Last November, Travelguru kicked off a feature to search for availability of flights by means of SMS. Today cleartrip also launched the same service with their own short code – 667744
To search for availability of flight from Mumbai to Chennai on Marh-31st, just send an SMS “fly mumbai chennai 31 march” to 667744. It will reply with up to 8 flights because cleartrip has tie-up with 8 Airline operators. Airlines have been assigned short codes such as IN for Indian Airlines , KF for King Fisher etc. The service is available from Airtel, BPL, Hutch and Reliance CDMA phones only. BSNL and Idea mobile subscribers can’t avail of this service yet.