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Now that you have booked your flight tickets after thoroughly researching several travel portals, half of the work is done. However, it is important to keep a note of the flight status as the schedule of different airlines keep on changing due to a number of circumstances. There may be situations when the airline, which has sold the ticket to you, will not use its aircraft for your journey.

Checking flight status before the journey is an extremely important factor for fliers, be it first timers or frequent ones. It does not matter whether the tickets have been booked via a travel agent, at airport counters or even online, it is always advised to check the reservations a number of times before the scheduled departure.

The leading low-cost carrier (LCC) in the country in terms of market share, Indigo is all set to launch 12 new routes in the coming days. These routes include Tier II cities like Vizag and Indore. This introduction will see a rise in the frequency of flights between Kolkata and Mumbai, and Pune and Delhi.

There have been countless occasions when travellers were left stranded at an airport terminal as they had no clue about the flight status beforehand. Eighty per cent of the frequent fliers must have faced this scenario where they found that their flight had been delayed or cancelled altogether.