Flights Operating During The Festivities Of Ladakh Festival 2013

The time of Ladakh festival, which is September 20 to 26 every year, is probably the best time to explore this place. You can get to know about the cultural richness of the place as well as get the sightseeing opportunities to witness the glory of its many monasteries and other architectures. Check out this video to know about the destinations which are usually covered in a Leh ladakh tour package.

Flights to Leh- Ladakh

Leh and Ladakh have been tremendously popular as a favored tourist destination for the Indians as well as foreigners. While the people have been more than willing to explore the newer destinations having inhospitable weather, this endeavor has also been aided by the ease of access to these terrains. Leh and Ladakh can be approach via road but there are no railways in this part of the country. Via road, this can be approached through the Manali-Leh and the Srinagar-Leh routes.

However, there has also been an air-based connectivity between these places and a few other cities of the country. The leading airlines of India operate daily and weekly flights to these destinations. Leh has a civilian airport which is named as Kushok Bakula Rimpochee Airport. Ladakh does not have a civilian airport but two military air strips are present at Daulat Beg Oldie and Fukche.

Air India operates 2 daily flights from Delhi to Leh on Friday and Saturday and 1 daily flight on other days of the week.  From Jammu to Leh, there is 1 flight on Friday and Monday. From Srinagar to Leh there is only 1 weekly flight which operates on Wednesday.

Jet Airways operates 1 flight daily from Delhi to Leh from Monday to Friday and 2 flights on Sunday. However, it does not operate any flight on Saturdays.

GoAir also operates 2 daily non-stop flights from Delhi to Leh.

Enjoy in Goa with Friends or Family with Goa Holiday Packages

Nothing can beat a holiday with friends in Goa. Religious places, historical structures, pristine beaches, water sports, mouth-watering food, cruises and nightlife, Goa offers a lot to its visitors. One of the famous historical structures in this state is Fort Aguada that is situated alongside the Sinquerim Beach. A visit to this fort, which holds a significant part in the history of Goa, is a must for tourists. You can book your Goa Holiday packages with various travel agencies or travel websites to get some good deals.

History and Structure

In the year 1613, Fort Aguada was built by the Portuguese to guard the Bardez sub-district against the Marathas and the Dutch. There is a freshwater spring inside the fort that supplied water to ships that stopped by this fort. Also, there is a four-storey lighthouse, which was constructed in 1864, but was later abandoned in 1976. Another important part of this fort is its grandstand of 79 cannons that was built in 1612. The capacity of this grandstand is 2,376,000 gallons of water. The fort is divided into two parts, where the upper segment acted as the fort and water station while the lower segment served as a safe berth for Portuguese ships.

Goan Holiday

You can choose to come to Goa on your own; however, if you have a tight schedule, then you can go for various Goa tour packages. Some of the leading travel websites offer great package deals at discounted prices, and you can zero in on the one that fits your bill. Since package tours to Goa are always in demand, and it is one of the top tour packages in India, you need to make your bookings in advance. So, choose a package and come to Goa to have a gala time here with your family or friends.

Witness Natural Beauty Like Never Before with Kashmir Tour Packages

The picturesque landscape of Kashmir allures tourists all across the year, making it one of the top tourists destinations in India. Boasting of scenic natural beauty, high mountains, pristine lakes and beautiful gardens, Kashmir is truly the heaven on earth. One such beautiful natural attraction of Kashmir is Dal Lake in Srinagar. It is the second largest and one of the most splendid lakes in the state. A holiday trip to the Kashmir valley can be memorable as well as exciting, and if you wish to come here, then you can go for various Kashmir tour packages.

Dal Lake

Known as the jewel of Srinagar, Dal Lake is a picturesque lake that spreads across an area of 26 sq. km. Set against the backdrop of the Himalayan mountain peaks, this lake is one of the prominent highlights of the state. This lake is famous for its shikara (wooden boat) rides and houseboats. If you come to Dal Lake, then make sure that you take ferry rides to the houseboats, and then enjoy the houseboat rides across the lake while witnessing the mighty Himalayas. Besides these rides, you can also indulge in various water sports such as canoeing, swimming, surfing and kayaking in the lake. Since most Kashmir packages include a trip to Dal Lake, you can plan to spend a decent amount of time here. 

Kashmir Tour

If you wish to holiday in the Kashmir Valley, then ensure you have enough time in your hand to visit all major attractions here. Since, a tour to Kashmir is one of the top Indian tour packages, it is better to book a Kashmir package in advance. The tour package will essentially include accommodation, travel and food facilities. However, if you wish for more services, then you can speak to tour package agencies beforehand for them to make necessary arrangements.

Hotels in Tirupati- Close to Temple of Lord Venkateshwara

Greater Air Turbulence Above Atlantic Will Make Cheap Air Tickets Pricier By Mid-Century

A recent study, and the first of its kind, has examined the role of air turbulence over the Atlantic Ocean in altering the flight patterns of cross-Atlantic region. This region sees daily 600 international flights to and from America and Europe. The scope of study focused on these flights and examined that given the current changes in weather patterns, especially of the winds and turbulences, how will the aviation be impacted in mid-century.

