The two-hour flight from Mumbai to Delhi typically costs around ?110 (US$196) with Indian Airlines or its plusher rival, Jet Airways. Air Deccan charges just ?35, similar to the cost of the same journey by train -- but the train takes about 24 hours.
Only 1 percent of India's population has ever travelled by plane, so a country of a billion people has fewer flights each day than Norway. Rural India is littered with more than 300 unused airstrips. Captain Gopi has pledged to enable every Indian to fly at least once.
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