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Air Deccan is an airline based in Bangalore, India. It was India's first low-cost carrier, it is currently operating 300 flights to 59 destinations a day within India. Its main base is HAL Bangalore International Airport, with a secondary hub at Chennai International Airport, Chennai.
History
Air Deccan has grown rapidly since it first started air operations in August 2003, and despite its almost disastrous maiden inaugural flight (which caught fire), it has continued to grow.
On 25 January 2006, Air Deccan filed a Red Herring prospectus with the Securities and Exchange Board of India. Air Deccan plans to offload 25% of its stake in the IPO planned for late March or early April. 24.5 million equity shares of ten rupees each will be divested at a price to be announced later to raise Rs Cr ($250-300 million) The proceed from the IPO will be used to set up a training centre in Bangalore and a maintenance facility in Chennai. However, due to stock market downturn, Air Deccan's IPO barely managed to scrape through (after extending the issue closing date), but it was a flop on listing. Its shares were listed at a discount of about 50 per cent to the issue price of Rs 148.65-levels.
Although it has not yet been formally announced, Air Deccan has switched to U.S.-based airline reservations hosting service provider Radixx International (www.radixx.com) effective in late February, becoming the second major domestic Indian carrier to switch to the Radixx Air Enterprise system. The Air Deccan website currently states, "Air Deccan had migrated to an upgraded reservation system, on the 27 February 2007. This system aims at offering more efficient and User friendly services to our passengers..."
The company is owned by Deccan Aviation (98.4%) and Investec (1.96%).
Competitors
Air Deccan's phenomenal growth spurred the entry of more than half a dozen low-cost air carriers in India. Air Deccan faces stiff competition from SpiceJet, Indigo and GoAir. The growth of these low-cost air carriers has also forced mainstream Indian airliners like Indian Airlines, Jet Airways, Kingfisher Airlines, and Air Sahara to lower their fares. However, there is a lot of scope for the growth of the airline since the Indian air industry continues to remain largely under-penetrated. Moreover frequent delay and cancellation of Air Deccan flights is leading to customers going to other budget airlines, however this trend has been reversed lately with an improved on-time performance of more than 95% (till Dec 2006).
This is a list of airports served by Air Deccan.
Destinations
India
Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Port Blair
Andhra Pradesh
Hyderabad (Begumpet Airport)
Puttaparthi
Rajahmundry
Tirupati
Vijayawada
Visakhapatnam
Assam
Dibrugarh
Guwahati (Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi International Airport)
Silchar
Bihar
Patna
Chandigarh
Chhattisgarh
Raipur
Delhi (Indira Gandhi International Airport)
Goa (Dabolim Airport)
Gujarat
Ahmedabad (Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport)
Bhavnagar
Jamnagar
Kandla
Rajkot
Surat
Vadodara
Jammu and Kashmir
Jammu
Srinagar
Vaishno Devi
Jharkhand
Ranchi
Karnataka
Bangalore (HAL Bangalore International Airport) Hub
Belgaum (Belgaum Airport)
Bellary (Bellary Airport)
Hampi (Hampi Airport)
Hubli (Hubli Airport)
Mangalore (Mangalore International Airport)
Kerala
Kochi (Cochin International Airport)
Kozhikode (Calicut International Airport)
Thiruvananthapuram (Trivandrum International Airport)
Madhya Pradesh
Bhopal
Gwalior
Indore (Devi Ahilyabai Holkar Airport)
Jabalpur
Maharashtra
Aurangabad
Kolhapur
Mumbai (Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport)
Nagpur
Nasik
Pune
Mizoram
Aizawl
Orissa
Bhubaneswar
Punjab
Amritsar (Raja Sansi International Airport)
Pathankot
Rajasthan
Jaipur
Tamil Nadu
Chennai (Chennai International Airport)
Coimbatore
Madurai
Tiruchirapalli
Tuticorin
Tripura
Agartala
Uttarakhand
Dehradun
Uttar Pradesh
Kanpur
Lucknow (Amausi Airport)
West Bengal
Baghdogra (Bagdogra Airport)
Kolkata (Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose International Airport)
Website: http://www.flyairdeccan.net
Source: en.wikipedia.org
History
Air Deccan has grown rapidly since it first started air operations in August 2003, and despite its almost disastrous maiden inaugural flight (which caught fire), it has continued to grow.
