SpiceJet's first anniversary offer — 21,000 seats at Rs99

24 May 2006

Mumbai: SpiceJet has decided to celebrate its first anniversary in a unique fashion - by offering 21,000 seats at Rs99 per seat by booking online on the SpiceJet website.

"We delighted with the confidence reposed in SpiceJet by such overwhelming number of customers," said Siddhanta Sharma, CEO, SpiceJet, making this announcement. "Last one year has been a great experience for us and we would like to share this excitement with our valued patrons. We are committed to providing value for money fares and stimulating the domestic market. Our expansion plan later this year will offer more destinations and increased flights."

In its one year of operations, SpiceJet carried over 1,600,000 passengers on its network and recorded the highest load factor of over 86 per cent since its launch, has achieved 99.5 per cent flight dispatch reliability and maintained over 90 per cent on-time performance.

SpiceJet is among the new low cost carriers offering exciting "everyday spicey fares" and friendly services to its travelers. SpiceJet operates 49 daily flights with its services between 11 cities of Delhi, Bombay, Ahmedabad, Goa, Pune, Bangalore, Kolkata, Jammu, Srinagar, Chennai and Hyderabad utilising modern B737-800 new generation aircraft with an all economy configuration of 189 seats.