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| Flight ticket booking via a website has been nothing | | | | Some airlines display the exact cost of each leg of a |
| short of a revolution in the travel industry. Normal 0 | | | | flight and various options/services available onboard. |
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| Introduced in India in 2004, online booking of air | | | | scheduled departure timing. |
| tickets has acted as a catalyst for the country's | | | | |
| aviation market. | | | | Online air ticket booking offers you the unique |
| | | | | benefit of checking in up to 24 hours before the |
| The increasing popularity of online flight booking has | | | | scheduled flight departure time. You can select your |
| prompted airlines to include this facility on their | | | | seat and print your boarding pass from the comfort |
| website. | | | | of your home or office. The benefit transcends to |
| | | | | time saved in serpentine queues at the airport. If you |
| For passengers opting for online flight ticket booking, | | | | have only carry-on luggage, you can directly make |
| certain airlines offer numerous benefits that set them | | | | your way to the airplane's gate with your boarding |
| apart from their competitors. Look out for the | | | | pass. Otherwise, you can get your bags checked at |
| following advantages when selecting an airline: | | | | a kiosk at the airport and skip the ticketing and |
| | | | | boarding pass lines. |
| Some airlines display a wide range of scheduling | | | | |
| options that would be difficult to obtain otherwise. | | | | Jet Airways, with the acquisition of JetLite and along |
| You can see exactly when each flight departs and | | | | with its Economy Class Jet Konnect service, today |
| arrives at its destination and its stopovers. | | | | has a combined fleet strength of 107 aircraft and |
| | | | | operates over 449 flights daily. Jet Airways was |
| With online booking, airlines save on overhead. Some | | | | awarded the Galileo Express Travelworld 'Best |
| of the airlines pass on these savings to their | | | | Domestic Full Service Airline' title in 2008. |
| passengers in the form of high discounts. | | | | |