Airfares on India-US flights have elevated considerably for the reason that American authorities’s advisory to its residents to keep away from travelling to India due to a latest surge in COVID-19 circumstances, aviation business sources mentioned on Sunday.
Average fare for an economic system class ticket on an India-US flight is round Rs 50,000, however the fares for this week’s flights are hovering round Rs 1.5 lakh, the sources talked about.
High demand for tickets on India-US flights after the advisory on Thursday has led to the spike in fares, they mentioned.
“Many passengers want to go to US immediately as they don’t want to get stuck here if further restrictions are put in place on India-US flights,” mentioned one of many sources.
Some different international locations, together with Germany, the UK and the UAE, have additionally restricted air journey from India. The UAE has banned journey from India for 10 days from Sunday due to the worsening COVID-19 state of affairs within the nation.
The US authorities on Thursday had put India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Bangladesh and the Maldives on its Level 4 journey advisory, which implies asking Americans not to journey to these international locations.
Meanwhile, personal chartered flights inside the nation are additionally in excessive demand nowadays, primarily for taking COVID-19 sufferers from smaller cities to greater cities for higher medical remedy.
An official of a Mumbai-based constitution flight operator mentioned his planes have been busy for the final couple of days as they’ve been performed steady air ambulance flights for top net-worth people.
The value of personal chartered flights have elevated by up to two occasions, mentioned a Delhi-based basic aviation firm official.
India logged a report 3,49,691 new coronavirus infections in a day taking its whole tally of COVID-19 circumstances to 1,69,60,172, whereas lively circumstances crossed the 26-lakh mark, in accordance to the Union Health Ministry knowledge up to date on Sunday.
The demise toll elevated to 1,92,311 with a report 2,767 every day new fatalities, the information up to date at 8 am confirmed.
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