Spicejet Coupons and Offers

Spicejet - Flying for Everyone

Spicejet operates in India’s airline industry, which is on a high-growth trajectory. Given the high number of travellers India has, it is set to become the third-largest aviation market by 2020 and the largest by 2030. It is currently the ninth-largest civil aviation market in the world, with a market size of around US$ 16 billion.

Significantly, in January 2016, domestic air passenger traffic rose 23 per cent to 7.66 million from 6.25 million during the same month of last year. Passenger traffic during the January-December 2015 increased at a rate of 20.3 per cent to 81.1 million from 67.4 million in the corresponding period a year ago. This reflects the trajectory of growth in the Indian airline sector.

As India recently eased rules for foreign investment in the country's aviation sector with the objective of boosting air travel and developing new airports, significant interest is being shown by foreign airlines in the Indian space.

SpiceJet is a low-cost airline headquartered in Gurgaon, India. It is the fourth largest airline in the country by number of passengers carried, with a market share of 13.1% as of February 2016. The airline operates 306 daily flights to 41 destinations, including 35 Indian and 6 international destinations from its hubs at Delhi and Hyderabad.  Spice Jet being a low cost airline has been offering low cost air tickets. Established as air taxi provider ModiLuft in 1984, the company was acquired by Indian entrepreneur Ajay Singh in 2004 and re-christened as SpiceJet. The airline operated its first flight in May 2005. Indian media baron Kalanidhi Maran acquired a controlling stake in SpiceJet in June 2010 through Sun Group which was sold back to Ajay Singh in January 2015. The airline operates a fleet of Boeing 737 and Bombardier Dash aircraft.

The origins of SpiceJet can be tracked back to March 1984 when the company was established by Indian Industrialist S. K. Modi to provide private air taxi services. On 17 February 1993, the company was named as MG Express and entered into technical partnership with the German flag carrier Lufthansa. The airline provided passenger and cargo services under the name of Modiluft before ceasing operations in 1996.

Inception and expansion: In 2004, the company was acquired by Ajay Singh and the airline planned to restart operations as SpiceJet following the low-cost model. SpiceJet leased two Boeing 737-800 aircraft in 2005 and planned to order 10 new aircraft for expansion. SpiceJet opened bookings on 18 May 2005 and the first flight was operated between Delhi and Mumbai on 24 May 2005.

Corporate affairs and identity SpiceJet is headquartered in Gurgaon, India. Ajay Singh serves as the Managing Director of the airline since January 2015. The airline's logo consists of 15 dots arranged in three rows of five each in the order of their reducing sizes on a red background. In June 2015, the airline unveiled its current logo with a new tagline Red. Hot. Spicy. SpiceJet names all its aircraft with the name of an Indian spice.

Destinations: SpiceJet operates 306 flights daily to 35 Indian and 6 international destinations. It operates hubs at Delhi and Hyderabad, which is the primary base for its fleet of Bombardier Q400 aircraft. After completing five years of flying, SpiceJet was allowed to commence international flights by Directorate General of Civil Aviation on 7 September 2010. SpiceJet launched flights from Delhi to Kathmandu and Chennai to Colombo and the first international flight took off on 7 October 2010 from Delhi.

Fleet The airline operates the SpiceJet Boeing 737-800 SpiceJet Boeing 737-900ER SpiceJet Bombardier Q400 SpiceJet fleet Aircraft. SpiceJet announced that it would take the delivery of ten more aircraft during the year, of which seven would be the Bombardier Q400.

Services Being a low-cost carrier spice jet low cost air tickets are the added points for the attraction of its customers.  SpiceJet offers only economy class seating accommodating 186 passengers per aircraft. Being a low cost carrier spice jet has not kept the option of complementary meals. For the option of food SpiceJet offers buy-on board in-flight meal programme. SpiceJet does not operate any frequent-flyer programme and do not provide any in-flight entertainment options. The SpiceJet offers premium services under the name Spice Add-ons. SpiceJet offers additional benefits like a pre-assigned seat, priority baggage handling and priority check-in at a higher fare. The online booking of the SpiceJet domestic & international flights booking can be done accessing the website www.spicejet.com in very easy steps. SpiceJet offers special discounts on special occasions and launches various SpiceJet offers which enables the Spicejet domestic or International flight booking at very reasonable discounted cost. SpiceJet coupon codes can be applied and the booking can be done in simple and easy steps.

Frequently Asked Questions

Q. What are the excess baggage charges in Spicejet?

A. Excess baggage will be charged at 100/- per Kg from 16 KG – 20 Kg and Rs 300/- per kg beyond 20 Kg for each onway journey.

Q. If a customer has a weapon, can he carry in the flight?

A. Yes, he can do so, but a fee of Rs 5000/- has to be paid. Each passenger is allowed to carry 1 licensed weapon and not more than 50 live cartridges or as mentioned in passenger’s license whichever is less.

Q. Who all are exempted from weapon fees?

A. Serving personal of defence forces, paramilitary forces and police if travelling on official duty and carrying official movement order. Sportsmen travelling for a competition if he has valid identity, valid license of arms and certificate from the president of the sports club sponsoring him.