Offering heavy discounts on air tickets for travel next year, budget carrier IndiGo has come up with a promotional offer where it is offering tickets from as low as Rs 999. (Source: Express Photo)

IndiGo offer: Offering heavy discounts on air tickets for travel next year, budget carrier IndiGo has come up with a promotional offer where it is offering tickets from as low as Rs 999. The above mentioned offer by IndiGo is open till December 25 and applicable on all travel between January 9, 2017 to April 15, 2017.

However, the company has not disclosed the total number of tickets on offer under the promotional scheme. The 999 offer, for example, is applicable on the Bengaluru-Hyderabad route. For other routes, fares on Jaipur-Pune start from Rs 2,317, Delhi-Guwahati from Rs 2,417, Delhi-Bengaluru from Rs 2,534 and Delhi-Goa from Rs 3,116.

Company’s arch rivals Jet Airways has also unveiled a similar offer, with tickets from Rs 990. For this Jet Airways offer which is applicable on travel on or after January 4, 2017, tickets must be purchased between December 20, 2016 to December 23, 2016.

Another budget carrier AirAsia India is selling all-inclusive tickets from Rs 917 under its special New Year Sale offer. AirAsia India’s offer is open till January 1, 2017, and is applicable on travel between March 1, 2017, and October 31, 2017.

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Even GoAir is offering discounted tickets starting from Rs 1,057 on select sectors. As per its website, the fares are applicable till December 31. The Rs 1,057 fare, for example, is applicable on the Delhi-Jaipur route and Delhi-Leh fares, under the GoAir offer, start from Rs 2,889.

Betting on the discounting tricks, airlines have successfully managed to pull up the growth in domestic air travel. A report by the aviation regulator DGCA says that the number of passengers carried by domestic airline has scaled up by 23 per cent to Rs 813.70 lakh during January to October in 2016.