SpiceJet to be the first airline in India to offer free on-board wifi

Among global carriers, JetBlue, Qatar Airways, Turkish Airlines provide wifi as free

Step aboard a low-cost airline and the amenities can be jarringly basic. To keep costs low, free snacks don’t exist and in-flight entertainment is no more than a magazine, half of which is full of advertisements.

How do you distract passengers from this painful minimalism? Well Wi-Fi, of course, a lesson learned by a small but growing group of no-frills carriers. For SpiceJet, it’s part of a bigger strategy to now grab market share from full-service airlines. The low-cost carrier will be the first in India to offer onboard wifi when it is cleared by the government- And it will not