Good news: Air tickets as low as Rs 600

Here is some great news for folks living in Balgalore—AirAsia has announced airline tickets for as low as Rs 600.

AirAsia, the budget carrier in India, is offering promotional air tickets for certain routes. The airline presently operates presently between Bangalore, Kochi and Goa and will operate on northern routes within a month.

The airline is offering the promotional fares for tickets booked, before 31 August, on these routes. The travel time is between October 2014 and October 2015. Check the AirAsia website for more details.

Malaysia-based AirAsia already operates international routes into the Indian cities of Bangalore, Chennai, Kochi, Kolkata and Trichy as well. The carrier faces a tough battle to break into the Indian market, where no-frills carriers already dominate with a near 65 percent market share in the country of 1.2 billion people.

As per official reports, AirAsia's bottom fares have triggered a price war in an already competitive market. All but one of India's half-dozen airlines is haemorrhaging losses, worsened by high operating costs including for fuel.