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Do justice to your Food while Flying: don't forget u r paying fortune for that.

2006-10-16T00:45:00.000-07:00

Friends, I recently traveled back to Gwalior & back. I went by Shatabdi and returned by SwaranJayanti It was truly an awesome experience. I had traveled after 4 years by Train but things have improved many folds.

Price difference in two trains was around 30%. Both the trains almost take equal no of traveling time.

You know why the difference was, one provides food and another one doesn't & the traveling time was approx 6 hours.

Same is the case with Airlines also, one is charging very high only because they are providing food while traveling.

Why this can't be left on the traveler to choose this option for buying food in- Flight or in- train, where in I'm forced to pay 30-40% more. Just providing food, tea and water, do they right to charge more on tickets?

Do we need food on board? Airlines who also provide food on flight are 30 to 40% costlier than low cost airlines

Traveling by Air to Short Distances, Fun or Pun?

2006-09-19T03:43:00.000-07:00

Hey guys !

Me back again. Thanks for sharing your wonderful encouraging views so far . Must be wondering what weird blogs I write most of the times. But, what can I do, I go through this everyday & I feel good when I share my concerns with you all. LOVE U ALL. Here I go again

Recently I read that Airlines are adding few more Destinations like Jaipur, Trichi, Indore & Guwahati.

Let’s take a situation of Jaipur - I stay at Delhi, if I go by road it will take so one-way or me around 5 hours.

Take another situation, where as I’m going by Flight,

Flying Time : 1 HRS
Reporting Time: 2 HR (before the flight, introduced recently earlier it was one hour)
Traveling Time: 1 hr (keeping the rush hour in mind)
Most of the Airports are in outskirts in such cities. Count Traveling time for that as well.

Forget about Air Traffic, delay flights, booking hassles and what not?

Is it really worth traveling by air to short destinations?

Is Low-Cost Honeymoon Over?

2006-06-27T02:40:00.000-07:00

I'm a freelance Journalist, trying to do some research on these "Low Cost Airlines". Read / Thouht a lot now finally decided to pen it down for reviws and comments from my bloggers friends.

The legacy carriers (IA, Jet, and Sahara) are finally hitting back at their high-flying start-up rivals in the Indian skies. After months of losing market share to the new low-cost entrants, the three legacy carriers - Indian Airlines, Jet Airways and Air Sahara - have finally witnessed a reversal in the new fiscal, with their combined market share in April 2006 reporting a slight growth to 66.7%. This April also marks the first time in 13 months that the group of four start-up airlines - Air Deccan, Kingfisher, SpiceJet and GoAir - have witnessed a drop in their combined market share at 33.3%.

The primary market received a big setback on Monday with low-cost carrier Deccan Aviation making dismal debuts on the stock markets. Taking a cue from the falling markets, share prices of this airline nosedived by as much as a third on Monday, resulting in huge losses for investors.

Tanu