220,000 cheap air tickets going

It's raining low-fare seats this monsoon. Over 220,000 seats "" 25 per cent more than what is available in the busy season "" will be on offer at special fares for the next two months. The tickets will be priced in the range of Re 1 to Rs 1,774.

"Airlines are no more offering rigid fares. Since it is a lean season, airlines are offering special fares to woo passengers," said GR Gopinath, managing director of Air Deccan.

The airline, which operates 250 flights a day, takes the lion's share of 150,000 low-fare seats for the next two months. Air Deccan has just started booking for these special fare tickets under its Monsoon Hungama offer.

SpiceJet has also opened its Red Hot Special Monsoon fares in the Rs 99-499 range for 23,000 promotional seats. These will be available on 49 flights covering 12 cities.

SpiceJet CEO Siddhanta Sharma said: "Our anniversary offer of 21,000 promotional seats last month was sold out in just three hours. Booking for the new offer has already started."

GoAir is offering 50,000 tickets at fares starting from Rs 525 for flights between July and September.

GoAir executives said 10,000 such promotional tickets were sold off recently, within a few days.