<p>The discounted tickets need to be purchased on or before September 17 for travel till September 18. Soon after a five-day strike by pilots was called off on Sunday, Jet Airways reduced its fares by 50 per cent, forcing competitors to follow suit. <br /><br />The public sector Air India dropped its fares on seven sectors and on select flights. The fare on flights IC 803 and IC 506 Delhi-Bangalore and Bangalore-Delhi, respectively, is a flat Rs 3,229 each per ticket, according to an AI release.<br />Go Air, too, dropped charges. The fares for the Mumbai-Delhi route of GoAir has come down from Rs 2,400 to Rs 2,061 for travel during this week. <br /><br />One-way tickets on trunk routes such as Mumbai-Chennai and Mumbai-Bangalore are available in the range of Rs 1,900-2,100. Lean-hour travel in the afternoons is even cheaper at around Rs 1,800. <br /><br />But those who plan to travel after September 18 need not despair as fares will not go up. According to travel portals, a ticket on the Delhi-Bangalore route costs between Rs 3,053 and Rs 3,783 for travel on September 22 compared with Rs 2,390-Rs 3,074 on September 17, if booked on September 15 on budget airlines. <br /><br />As airline losses are mounting globally, the International Air Transport Association on Tuesday announced a revised financial forecast predicting airline losses at $11 billion in 2009.<br /></p>
<p>The discounted tickets need to be purchased on or before September 17 for travel till September 18. Soon after a five-day strike by pilots was called off on Sunday, Jet Airways reduced its fares by 50 per cent, forcing competitors to follow suit. <br /><br />The public sector Air India dropped its fares on seven sectors and on select flights. The fare on flights IC 803 and IC 506 Delhi-Bangalore and Bangalore-Delhi, respectively, is a flat Rs 3,229 each per ticket, according to an AI release.<br />Go Air, too, dropped charges. The fares for the Mumbai-Delhi route of GoAir has come down from Rs 2,400 to Rs 2,061 for travel during this week. <br /><br />One-way tickets on trunk routes such as Mumbai-Chennai and Mumbai-Bangalore are available in the range of Rs 1,900-2,100. Lean-hour travel in the afternoons is even cheaper at around Rs 1,800. <br /><br />But those who plan to travel after September 18 need not despair as fares will not go up. According to travel portals, a ticket on the Delhi-Bangalore route costs between Rs 3,053 and Rs 3,783 for travel on September 22 compared with Rs 2,390-Rs 3,074 on September 17, if booked on September 15 on budget airlines. <br /><br />As airline losses are mounting globally, the International Air Transport Association on Tuesday announced a revised financial forecast predicting airline losses at $11 billion in 2009.<br /></p>
