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karatecatman · Guest

Air Deccan has said that it aims to raise up to 30 per cent of its total revenues from ancillary streams in three years, a three-fold jump from the current levels, its Managing Director G R Gopinath has told NDTV.
Currently, ancillary revenues account for nine per cent of India’s second largest airline’s top-line. Gopinath said the net is a powerful engine of growth for us and it looks for more revenue from here. Company officials said 8.5 lakh people visit Air Deccan website every day.
Ancillary revenues are essentially categorised as non-passenger revenues which the company draws by way of inflight catering,excess baggage, selling of credit cards, aircraft branding,hotel bookings and things of that nature.
Officials said the airline, which currently operates 300-odd flights daily, would get into the travel insurance space shortly.
Gopinath said ancillary revenues have enabled the airline, which launched operations in August 2003, to bring down its losses,and their increase going forward would help it maintain ‘‘competitive’’ air fares. He termed ancillary revenues as ‘‘hedge against inflation.’’
Air Deccan said its website has emerged as India’s largest e-commerce site. The company’s call centre gets 24,000 calls every day.

But critics say the airline has still be post a profit.

COUGAR · Member Joined: 01 Jan 2007 Posts: 986 Location: Bangalore

Yeah right! Then mebbe they should start by ensuring their website works the way it is supposed to do!

I tired booking a fare to HYD yesterday and the damn Year drop-down kept resetting to 2008 no matter how many times i tried setting to 2007!

Like Air India, this is another airline run by stupid Mallus. And it shows! Thulasidas and Gopinathan are 2 sides of the same idotic coin!
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COUGAR · Member Joined: 01 Jan 2007 Posts: 986 Location: Bangalore

Well what else do you say for an airline which consistently over-priomises and under-delivers? They calim to want a certain percentage of revenues from net bookings and their website isnt even worked properly! Isnt there something weird here? That is why DN doesnt get my business!

AI is suffering from a similar problem: loads of tall calims and ambitious promises. But what we see is confused fleet planning showing up in the form of oddball 757's and 767's!
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avbuff · Member Joined: 22 Dec 2006 Posts: 5031

Well , I totally agree with you over here .... Very Happy

the_380 · Posted: Sun Feb 25, 2007 1:43 pm Post subject:

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VABBy · Member Joined: 19 Dec 2006 Posts: 823 Location: DEL

Tell me something?? Are these webfares cheaper than the ones offered by the travel agent. I have never booked thru a website. Always used a travel agent and they seem to always offer a fare which is lower than wat an airline quotes on their website.
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Nilanjon · Member Joined: 22 Dec 2006 Posts: 85 Location: Bangalore

Air Deccan is migrating their booking engine to the one which Go Air uses.

Supposedly developed by some Radixx International.

I find the Go Air website rather pathetic (I felt DN's was better than Go Air's).

I somehow feel this move is driven by Warwick Brady of Ryanair fame - and since he has done a lot to improve DN's profitability and bottomlines, it maybe making sense for DN to do this migration to a differnet booking engine.

Currently most of the info links do not work.

Will wait till tomorrow morning to see if the migration is for the better or worse Crying or Very sad

VABBy · Member Joined: 19 Dec 2006 Posts: 823 Location: DEL

Have they moved ???
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Nimish · Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2007 6:34 pm Post subject:

shivendrashukla · Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2007 9:22 pm Post subject:

DN is screwed big time if they don't clean their house now. No amount of adding fleet when after sometime the middle class, which by the way is the biggest socio-economic class, chooses not to fly DN.

Cheers
Shivendra

tayaramecanici · Member Joined: 03 Jan 2007 Posts: 648

COUGAR · Member Joined: 01 Jan 2007 Posts: 986 Location: Bangalore

Oh please TYM!

Getting in a new aircraft type when their 737-800's are being underutilized? Just doesnt cut it!
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haree · Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2007 10:57 am Post subject:

Nimish · Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2007 5:04 pm Post subject:

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Nilanjon · Member Joined: 22 Dec 2006 Posts: 85 Location: Bangalore

shivendrashukla · Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2007 8:11 pm Post subject:

the_380 · Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2007 8:49 pm Post subject:

Nimish · Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2007 10:50 am Post subject:

The good news is that their website came up yesterday evening and has been up ever since. Phew - that must have been a relief to their cash flows Very Happy

ABN397 · Member Joined: 27 Dec 2006 Posts: 113 Location: India

Well, the DN website was generally reliable in the past few years. Can't say the same about their punctuality-though morning flights are as punctual as those of most other airlines.

The Indian Railways booking website (irctc) was practically non-functional in the past few days-could be because they have changed the booking period from 60 days to 90 days on Mar 1. This may also have caused a lot of losses to them.

I also do a fair amount of train travel with bookings through this webiste. They have a "frequent traveller" scheme called Shubhyatra. My annual renewal fee was due in March. Whenever I tried to renew it in the last few weeks the payment failed (although regular bookings were generally OK). Perhaps this is their way of closing down an unprofitable venture Smile

Have done internet bookings by DN,IC, 9W and Spicejet and do not find a great difference in the experience.

Nilanjon · Member Joined: 22 Dec 2006 Posts: 85 Location: Bangalore

I agree that I too found DN's website quite reliable and comfortable in general, except for the days where they would announce opening of bookings for new months or new sectors, or their promotional Re. 1 , Rs. 2, Rs. 3, Rs. 7, Rs. 9 and Rs. 10 fares.

I've done a fair amount of bookings on DN's website, and the good thing about DN is that it does not pinch to cancel, and their Credit Card refund has always been very very prompt (I always got refunds the same or the next day).

The best website under heavy load is Spicejet's.

Go Air's booking engine is comfortable, but is even worse than Dn's under load (when they announce free tickets !!).

I used to find KF's earlier booking engine (from Bird Information Systems) also very simple to use. Paramount still uses it. Their present Sabre based booking engine of course is also good, but it's not fair to compare with others, since Sabre is in the business worldwide far too long !!

IC's is also very neat - I used it only once.

S2's online booking engine is the most unreliable.

the_380 · Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2007 5:49 pm Post subject:

shivendrashukla · Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2007 6:57 pm Post subject:

One drawback with most of the websites are that they do not support Mozilla firefox. I use firefox and i am unable to book DN, Go air and S2 tickets with them. Spicejet, 9W are IT work fine with firefox. I assume that if they are to provide good service, they must also take into account people who use different browsers (Firefox, Opera , Avant etc). May not hurt full carriers, but for LCC every small things count.

Cheers
Shivendra

Nilanjon · Member Joined: 22 Dec 2006 Posts: 85 Location: Bangalore

the_380 · Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2007 9:44 pm Post subject:

ABN397 · Member Joined: 27 Dec 2006 Posts: 113 Location: India

The DN website may be functional today, but many things are still in a mess. If you want to have some fun, get on to the site and look for the schedules. You will discover that the schedule shows a number of airports which no one has heard of Smile

karatecatman · Guest

Article on the profit-loss at Air Deccan:
http://dnaindia.com/report.asp?NewsID=1082816

Nimish · Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2007 3:42 pm Post subject: