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iXiGO.com partners with Air Valid for user-generated airline ratings
iXiGO.com, India’s fastest growing travel site has partnered with Air Valid, the world's leading airline information, opinions and reviews site, to display user generated qualitative airline ratings in iXiGO.com's international flight search results. With the addition of user-generated ratings for various airline qualitative factors, iXiGO.com has become the first travel site in India to offer more than just airfare and schedule information in order to help Indian air passengers make more qualified decisions when choosing one airline over another. The qualitative userrated factors integrated into iXiGO.com's airline filters include seat comfort, seat pitch, punctuality, attitude of the crew, cleanliness of the plane, condition of the luggage upon arrival and overall quality of aircrafts. Commenting on the partnership, Aloke Bajpai, Founder & CEO, iXiGO.com said, "Travelers seek advice from other travelers before booking hotels. We don't see why it should be any different for flights. For the same reason, Low Cost Carriers (LCCs) are now investing in improvement of quality of service factors for building differentiation." Rajnish Kumar, Co-Founder & CTO added – "Our user analytics shows that passengers do not make choices solely driven by price, specially for international travel. Factors like on-time performance, comfort, seat-spacing, level of service and cleanliness vary from one airline to the other, influencing the choice of airline, specially on competitive routes where fares are similar across carriers." Air Valid has aggregated over 114,000 certified airline reviews from passengers of 261 airlines across 13,000 routes around the world and has launched a dedicated website for the Indian market air-valid.in a few months ago, with its flight searches being powered by iXiGO.com. Arnaud Bilquez, Founder-CEO, Air Valid said – "Air Valid's user-generated airline opinions/ratings and iXiGO.com's market-leading airfare search engine are perfect partners for providing neutral, unbiased information to travelers for making more informed choices while searching and booking their flights." |
