Post-crash air travellers checking aircraft model before booking tickets: Survey
About 41 per cent of Indian air travellers are looking at aircraft type before undertaking air travel. Another 56 per cent of the air travellers are checking which type of aircraft the airlines are going to use before booking or undertaking a flight.
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