India airlines defy order to stop selling tickets

Market leader IndiGo, operated by InterGlobe Aviation Ltd, is selling tickets from June 1, as is Vistara, the local affiliate of Singapore Airlines Ltd, searches showed.

MUMBAI: India ordered airlines this week to stop selling tickets. Hardly any listened.

Four of the country’s top six airlines, which together control 80% of the local market, are selling domestic flight tickets for as soon as the third week of May, searches on their websites showed.