The Hindu Business Line : Jetstar Asia offers Bangalore-S'pore one-way for Rs 6,000

The airline offers tickets through its Web site and passengers will have to pay for food and beverages apart from duty-free items made available on the flight.

Mr Neil Thompson (right), acting CEO, Jetstar Asia, and Mr Ankur Bhatia, Executive Director, The Bird Group, at a press conference in Bangalore on Monday. - G.R.N. Somashekar

Bangalore , Jan. 23

THE newest airline from Singapore, Jetstar Asia has sparked off a price war on the Bangalore-Singapore route offering one-way tickets for as low as Rs 6,000.

Jetstar Asia Chief Executive Officer, Mr Neil Thompson, told presspersons on Monday that the low-cost airline will fly five days a week to Bangalore except on Tuesdays and Fridays.

These fares are at least 20 per cent cheaper than those offered by other airlines.

"The prices for airfares between Bangalore and Singapore have been too high, for too long," Mr Thompson said.

The airline offers tickets through its Web site and passengers will have to pay for food and beverages apart from duty-free items made available on the flight.

The departure from Bangalore will be at 3.35 am and the flight will arrive at 10.25 am in Singapore the same morning. From Singapore, the departure is at 1.05 am and the flight arrives at Bangalore at 2.45 am the same day.

Jetstar Asia also has a flight to Kolkata and is looking at other cities in India to operate its flights. "We are looking at operating flights to cities in India which are 4-5 hours away from Singapore," Mr Thompson said.

He said as the airline was the first `value-for-money' carrier between southeast Asia and Bangalore, it was keen on tapping the growing SME (small and medium enterprise) business travellers and the tourist trade.

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