Air Deccan enhances seat capacity

Low cost airliner Air Deccan on Friday announced enhancement of its seat capacity for southern travellers to meet the growing demand. The airline in a release said it had replaced its 72 seater ATR 72 with a brand new 180 seater Air Bus 320 on its existing Chennai-Madurai and Chennai Coimbatore sectors. It has also introduced an additional ATR 72 flight from Chennai to Thiruvananthapuram in the evening making it convenient for business travellers seeking day return flights. Air Deccan has on offer more than 2.5 lakh seats per month in South India alone and leads the market with 40 per cent share in terms of seats offered in the region.

Air Deccan CEO, Ramki Sundaram said, "Air Deccan has led the low cost revolution in India, which has resulted in remarkable growth not only in leisure but business travel as well. With time being a premium, corporate travellers to small businessmen and SMEs have all switched from trains to low cost air travel." Cities of the past like Trivandrum, Madurai and Coimbatore are becoming cities of the future. They are developing into modern cities with big IT and corporate companies setting up infrastructure. Our flights, at affordable fares, are being sought after by leisure as well as business travellers on these routes, he added.

He said Air Deccan offered the largest seat inventory among all airlines in the south connecting as many as 19 destinations."Our constant thrust is on providing the best connectivity across India, coupled with on-time and reliable performance. We fly close to 3,000 flights a month within south and in June 2007 more than 2,800 flights were on-time within one hour and approximately 2,500 flights were on-time within 15 minutes" he informed.

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