On 25 January 2006, Air Deccan filed a Red Herring prospectus with the Securities and Exchange Board of India. Air Deccan plans to offload 25% of its stake in the IPO planned for late March or early April. 24.5 million equity shares of ten rupees each will be divested at a price to be announced later to raise Rs Cr ($250-300 million) The proceed from the IPO will be used to set up a training centre in Bangalore and a maintenance facility in Chennai. However, due to stock market downturn, Air Deccan's IPO barely managed to scrape through (after extending the issue closing date), but it was a flop on listing. Its shares were listed at a discount of about 50 per cent to the issue price of Rs 148.65-levels.
Although it has not yet been formally announced, Air Deccan has switched to U.S.-based airline reservations hosting service provider Radixx International (www.radixx.com) effective in late February, becoming the second major domestic Indian carrier to switch to the Radixx Air Enterprise system. The Air Deccan website currently states, "Air Deccan had migrated to an upgraded reservation system, on the 27 February 2007. This system aims at offering more efficient and User friendly services to our passengers..."
The company is owned by Deccan Aviation (98.4%) and Investec (1.96%).
Competitors
Air Deccan's phenomenal growth spurred the entry of more than half a dozen low-cost air carriers in India. Air Deccan faces stiff competition from SpiceJet, Indigo and GoAir. The growth of these low-cost air carriers has also forced mainstream Indian airliners like Indian Airlines, Jet Airways, Kingfisher Airlines, and Air Sahara to lower their fares. However, there is a lot of scope for the growth of the airline since the Indian air industry continues to remain largely under-penetrated. Moreover frequent delay and cancellation of Air Deccan flights is leading to customers going to other budget airlines, however this trend has been reversed lately with an improved on-time performance of more than 95% (till Dec 2006).
This is a list of airports served by Air Deccan.
Destinations
India
Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Port Blair
Andhra Pradesh
Hyderabad (Begumpet Airport)
Puttaparthi
Rajahmundry
Tirupati
Vijayawada
Visakhapatnam
Assam
Dibrugarh
Guwahati (Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi International Airport)
Silchar
Bihar
Patna
Chandigarh
Chhattisgarh
Raipur
Delhi (Indira Gandhi International Airport)
Goa (Dabolim Airport)
Gujarat
Ahmedabad (Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport)
Bhavnagar
Jamnagar
Kandla
Rajkot
Surat
Vadodara
Jammu and Kashmir
Jammu
Srinagar
Vaishno Devi
Jharkhand
Ranchi
Karnataka
Bangalore (HAL Bangalore International Airport) Hub
Belgaum (Belgaum Airport)
Bellary (Bellary Airport)
Hampi (Hampi Airport)
Hubli (Hubli Airport)
Mangalore (Mangalore International Airport)
Kerala
Kochi (Cochin International Airport)
Kozhikode (Calicut International Airport)
Thiruvananthapuram (Trivandrum International Airport)
Madhya Pradesh
Bhopal
Gwalior
Indore (Devi Ahilyabai Holkar Airport)
Jabalpur
Maharashtra
Aurangabad
Kolhapur
Mumbai (Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport)
Nagpur
Nasik
Pune
Mizoram
Aizawl
Orissa
Bhubaneswar
Punjab
Amritsar (Raja Sansi International Airport)
Pathankot
Rajasthan
Jaipur
Tamil Nadu
Chennai (Chennai International Airport)
Coimbatore
Madurai
Tiruchirapalli
Tuticorin
Tripura
Agartala
Uttarakhand
Dehradun
Uttar Pradesh
Kanpur
Lucknow (Amausi Airport)
West Bengal
Baghdogra (Bagdogra Airport)
Kolkata (Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose International Airport)
Website: http://www.flyairdeccan.net
Source: en.wikipedia.org
