Sam, I do not know if you experienced Air Deccan of late since VM sneaked into its board but then they have had a change in their booking. Now they have also adopted a global booking system (Radixx I think). VM probably thought Sabre will work out costlier (KF uses Sabre).
And irrespective of everything else I find that AD is not that bad afterall. If anything they have all new planes and for a change I find that the legspace in the economy class is much better. In fact better than Jet. And till date I have not experienced any hiccups in their flight timings, touchwood.
AD is also turning out to be another Tata, albeit in aviation. Grossly under estimated and loathed but many a times unfairly IMHO.
By the way, has anyone tried the Air India service from NJ to Mumbai? haa haa haaaa... thats something really. The hostesses nowadays are much more helpful. At times even mighty intuitive. Why, they even try to fill up the immigration form for many a 70+, only gujju speaking, old ladies and gentlemen. However the general ambience is that of a bus on a rickety ride from Khagadiya to Ara
Many a times one tipple down and you get an admonishing look from the grand old gujju lady seating next to you. And if you are really unlucky the gujju grand dad on the next seat who speaks broken hindi will give you a long lecture on the vices of the modern generation as well.