Air Costa Partners with TripFactory to Offer Hotel & Holidays Booking

Air Costa, one of the newest airlines in the burgeoning Indian aviation industry, announces its partnership with TripFactory.com, the online travel store that provides advice to travellers and helps them find the best price, comfort and recommendations for trips with direct prices from travel suppliers.

With this partnership, travelers can book holiday packages with hotels of their choice while booking their flights with Air Costa in aircosta.tripfactory.com. Air Costa’s corporate guests can also avail this facility for a quick stopover during their business trips.

With this initiative, Air Costa underlines its commitment towards customers by providing them best trip options from various verified travel experts across India, with the convenience of searching and booking at one place and at best possible price.

Irrespective of the type of trips - be it a 1 day leisure trip, a business trip combined with a bit of leisure, family holidays, honeymoon trips, or group tours with friends - aircosta.tripfactory.com has something for everyone.

TripFactory platform’s flagship feature of bundling hotel brands with special airfares which results in savings up to 40% will be a boon for independent business travelers and SMEs. The packages in the new portal invariably include flights, hotels, car transfers and sightseeing options.

Commenting about the launch, Captain K. N. Babu, Chief Executive Officer, Air Costa said, “The new portal presents a unique offering to our growing customer base with excellent choices of trip packages at best prices coming directly from experts themselves,”.

“TripFactory is powering the entire technology behind this initiative and their team manages the content from the experts. The platform has been built in such a way that it exactly understands the customer needs and presents precisely the best possible choices that suits every travelers budget”, Captain Babu added further.

Founder and CEO of TripFactory, Vinay Gupta, said, “We are excited to partner with Air Costa and bring to their customers the finest travel experience that exists online today. Our mission is to be the most useful travel platform for travelers.”

Gupta further added that “TripFactory.com is re-inventing travel, and it is the future of travel buying. It offers unbiased advice and it is a repository of everything that customers may need when they plan their travel or seek expert advice.”

Search, customize and buy travel the most unique way at www.aircosta.tripfactory.com

About Air Costa

Air Costa, part of LEPL Group, is a regional scheduled operator based out of Vijayawada in Andhra Pradesh launched its services in October 2013, and currently operates 34 daily flights to 9 Indian cities. The cities of Chennai, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Jaipur, Ahmedabad, Coimbatore, Visakhapatnam, Tirupati and Vijayawada are connected with Embraer E Jets of two E 170s and two E 190s, which has “Redefining Air Travel” with its cabin room & seating comfort.

With our “Customer First Attitude” Air Costa has made special efforts to carry the longevity of excellence in every key functional area with an objective to achieve customer delight.

About TripFactory:

TripFactory is a travel technology platform that organises the world’s travel knowledge and products, offers unbiased advice, presents a wide range of travel products at best prices directly sourced from travel companies, and provides a personalized shopping and booking experience. TripFactory platform enables customers to browse travel products using semantic search technology. For example, a traveler can search for ‘Fly from Delhi to Dubai and stay in a 5 star hotel under Rs 40,000’.

The platform powers the holiday portals of airlines such as SpiceJet, Air Costa and GoAir. With an offering of over 100,000 travel products and packages, TripFactory aims to become the largest online travel store globally.

Launched in 2013, TripFactory aims to revolutionise the travel industry with its superior technology that not only brings offline travel companies to the online world, but also creates a win-win situation by bundling travel products from suppliers in the most efficient way.

TripFactory is co-headquarted in India and in the US, and it is founded by Vinay Gupta and Amit Aggarwal, who were also the co-founders of Via.com, a leading Asian travel brand. For more information, please visit: http://www.tripfactory.com

For further information, please contact:

Mr Pramod Mitta; Air Costa; Mob: +91 89786 95111 E: pramod.mitta@aircosta.in

Mr Karthick Prabu; TripFactory; Mob: +91 95350 41561 E: karthick@tripfactory.com

Mr Siddharth Kumar; Adfactors PR; Mob: +91 98339 33447 siddharth.kumar@adfactorspr.com