With the entry of low cost carriers into the airspace industry in India, air travel has become affordable nowadays for Indian people belonging to the middle class. Some years ago, the only affordable means of travel for the Indians was the train journey to cover longer distances; however, train journey consumes a lot of time.

The World Wide Web has played an important role in the revolution of air travel industry in India and most of the air travel companies rely on the internet for delivering tickets to the customers, which also acts as a cost-cutting technique for them. Almost, all the air travel companies these days have their own website, which enables their customers to compare prices and to check schedules. According to a survey conducted by VISA, it has been found that airline tickets are the hottest selling commodities in the country.

Not only airline companies enable the facility of booking tickets, directly from their own website, but they have also offered permission to some of the travel sites through which their customers can book tickets. The best thing about these travel sites is that most of them do not charge any fee for booking air ticket for a particular flight through their website. Another best thing about travel sites is that customers can compare between the charges of different airline companies, on the other hand, this is not possible, when booking through the website of the airline company itself. In addition, these sites also offer hotel-booking facilities with the help of which customers can book hotel rooms at their travel destination as well along with air tickets.

Recently, with the increasing competitions, some of these travel sites offer exclusive time-specific discounts to their customers, which enables the customers to get flight travel booking at substantially lower rate as compared to the price that they will have to pay when booking through the own website of the carrier. Names of top online travel companies that offer the best booking services to their customers are given below:

Top four online travel companies in India:

• Cleartrip

• Makemytrip

• Yatra

• Travelguru

Some of the details regarding these top online travel companies in India are given below:

Cleartrip:

Cleartrip.com is the travel site that offers the customers with what they need without any irritating fluff. Their website is free from blinking glitz, pop-ups and banners and therefore customers can just go to the site, search for availability of tickets on the day of their travel and can straight away book them. They offer hotel booking, train booking and of course flight booking service.

Makemytrip:

Makemytrip.com is a leading online travel portal that came into existence in the year 2000 with the objective of empowering Indian traveler with comprehensive choices and instant booking. They offer dedicated round the clock support and they are offering booking services for B2B, MICE, mobile, rail, bus, international holidays, holidays in India, hotels, international flights, flight + hotel deals and flights alone.

Yatra:

Yatra.com is operating from the city of Gurgaon and they offer booking facility, availability, pricing in international and domestic air travel. They offer other services like car rental booking, bus booking, holiday package booking, hotel booking and railway booking.

Travelguru:

Travelguru is a leading travel website in India that offers the best prices on holiday packages, hotels and flights all over India and in other countries as well. They can make planning and purchasing of holidays or business trips convenient and easier and they are currently offering services like cruises, vacation packages, hotel rooms and airline ticketing. They are planning to introduce several new services in the near future.

In addition to the above four travel portals, there are also other websites like Ezeego1, Via previously called as Flight Raja, Desiya.in, Ghumo, Arzoo, etc…