NEW DELHI: IndiGo has doubled the frequency of its Delhi-Istanbul flight which it launches on March 20. The airline had opened bookings for this route, with return fares starting at Rs 24,000. Possibly given the response \u2014 as the only other airline with a direct flight on this route is Turkish Airlines, a full-service carrier with significant fare difference \u2014 IndiGo will have a double daily on this route from March 25. Initially, Delhi-Istanbul was announced as a daily flight.
\nIndiGo is looking at several neighbouring countries where no Indian low-cost carrier flies to currently like mainland China, Russia and former Russian republics. It is also planning a one-stop Delhi-London by September. Asked why someone would prefer their single-aisle with no hot food or inflight entertainment on a long journey like to the UK, a senior official had said, \u201cFares, fares, fares.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
NEW DELHI: IndiGo has doubled the frequency of its Delhi-Istanbul flight which it launches on March 20. The airline had opened bookings for this route, with return fares starting at Rs 24,000. Possibly given the response \u2014 as the only other airline with a direct flight on this route is Turkish Airlines, a full-service carrier with significant fare difference \u2014 IndiGo will have a double daily on this route from March 25. Initially, Delhi-Istanbul was announced as a daily flight. IndiGo is looking at several neighbouring countries where no Indian low-cost carrier flies to currently like mainland China, Russia and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[220,130,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-262907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262907\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}