Anyone with a love of travel and in a salaried job knows the pain of saving money for a holiday. You watch all those stunning travel pictures your friends keep sharing with ‘YOLO' hashtags and wonder how they manage the expense. When we were kids, the only time we got to check in to places (and not even on Facebook) were the customary annual trips our parents took us to. Well, looks like all that is going to change as Air India has just offered a massive discount for students, senior citizens and army personnel. 

The airline is offering a 50 percent discount on air tickets to the three categories. The official Twitter account of Air India posted the offer: 

#AIUpdate: Effective #today avail 50% #discount on #Students along with #ArmedForces #SeniorCitizens Pl visit https://t.co/T1SVjRluZv #FlyAI pic.twitter.com/n29xNWsyB5

The offer starts from September 1 and is subject to availability of seats, as mentioned in the tweet. We anticipate a crazy rush for air tickets on the site, fingers crossed. There is no mention of a last date for the discount, so we are assuming it's open ended right now, but since offers as good as this one often run out of resources soon enough, we wouldn't bet on this being a long-term thing. Also, the discount is on base fare of domestic economy class, so it's not for a Zindagi-Na-Milegi-Dobara-Euro trip. It's more like a Yeh-Jawani-Hai-Deewani-holiday thing, but hey no one's complaining. *Cough* Goa *cough*

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If, like us, you're wondering if college students are eligible, let us tell you they totally are. Any student between the age of 12 to 26 and enrolled in a full-time course at an educational organization “recognized/aided by/ affiliated to a central or State educational board” is eligible.

Picture this: a family with 2 senior citizens, 2 students, and 2 adults working in the Armed Forces. That's a bonus holiday right there!