Study finds that Indians Value Punctuality Over Cheap Flights

Market research on consumer behavior and noticing the associated patterns of changes makes it possible to dispel the old beliefs and effect suitable changes in the strategies of business. One such recent study conducted by the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, has dispelled the old notion related to the Indian aviation that it is a price sensitive market and it is essentially by maintaining the lowest air fare of the tickets that the airlines are able to garner more of market share and customer loyalty.

Spic(e)y Discounts On Indian Skies

It seems that Spicejet is the main driver of the discounted flights in the Indian aviation market. It brings up one heart-warming offer of cheap air tickets and the others are left with no option but to follow the suit. This happened in May, 2012 last year when it cut down its prices to abysmally low levels on the occasion of its birth anniversary. Again this time in January, it has now come up with a new exciting offer for travelling anywhere in the domestic sector at the rate of Rs 2013 for travelling from February 1 to April 30, 2013.

“All-in” air fares made mandatory to exhibit for the airlines

Surprised that the cheap ticket fares that you saw in advertisements are actually not so! Well, if you are flying on Canadian airlines then you will not be surprised anymore. The airlines regulators have made it mandatory for the airlines to exhibit the actual prices of tickets on all types of advertisements such as print advertising, billboards and the online advertisements. Earlier, it was quite a common practice, and is still so in many other industries and countries of the world, to have different prices of flight booking on the marketing materials than the actual costs for the sake of attracting the customers. There was the invariable sign of some special character on the advertised prices which indicated that the prices is subject to certain conditions and might include or exclude a number of other charges.

Ottawa has begun this process of change since the marketing materials will now feature the prices which the customers will actually have to pay if they book the supposedly cheap international flights to destinations. The ticket prices exhibited will now include all the taxes, fees and other charges such as airport development fee, etc. so as to enable the customers to know which airlines is offering what all prices upfront without having to run through the process of flight booking to find the true prices.

The move will usher in more transparency in the advertisements and will prevent people being taken to a ride by the airlines or the agencies. It often used to happen that the customers got to realize at the fag-end of their flight booking exercise that there are more charges to be paid for. This left them with two options, either to abandon the online booking at that site or to pay the price for completing the booking, though with a bad taste.

How are interline agreements for air ticket booking are different from the code share agreements?

You must have heard of the code share agreements between the airlines. As a result of these agreements amongst the airlines, you do air ticket booking on one flight but are flown on the other airline, which might surprise you when you take the boarding pass. The code share agreements are quite common among the airlines. These give the benefits of extended market reach and better seat factors to the airlines. However, the interline agreements are relatively rare as compared to code-share ones. Both these types of flights can have flight numbers different from the one of primary airline. But, there are some basic differences between the two.

In case of the code share flights between the source and the destination in a multiple-leg trip, the flight number of each airline with passengers is different. But, in a similar situation, the interline agreement provides the same flight number for all the airlines.

Another major difference between the two is that the code share agreements allow for honoring the frequent flyers programs of airline on which cheap flight tickets are booked with the code-share partner carriers. So, when you are flying on the code share flight, your miles will keep on getting aggregating. Further, you can redeem these points on these carriers as well. But, in case of interline agreements, the rewards programs of booking airline are not honored for those segments of journey whose flights do not have code share agreement with one another.

Yet another difference is with respect to the baggage which needs to be checked-in. In case of code-share agreements, the baggage needs to be checked-in at each segment of flight since these are treated as separate flights. However, in case of the interline agreement, the baggage follows you wherever you go obviating the need for checking-in all the time.

Seat shortages in Indian Aviation Market

There is a handful of domestic airlines and you can count them on fingers: IndiGo, Spicejet, Jet Airways, Go Air and Air India. Together there airlines offer close to 2 lakh seats every day to the passengers. In a country, where the percentage of population travelling by air is not even 1 percent, these number of seats are still very less. So, this fact is sealed that there is indeed a shortage of seats, especially since the Kingfisher Airlines has been grounded. Add to it the persistent problems at the Air India and even these seats become susceptible to availability.

Out of these airlines, it is only Air India and, to some extent, Jet Airways which provide the medium and long haul flights. Since these are the full service carriers, these carriers do not provide the cheap international flights. So, if you have to travel to the destinations beyond Singapore on west and the United Arab Emirates on the East, you do not have many options in terms of carriers flying on these segments. So, besides the shortage of seats in the domestic market, there is also a shortage of seats on the short and long haul flights on the domestic carriers. Well, the foreign carriers do fill that slot but these might not offer as much cheap air tickets as the domestic ones. 

Besides the absolute seat shortages on the domestic and international flights, there are also shortages in the class-wise segments. While the no-frill service providers are filling the ever increasing demand of the cheap air tickets of the economy class travel, there is acute shortage of the business class seats for the people who want to use more comfortable travel options on all routes.

These shortages are the prime reasons for the prices of the air tickets shooting the roof, stoking the fears of cartelization of air fares by the domestic carriers.