read News In Full 26/02/14 Karan Choudhury/The Telegraph
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