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by AlphaGrindset

24 days ago

Indian Airlines: Tier List 🛫

- **Tier 1** (Should Book These): Vistara (for comfort, feels, food) Indigo (for being cost effective, on time, no frills) - **Tier 2** (Doable): Air India (some planes are good now, but still inconsistent) Spicejet (if you are in luck, it's not too bad anymore) - **Tier 3** (I Don't Value My Life) Air India Express (fka Air Asia - avoid for life) Akasa (it's a great flight, as long as you assume your takeoff is at T+2 hours by default) Feel free to opine but this is how it is. I fly every month and have done so for years now. Hope this helps before you book for Diwali.

jinyang

Stealth

24 days ago

Swap Spice Jet and Air India Express

AlphaGrindset

Series A Startup

24 days ago

I'm not into swapping

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DaringTrain

Stealth

24 days ago

Agreed. Spice Jet par to travel insurance milna bhi band ho jayega

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SabChangaSi

Stealth

24 days ago

Completely incorrect analysis imo. My tiers: 1. Vistara 2. Air India 3. Air Asia 4. Indigo 5. Akasa 6. Air india express 7. Spicejet

AlphaGrindset

Series A Startup

24 days ago

Mostly aligned except do not ever put Air Asia on 3 It is GENUINELY a dangerous carrier to take Known security protocol flaws. In some proper companies, it's on the debarred list, agents would never book a Air Asia.

AlphaGrindset

Series A Startup

24 days ago

And it's not an analysis, just personal experience :)

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seventyfivehardd

Startup

24 days ago

indigo and on time together in a single sentence 😂 tell us what you’re smoking OP

AlphaGrindset

Series A Startup

24 days ago

I know what you're talking about There have been hurdles lately But tbh, I've taken Indigo and Vistara almost once each month for several months, Vistara is more likely to start later.

ShakkyInsaan

Microsoft

24 days ago

You can check the Airline reports on tardiness. Indigo has a historically least number of delays compared to any other airline ever. So no. He ain't smoking anything. You are maybe.

SentinelPrime

Cisco

24 days ago

Akasa isn’t actually that bad? I don’t know what experience you had man

AlphaGrindset

Series A Startup

24 days ago

It was good when it started out Then the strikes etc. happened Their flights became reliably late post that

StrangeSpill

Atlassian

23 days ago

Do you guys feel safe sitting in the Akasa Boeings?

OfficialInk0

Flipkart

24 days ago

Spicejet should be at last. They are just horrible. Don’t ever book if you are to be in time critical

Shaunty

Won’t say

24 days ago

How is SpiceJet in tier 2? Both Akasa and AIX are better than them. I have never boarded a SpiceJet flight which isn’t delayed. Have decided to just not book now.

AdeptFowl5

Stealth

24 days ago

Indigo is becoming dirty. Garbage here and there, stained seats. And no fresh food even in international flights. That's a bit much.

AlphaGrindset

Series A Startup

24 days ago

Hmm true about the stained seats and the fresh food Their sandwich sucks balls now

DaringTrain

Stealth

24 days ago

Why do you travel every month? Also, which OTA do you use or do you use Skyscanner?

AlphaGrindset

Series A Startup

24 days ago

Travel for work/personal stuff OTA - MMT for personal travel (because of convenience)

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AlphaGrindset

Series A Startup

24 days ago

Okay I concede on the SpiceJet point I thought they’d gotten better But it seems too widespread that they’re shit

SentinelPrime

Cisco

24 days ago

Haha

CompleteLaw0

Amazon

24 days ago

Spicejet is worst

Aragorn_urf_Maverick

Accenture

24 days ago

Vistara was awesome until few months back. Since its merger with Air India, it seems Vistara is going downhill.

PutridStem73

Stealth

24 days ago

There should be a separate Tier 4 for Spicejet

MrAnon

Student

24 days ago

Reading this while waiting for my delayed BLR-DEL Vistara flight 🙃

Corpowhore

Lendbox

24 days ago

Indigo standard seat got more legroom than vistara and as a 6ft guy that is ultra important. Vistara got movable headrest so can narrow it and sleep. Hate not being able to connect my nose cancelling headphones to vistara IFE. Indigo being more on time is important so vistara num 2

NinjaSloth

Walmart

24 days ago

Only indigo seems to have survived the test of time.. I liked Vistara but they have very few flights and routes in comparison. Spice jet I avoid like the plauge

AlphaGrindset

Series A Startup

24 days ago

Aligned 100%

NinjaSloth

Walmart

18 days ago

Spoke too soon I guess.. Looks like Indigo is either slipping or becomming complacent. Last 2 indigo flights I took this week were both late by almost an hour and to add insult to injury they had turned the AC off in one of them. It was cooler outside when we landed in B'luru😶‍🌫️

LetsGetLaidOff

Paytm

24 days ago

AC train fans assemble 👇

genetackovic

Stealth

24 days ago

For some reason I have never had a good experience with indigo

Bharatiya

Oracle

24 days ago

Spicejet should be at bottom. I am ready to give extra money but I won't sit in Spice Jet.

SentinelPrime

Cisco

24 days ago

Vistara my love

Elon_Musk

X.com

24 days ago

Vistara Air India Indigo Everything else Spicejet I feel Air India has been slightly better than Indigo for the past 1 year. But overall we need more quality airlines.

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