{"id":263327,"date":"2019-03-11T06:00:59","date_gmt":"2019-03-11T06:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=263327"},"modified":"2019-03-11T06:00:59","modified_gmt":"2019-03-11T06:00:59","slug":"flight-ticket-prices-skyrocket-as-airlines-reduce-capacity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/flight-ticket-prices-skyrocket-as-airlines-reduce-capacity\/","title":{"rendered":"Flight ticket prices skyrocket as airlines reduce capacity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mumbai: If you are planning on booking a last-minute flight ticket, be ready to pay through your nose. Airfares on trunk routes, connecting major metro cities, have risen 30-50% year-on-year, following the severe capacity reduction due to the grounding of more than two-fifths of Jet Airways (India) Ltd\u2019s fleet, and a runway closure in Mumbai.<\/p>\n<p>For instance, Delhi-Mumbai flight ticket price rose 48% on an annual basis to \u20b95,849 in March, according to travel and hotel booking website Ixigo.<\/p>\n<p>Ixigo data shows in March, the average one-way airfares between New Delhi and Pune rose 44% to \u20b95,973, while those between New Delhi and Kolkata increased 42% to \u20b95,678. The average fares between Mumbai and Hyderabad rose 35% to \u20b93,228 and between New Delhi and Chennai it saw 34% increase to \u20b95,382.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mumbai: If you are planning on booking a last-minute flight ticket, be ready to pay through your nose. Airfares on trunk routes, connecting major metro cities, have risen 30-50% year-on-year, following the severe capacity reduction due to the grounding of more than two-fifths of Jet Airways (India) Ltd\u2019s fleet, and a runway closure in Mumbai. For instance, Delhi-Mumbai flight ticket price rose 48% on an annual basis to \u20b95,849 in March, according to travel and hotel booking website Ixigo. Ixigo data shows in March, the average one-way airfares between New Delhi and Pune rose 44% to \u20b95,973, while those between [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[188,139,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-263327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263327\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}