It's not easy to book a flight online when an airline's website isn't working. It's now 20 minutes since I navigated to Kingfisher Airline's url, and I'm still getting the message "Transferring data from www.flykingfisher.com". Perhaps the web hosting company have been consuming too much of Kingfisher's other product, and have fallen asleep.
We carry out a lot of price comparisons on this site and looking back at our records, it is astonishing how often Kingfisher's website isn't working:
Survey Date |
Flight route |
Airlines with websites working |
Airlines whose website were down |
17 Feb 2008 |
Delhi to Chennai |
Air India, Deccan, Go Air, Indigo, Jet, Jetlite, Spicejet |
Kingfisher |
6 Jan 2008 |
Delhi to Chennai |
Air India, Deccan, Go Air, Indigo, Jet, Jetlite, Spicejet |
Air India |
30 Dec 2007 |
Mumbai to Delhi |
Air India, Deccan, Indigo, Jet, Jetlite, Spicejet |
Kingfisher |
In 3 out of the 7 flight surveys we carried out over this period the Kingfisher website was not working. If we can extrapolate this, it means that 43% of the time Kingfisher's website is not working. This could possibly mean that Kingfisher Airlines is losing 43% of the sales they should be making.
Considering that most airline tickets are sold online these days, this must be costing Kingfisher Airline's shareholders a lot of cake. Just ask Ryanair, an Irish airline who plan to turn off their antiquated website for an entire weekend to revitalise it. Ryanair take 90% of their bookings through their website, and it's estimated that turning it off for the weekend will cost them 4 billion rupees.
It's simply not worth it to continue having so much downtime. If Kingfisher are short of ideas, they can think of hosting with GoDaddy - airflights.to site is hosted at GoDaddy.com, which costs us 150 rupees a month, with very little downtime.
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