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The man who made flying affordable to millions of Indians – BBC News
A new biopic pays tribute to Capt GR Gopinath who launched India’s first budget airline.
By Sudha G Tilak Delhi
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image captionCapt Gopinath launched India’s first budget airline in 2003
In the summer of 2005, retired army officer-turned-businessman GR Gopinath announced that he would enable Indians to fly at one rupee or less than a cent.
It was an incredulous sales pitch from the founder of the country’s first budget airline.
Air Deccan, his then two-year-old no-frills airline modelled on European budget carriers like EasyJet and Ryanair, had already made…
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