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With the advent of online flight reservation, flights booking in India increased dramatically, acting like catalyst in a market dominated by the state-owned carrier, Indian Airlines (now Indian). With the repealing of the Air Corporations Act of 1953, Jet Airways showed the way, gaining scheduled airline status in January 1994. This opened the door for a new breed of domestic airlines, such as Air Sahara, Damania, and many others. Online flight reservation – with its wide-reaching connectivity, speed, as well as reliability – enabled airlines and ticketing agents to better communicate, and connected the consumer directly with the airline. This allowed airlines to correctly assess the burgeoning demand for domestic air-travel, resulting in the offering a larger number of flights across more destinations in India, for both business and leisure travellers. Ticketing-booking and management software such as Abacus, and international organisations like International Air Transport Association (IATA), further accelerated the process, providing quick, direct and reliable booking of flight tickets across an array of airlines in the world.

At present, there are over 11 major domestic airlines in India, together providing a vast network of flights across hundreds of destinations in India at economical rates. These include full service airlines such as Air India (India’s national flag carrier), Indian (India’s domestic flag carrier), Jet Airways (market leader), Kingfisher Airlines (UB owned airlines), Jagson Airlines (Pioneer of Air Taxi operations), MDLR Airlines (quality regional air service) and Alliance Air (state-owned), as well as cheap airlines like Air Deccan (India’s first low-cost carrier), GoAir, IndiGo Airlines, JetLite (Jet Airways owned subsidiary), Spicejet Airlines, and Kingfisher Red (low cost subsidiary of Kingfisher Airlines).
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