Steep hike in fares on India-US flights after US govt’s ‘do not travel’ advisory

Airfares on India-US flights have elevated considerably because the American authorities’s advisory to its residents to keep away from travelling to India as a consequence of a current surge in COVID-19 circumstances, aviation trade sources mentioned on Sunday. Average fare for an economic system class ticket on a 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 because of the worsening COVID-19 scenario in 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 those international locations.

Meanwhile, personal chartered flights inside the nation are additionally in excessive demand today, 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 carried out steady air ambulance flights for prime net-worth people.

The value of personal chartered flights have elevated by as much as two instances, mentioned a Delhi-based common aviation firm official.

India logged a report 3,49,691 new coronavirus infections in a day taking its complete tally of COVID-19 circumstances to 1,69,60,172, whereas energetic circumstances crossed the 26-lakh mark, in response to the Union Health Ministry information up to date on Sunday.

The loss of life toll elevated to 1,92,311 with a report 2,767 day by day new fatalities, the information up to date at 8 am confirmed. 

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