Mumbai: The demand for the celebration season for trips has sent flight rates to non-stop flights that surge on several domestic routes.
It was seen with rates from Mumbai to places such as Dehradun, Srinagar, Jaipur, Kolkata, Lucknow, Patna, Kochi.
Rates to foreign destinations open for Indians are also high, with the only men’s exceptions, where the current rates are cheaper than those to several domestic purposes.
There is a pattern for domestic rates – ticket costs back higher, especially if the return on Sundays or weekends.
Passengers who have not booked airplane tickets for Travel Diwali October-November can escape from high rates by choosing to return on weekdays and get a lower back cost of 20-30%.
Like, on Saturday, the cheapest return rate in Mumbai-Dehradun non-stop flight around October-end and returned on November 7, Sunday, starting at Rs 35,000.
It was Rs 29,300 on November 8, Monday.
A spokesman Yatra.com said: “For hotels and flights, we have seen trend increases and increased order of 40-50% with the demand for celebration season”.
Rikant Pittie, Co-founder, EasyMyTriparound said: “We have seen that rates can rise around 70% at the last minute and on Sunday Diwali.
Previously, we had seen a jump from air booking nearly 65% for long weekends of Ganesh Chaturthi and 54% Jumping air booking for a long weekend of Janmashtami.
This shows the trend where people use the celebration season for traveling.
So we are optimistic that travel bookings will increase during the celebration season.
“The tariff is not only a high international route, there is a scarcity of seats with nonstop flights.
Anoop Kanuga from Bathija Travels said: “India must allow airlines slowly to increase capacity on international routes at least 15-25% a month, until pre-covid capacity.”
Air travel requests in the celebration season, tariffs soared on weekends
