Deccan to give free tickets if flight delayed beyond three hours

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Bangalore: Air Deccan will launch its ‘Wow’ campaign from September 19 and offer to put up passengers on a Jet Airways flight or any of its partner airlines if any of its flights is delayed beyond three hours. Alternatively, if the passenger is still not able to fly to his/her destination, a free ticket on its flight will be offered to them.
Announcing this new scheme to reporters on Saturday, Air Deccan managing director Captain G R Gopinath and Chief Operating Officer Warwick Brady said that the airline has now brought down the delays in flights and cancellations considerably.
The current on time performance within 15 minutes from scheduled departure is between 75 per cent to 80 per cent, and within 60 minutes is over 98 per cent. We want to improve this further. Air Deccan has tied up with Lufthansa German Airlines for Airbus spare parts stock. Simultaneously, Air Deccan has signed a three million dollar deal with Airbus to station Airbus engineers at various bases in India and train Air Deccan engineers and a two million dollar deal with ATR for a similar arrangement. Air Deccan will soon launch services into Kulu, Bellary and Salem among other places.