India's budget airlines take wing (Asia Times Online)

A dozen or so budget airlines will launch in India over the next few months.

A couple are already flying and are proving very popular. For e.g. Air Deccan sells 5 seats per Delhi-Mumbai flight for the low-low price of Rs. 500 and has already sold these seats for the next 12 months.

They are learning from other budget carriers like Southwest (US) and RyanAir (Europe) and also from the mistakes of the private airlines that launched in the 90s but then failed to take off.