Mumbai: The grounding of Jet Airways has left the tourism industry a worried lot as it has led to an average 25% spike in airfares across the sectors leading to massive hotel cancellations, says industry experts.
Some key sectors like Mumbai-Hyderabad, Mumbai-Delhi and Delhi-Mumbai have seen the fares flying by 62%, 52% and 49%, while the Bengaluru-Delhi sector has had the lowest impact with a 10% surge shortly before and soon after the grounding of Jet, show Cleatrip.com data.
Financially struggling for months, Jet Airways decided to call it quits from Wednesday night, leaving 22,000 jobs at stake and inconveniencing lakhs of passengers both domestic as well as international as Jet was the single largest airline out of and into the country.
