Adani Enterprises is planning to list its airport business — Adani Airport Holdings — by fiscal 2028, according to media reports that quoted Jugeshinder Singh, the group’s chief financial officer.
12.06.2024 - 07:55 / skift.com / Pieter Elbers / Bulbul Dhawan
Low-cost carrier IndiGo has introduced a new hotel booking option on its website and app. The airline said the aim of the integrated service is to allow passengers the convenience of a one-step solution.
In a statement, the airline said that the customers who choose to fly with IndiGo would be able to avail exclusive discounts over 700,000 properties across 250,000 destinations.
To develop and manage the hotel platform integrated with the flight platform, the airline has partnered with Vernost Marketing Services, a marketing partner of the Expedia group. Through this, IndiGo customers will be able to access Expedia’s hotel portfolio.
Not The First: IndiGo is not the first Indian airline to provide this integrated service of flight and hotel booking. Full service airline Vistara has a hotel booking platform powered by online travel agency Booking.com. The platform allows customers to earn 5 Club Vistara reward points for every INR 100 ($1.20) spent on the hotel booking.
Budget airline SpiceJet also has a Spice Vacations platform that allows customers to book hotels, flights, or flight and hotel combinations as required.
Expanding Operations: IndiGo is expanding its operations rapidly, while awaiting the launch of its business class later this year. IndiGo CEO Pieter Elbers wants to make the airline a global aviation player, he told Skift in an interview.
The company has been expanding its network extensively in the domestic as well as the international short-haul markets. It has also been expanding its codeshare partnerships, with the most recent one being a codeshare agreement with Japan Airlines.
The Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport in Mumbai has created infrastructure to expand its DigiYatra and non-DigiYatra facility to 68 e-gates. The number of landside e-gates at the airport has been increased from 24 to 68 to allow the airport to process nearly 7,500 passengers an hour at Terminal 2 and over 2,000 passengers an hour at Terminal 1.
“With the introduction of the digital gateway the wait times are reduced to under one minute at the kerbside,” a statement from the airport authorities said.
The airport is also working to deploy 118 e-gates at the Pre-embarkation Security Check (PESC) area at Terminal 2 to simplify passenger movement. The airport is also set to install artificial intelligence and machine learning-enabled cameras to enhance the security system at the airport’s kerbside.
According to data from the Airports Authority of India, Mumbai was the second busiest airport in India during the 2023-2024 financial year, after the Delhi airport. The Mumbai airport witnessed international traffic of over 14.3 million passengers, while for domestic passengers, this number
Adani Enterprises is planning to list its airport business — Adani Airport Holdings — by fiscal 2028, according to media reports that quoted Jugeshinder Singh, the group’s chief financial officer.
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