{"id":264357,"date":"2019-03-15T05:25:26","date_gmt":"2019-03-15T05:25:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=264357"},"modified":"2019-03-15T05:25:26","modified_gmt":"2019-03-15T05:25:26","slug":"airfares-skyrocket-in-fast-growing-indias-aviation-market-on-boeing-737-max-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/airfares-skyrocket-in-fast-growing-indias-aviation-market-on-boeing-737-max-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"Airfares skyrocket in fast-growing India&#8217;s aviation market on Boeing 737 Max ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Average airfares in India soared after the nation joined others in grounding Boeing Co.\u2019s 737 Max jets, shrinking capacity in the world\u2019s fastest-growing aviation market, where carriers have traditionally lured first-time flyers with ultra-cheap fares.<\/p>\n<p>Average fares on 14 main routes jumped more than 65% on Thursday, compared with a year ago, data from online travel agent Yatra.com showed. In contrast, fares on average were up just about 30% on 12 February , when India was yet to decide on grounding the Boeing jets, the data showed.<\/p>\n<p>Tickets from the technology hub of Bengaluru to the financial capital of Mumbai &#8212; a distance of just over 500 miles \u2014 were selling for \u20b912,748 ($180) on Thursday, compared with \u20b98,643 two days ago, according to Yatra.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Average airfares in India soared after the nation joined others in grounding Boeing Co.\u2019s 737 Max jets, shrinking capacity in the world\u2019s fastest-growing aviation market, where carriers have traditionally lured first-time flyers with ultra-cheap fares. Average fares on 14 main routes jumped more than 65% on Thursday, compared with a year ago, data from online travel agent Yatra.com showed. In contrast, fares on average were up just about 30% on 12 February , when India was yet to decide on grounding the Boeing jets, the data showed. Tickets from the technology hub of Bengaluru to the financial capital [&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-264357","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\/264357","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=264357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264357\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}