LOW COST Airlines - Ready for Takeoff in India

A low-cost airline usually doesn't issue tickets in physical form to travellers. Travellers book their tickets online and get a booking number. They need to quote this number at check-in point and produce their identity card to get boarding pass. This reduces huge costs of printing and processing tickets. The low-cost airline does not issue common tickets for connecting flights. People have to book a separate ticket for each flight. No food or beverages are offered free to travelers. They have to buy food from the staff. This enables airlines to reduce the space allotted for storing food and add more seats in the space. Also, no magazines are offered free for entertainment. All the seats in an aircraft belong to the same class. There is no division called business class and economy class. The flight also does not have any lounge. Frequent travellers do not earn any points and the airline does not offer any special benefits to them. Moreover, low-cost airlines use secondary airports that allow them to avail lower landing and parking costs. They maintain same type of aircrafts in their fleet so as to minimize training (of pilots) and maintenance (of spares for different types of aircrafts) costs. The airlines seek to make additional revenue by printing advertisements on items like head-rest covers. The seat pitch (the distance between the headrest on one seat and the one on the seat in front, when both seats are inclined in the same angle) in low-cost airlines is less thus accommodating more seats in the aircraft. Different low-cost airlines have a different combination of the above mentioned features. Especially, the low-cost airlines launched by full service airlines to prevent customers from switching to other low-cost airlines have very few of these features.