Airlines India, Indian Airlines

Hughes Communications and Air Deccan have announced a tie up where by Hughes Communications will provide for online ticketing services across its 215 Hughes Net Fusion Centers in 105 cities. The move is aimed at penetrating into the small towns and cities.
Hughes Net Fusion is a Satellite based multi service superstore, which offer a number of applications and services to their customers. As the costs of air travel are coming down the airlines have been spreading their base with more and more customers joining it.
As per the management of the company eighty percent of their business comes from Tier II towns and cities and therefore this tie up will help making Air tickets more easily accessible to the public in these areas.

Further, the company has also joined hands with India times shopping, one of the leading website in India for online shopping. The duo shall offer exclusive shopping deals to their customers. Under this offer the customers buying airtickets from the website of the Air Deccan shall be entitled to get a free gift certificate worth Rs. 150 which can be redeemed by making purchases on indiatimes shopping.
Air Deccan is a low cost carrier and with increased competition from its arch rivals and new entrants, the airline has to come out with new and innovative ideas to increse its market share. The company is doing all that it can to sell more and more air tickets through various lucrative plans and making the airline approachable to common man.
With cost of air tickets coming down and easy affordability of air travel you can expect many more such offers from other airlines too.