SpiceJet Launches SpiceJet Hotels

Monday, September 4th, 2006

We are happy to announce that SpiceJet has successfully launched SpiceJet Hotels an Online hotel reservation system for Indian Cities in a very short span of time. The portal enables a user to book hotel rooms in any city in India. The price shown in the search result is the final price and there are no surprises when taking the payment. Spicejet’s strong relationship with Yatra Online has enabled to acquire special rates and packages for accommodation.

“SpiceJet’s emphasis on technology and communication has enabled it along with its other collaborators to provide instant confirmation with reservation details along with a unique confirmation code. SpiceJet hotels provides comfort of reservation, 24 hours a day, keeping in mind the comfort of passengers’ computer availability and provides instant confirmation with the details of passenger’s reservation and confirmation number. Apart from SpiceJet customers any other person can also use these services for online hotel reservation by logging on to http://Hotels.SpiceJet.com
- Siddhanta Sharma, chairman SpiceJet

“Those making hotel reservations through this website could avail of discounts ranging from 15 to 30 percent depending upon the season, location and certain other factors.”
- Dhruv Shringi, co-founder, Yatra Online Pvt. Ltd.

The list of destinations for hotel reservations include Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Pune, Ahmedabad, Goa, Jammu, Katra, Varanasi and Srinagar.

We will be posting more updates soon.

Low fare airlines eye ancillary services

Wednesday, August 23rd, 2006

Indian low fare carriers like SpiceJet is looking to make an easy extra buck by starting ancillary services. Tying up with hotels and in-flight advertising are the focus areas right now. Indian low fare carriers like SpiceJet, Air Deccan and GoAir are looking to make an easy extra buck by starting ancillary services like hotel bookings, selling on flight insurance, and advertising space.
Currently, Indian no frills airlines earn an average about 5-6 per cent of their revenue from these activities compared to 17-18 per cent earned by international carriers like Easy Jet. Carriers like SpiceJet hope to increase that to 15-20 per cent by the end of next year.
Services like in-flight booking, catering and car rentals have been in operation for a while now, but carriers like GoAir and Kingfisher Airlines are thinking out of the box. They have started selling advertisement space on lockers and trays inside the aircraft, besides selling insurance and providing hotels to passengers.

Welcome to SpiceSoup!

Thursday, July 6th, 2006

I am delighted to introduce SpiceSoup, the official blog site of SpiceJet.

SpiceJet launched in May last year. This year has been a remarkable journey for all of us. Our reservation system opened for bookings on May 17, at 6:30 in the morning and, quite literally, the phone never stopped ringing. On that first day, SpiceJet set a unique world record of selling the largest number of tickets on the day of its launch.

The records have not ceased. In every month since our launch, SpiceJet has recorded the highest load factor of all airlines in India. At 99.6%, our flight completion record is the best in India. Our on time performance too, remains the best in the country. SpiceJet has also established the unique record of reaching the 1 million passenger mark in the fastest time of all airlines in India.

These records would not have been possible without your support. We rely on you, our customers, to give us advice, to point out our mistakes and to encourage us if you think we are doing something right.

Through SpiceSoup, we invite all of you to express your feelings about SpiceJet.

Ajay Singh,
Director,
SpiceJet Limited.