Sky high: Airfares increase up to 89% on key routes for Diwali week

Travelling by air during this Diwali is likely to be an expensive affair.

Airfares on key routes across the country for the festival week — between November 10 and November 16 — are already up to 89 per cent vis à vis last year’s Diwali week due to high demand and limited capacity amid Go First’s insolvency and SpiceJet’s financial troubles.The average one-way airfare on the Delhi-Ahmedabad route for the November 10-16 period is Rs 5,688, which is 72 per cent higher than in the Diwali week last year (October 21- October 27, 2022), according to data provided by travel website Ixigo. This is for tickets booked more than 80 days before the travel date.