Airlines India, Indian Airlines

Go Air has tied up with Jammu & Kashmir Tourism Development Corporation to develop tourism in Jammu & Kashmir. The Mumbai based airline is looking at the potential tourist market of western India and wants to develop Jammu & Kashmir a hot tourist destination for its passengers. Recently Go Air had tied up with Goa Tourism Development Corporation to develop tourism in Goa, and it is in talks with tourism authorities of other states also.

J&KTDC has launched special packages to promote the common objective of the tie up. The packages are economically designed for the potential tourists. The winter packages include honeymoon packages for home market and skiing packages for domestic and foreign travelers. Most of the new private airlines are striking tieups and agreements with tourism authorities, hotels, international airlines, etc. to attract maximum passengers.

GoAir ties up with Goa Tourism Development Corporation Limited (GTDC) for development of tourism in Goa. The duo has developed a brand “GoGoa” for promotion of their proposed campaign. GoAir has announced the commencement of new flights to and from Goa. The airline has started flights from Delhi to Goa in october and they are planning to increase the frequency of flights between Mumbai and Goa.

The tieup offers GoAir passengers special rates at GTDC hotels, the special GoGoa packages will be deviced and sold by the duo through their existing network. The airline has deviced the tie up to tap the potential liesure travel passengers adding to their business travel customers. The airline is also in the process of designing such tieups in other states. GoAir is already the preferred airline of Kerala Tourism Development Corporation.

The airline is  trying all kinds of innovative plans to attract more and more new passengers. GoAir was the first airline to give away free tickets, they were the first to give home delivery of tickets, they allowed 30 kgs of checkin baggage for international travellers and many kind of special discounts. If the airline is able to strike tieups with more states, they may be able to increase their market share of tourist passengers.

GoAir and SBI have announced the launch of their new GoAir SBI credit card in association with Visa. The customers using the new card can avail discounts up to 10% on Goair air tickets. The new tieup has been planned in view of increased purchase of air tickets through credit cards and on the web sites of the airlines.

The card holders will get 4 reward points on every Rs. 100 spent on purchase of Goair tickets and these reward points can be redeemed against further purchases of Go air tickets. The card holder is also entitled to a discount of 10% on his first purchase of Go air ticket by using Goair SBI credit card on the Goair website. On the subsequent purchases on the website of the airline using the card a customer will get a discount of 5%. Besides this you get an accident insurance cover on Goair of Rs.24 million. And you have all other standard features of a credit card like conversion of purchases  in instalments, easy bill payment facility, balance transfer facility, 24 hour SBI card customer helpline and saving of transaction fee on fuel purchases at select IOC and IBP petrol pumps.

It’s that time of year again when consumers loosen their purse strings and companies go all out to woo them! CNBC-TV18 tracks the best options for holidaymakers.

An ideal vacation may not be a distant dream this festive season. With airlines going all out to increase load factors, tie-ups with hotels, travel agencies and travel sites are the order of the day.

Moreover, special discount fares, cash back schemes and lucky draws are just some of the incentives that airlines hope will help boost their numbers.

Low cost players like GoAir are bombarding passengers with offers like GoCrazy, which means you can get a ticket to any destination for as little as Rs 600.

Go is also offering 50,000 tickets for as low as Rs 525 to major tourist destinations around the country, and smart tickets, which means door-to-door delivery service free of any extra charge.

Competitors Spice and Indigo are giving tickets for Rs 499 onwards on all routes. In addition to the no frills onslaught, schedule airlines like Indian are vying for space with their overseas discount trump card, the Desh Videsh service.

So take a well-deserved break this festive season, go sightseeing, and fly back without the bills going through the roof.

Budget carrier GoAir has signed a USD 150 million deal with CFM, a joint venture between US aeroengine major General Electric and its French counterpart Snecma Moteurs for engines to power its to be acquire Airbus fleet of aircraft.

GoAir had earlier signed an agreement with Airbus to buy 10 A-320 aircraft with an option to buy another ten.

As per the deal, these aircraft would be powered by CFM56-5b engines, an airline release said here today.

Deliveries of these aircraft are scheduled to begin in mid-2007, the release added.