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Indian travel Industry

08 Jul

IRCTC Tatkal Booking Solved Temporarily, Agents Banned

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IRCTC Tatkal Booking Solved Temporarily, Agents Banned

Indian railways is finally giving ears to the public grievances about the 8am-9am blackout. IRCTC has proposed a temporary solution to the tatkal tickets being sold out within minutes after bookings open. IRCTC will be implementing a time bound ban … Read More »

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18 Feb

OTA from Spicejet /Indigo and Kingfisher, Rang7 Shuts Down

By sinha 4 Comments

Rang7, the OTA from Spicejet, IndiGo and Kingfisher that was launched in the month of May, 2009 (on the lines of Orbitz) has been shutdown. The idea behind Rang7 was that these airlines will team up and reduce agency cost … Read More »

18 Aug

Indian OTAs – Who is riding the traffic wave?

By sinha 5 Comments
Indian OTAs – Who is riding the traffic wave?

So the consolidation in Indian OTA business has begun and what’s interesting is that post Travelguru acquisition, Travelocity will be an OTA as well as a search player (iXiGo powers Travelguru’s flight search). We believe there will be further consolidation … Read More »

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18 May

Indian OTAs on Airline’s decision to launch their Agency (Rang7)

By sinha 12 Comments

We earlier covered the launch of Rang7, OTA created by Kingfisher/Spicejet and Indigo airlines that will enable users to buy tickets directly from the site (and help airlines reduce agency/distribution cost). Though there are few concerns we had regarding domain … Read More »

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18 May

Rang7 – Confusion over the entity

By sinha 3 Comments

We earlier covered the launch of Rang7, the OTA from Spicejet, Indigo and Kingfisher. Contrary to the press release (which even had the quote from FIA secretary), one of the industry sources tell us that the airlines have decided to … Read More »

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18 May

Spicejet, IndiGo and Kingfisher partner to launch their online travel agency, Rang7

By sinha 5 Comments
Spicejet, IndiGo and Kingfisher partner to launch their online travel agency, Rang7

Spicejet, IndiGo and Kingfisher have partnered to launch their own OTA (online travel agency), Rang7 (will go live by May 3rd week). Teaming up will help them reduce agency cost (Indian carriers spend close to Rs. 200 Crore in distribution

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05 Mar

India’s most trusted travel website – Poll closes 2 PM. Vote now!

By sinha 29 Comments

975+ votes in the last few days! This is a gentle reminder to everybody – Poll closes at 2 PM (today) – so please vote for your favorite travel website  the one whom you trust the most. The poll is embedded … Read More »

27 Feb

Update on “India’s Most Trusted Travel site” poll

By sinha 6 Comments

800 votes so far!! Well, like I mentioned earlier, we extended the poll deadline and the poll ends on March 5th. Few details to keep in mind: Several of the travel companies have called/mailed me asking how to vote/poll etc … Read More »

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19 Feb

India’s Most Trusted Online Travel Site – Take the Poll

By sinha 306 Comments

So who do you trust the most? Cleartrip? iXIGo? MakemyTrip? Yatra? Well, take the poll! (embedded in the post, and is also available on the right sidebar of the site) [poll id="7"] Update: We haven’t included bus operators – the … Read More »

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