This airline is offering COVID-19 tests for Rs 300 only

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This airline is offering COVID-19 tests for Rs 300 only (Photo by yousef alfuhigi on Unsplash)
This airline is offering COVID-19 tests for Rs 300 only (Photo by yousef alfuhigi on Unsplash)

New Delhi : SpiceJet has come up with an innovative plan to bring people back on planes. The airline is now offering coronavirus tests at price as low as Rs 300.

SpiceHealth, the unit selling the tests, has also set up mobile-testing facilities for the general public in Mumbai and New Delhi, where starting from 499 rupees, people can come in or have a sample collected from their home.

It must be noted that India’s domestic aviation sector is recovering much better than in countries like Singapore and Hong Kong. No-frills carrier SpiceJet posted a net loss of 569.6 million rupees in the quarter ended Dec. 31 compared with a profit of 732 million rupees a year earlier.

Such loses have prompted airlines to take note of new measures to increase the revenue. Australia's Qantas Airways Ltd. last year rented out one of its Boeing Co. Dreamliners for sightseeing trips over Antarctica and sold items typically given away to premium passengers, including pajamas.

Until the vaccines are administered to people in large numbers, it is unlikely that international travel will resume properly. Carriers could burn through as much as $95 billion this year, close to double the International Air Transport Association's previous forecast.