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Indian OTAs – Who is riding the traffic wave?

By sinha 5 Comments

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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23 Jul

News Roundup – iXiGO Claims 300 Crore Business for Airlines, MNP by December, Etislat-RCOM Tower Deal, ..and more

By sinha No comments

Etislat-RCOM Tower Deal Etislat (earlier acquired 45% stake in Swan Telecom for $900mn) has signed a 10 year old tower sharing deal with Reliance’s infrastructure arm, marking the deal size to Rs. 10,000 crores. Earlier, Telenor had signed a deal … Read More »

Etislat, India Business, india news, ixigo, mnp, myntra, telenor

01 Jun

ChalBabaChal – Travel Search Engine from Percept Knorigin [Just another?]

By sinha 1 Comment

Percept Knorigin has launched a travel search engine, ChalBabaChal that will enable travellers to look for cheapest flight tickets, trains and hotels 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 »

cleartrip, indian online travel industry, Indian travel Industry, ixigo, makemytrip, rang7

18 May

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

By sinha 5 Comments

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

Indian travel Industry, indigo, ixigo, kingfisher, rang7, spicejet

22 Apr

Quiz : Who acquired Tripmela?

By sinha 4 Comments

We conduct quiz on twitter (follow us) everyday @ 2 PM and the same enthusiasm has now percolated to pluGGd.in. So today’s quiz question – Who acquired Tripmela? To give you some context, Tripmela was a deal sourcing site and … Read More »

Indian travel Industry, ixigo, tripmela

17 Apr

PR: iXiGO.com to support international airlines’ move to zero commissions in India

By sinha No comments

iXiGO.com, India’s fastest growing travel site, today announced that it supported the move by international airlines to zero commissions for travel agents and that it will continue working strategically alongside airlines in growing their direct sales and reducing their distribution … Read More »

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24 Mar

iXiGo Founder, Aloke Bajpai on their Business Model, Future Plans, Funding experience, Entrepreneurship ..and more

By sinha 3 Comments

Recently, we asked you all on your favorite Indian travel website and iXiGo emerged the final winner (in total, 1027 votes were polled). Post poll, we decided to conduct a detailed interview with iXiGo team – ask them questions on … Read More »

Interview with Founders, ixigo, iXiGo Business Model

05 Mar