Now IRCTC to sell airline tickets too

With over eight lakh railway tickets booked on its website every day, IRCTC, a Railways PSU, has now decided to expand its services and sell airline tickets too.

With over eight lakh railway tickets booked on its website every day, IRCTC, a Railways PSU, has now decided to expand its services and sell airline tickets too.

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The corporation is planning to introduce the new service on its website soon with the aim to help "travellers get all travel-related solutions at a single source."

"A traveller planning to go to the hills up North needs to go to separate places to buy rail and airline tickets. He can make the bookings for both rail and airlines at our website," said IRCTC Managing Director Rakesh Tandon.

On other goals of the corporation which at present is in the midst of sprucing up its catering services, Tandon said they plan to introduce service-linked incentive to contractors offering catering services on board trains.

"We will set scores for each train and then link them to the incentive scheme to improve quality of catering services," Tandon said.

IRCTC handles catering services in as many as 400 trains.

Asked about the poor condition of pantry cars in several trains, he said IRCTC is trying to improve the conditions of such pantry cars.