{"id":279003,"date":"2019-06-19T05:44:04","date_gmt":"2019-06-19T05:44:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=279003"},"modified":"2019-06-19T05:44:04","modified_gmt":"2019-06-19T05:44:04","slug":"opinion-why-a-mumbai-phuket-round-trip-could-cost-as-much-as-flying-to-bengaluru-and-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/opinion-why-a-mumbai-phuket-round-trip-could-cost-as-much-as-flying-to-bengaluru-and-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion | Why a Mumbai-Phuket round trip could cost as much as flying to Bengaluru and back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Airline fares are not easy to understand for the lay person. They shuffle up or down in a moment. Fares can sometimes be cheaper for longer distances than for shorter distance flights. On international trips, you are almost always going to find a one-way fare to be significantly costlier than when you buy a round trip. All of it makes no sense to anyone but the guys who set the fares, commonly known as the revenue management departments of airlines.<\/p>\n<p>Airline fares are set largely depending upon the demand for flights on a certain day between two airports and the kind of passenger that is likely to fly. Additionally, if an airline has a monopoly on a route, or a large number of flights on that route, they would be likely to set a higher price on that route.<\/p>\n<p>As an example, take flights between Mumbai and Phuket, which I purchased for \u20b925,000 round trip over the Easter weekend. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Airline fares are not easy to understand for the lay person. They shuffle up or down in a moment. Fares can sometimes be cheaper for longer distances than for shorter distance flights. On international trips, you are almost always going to find a one-way fare to be significantly costlier than when you buy a round trip. All of it makes no sense to anyone but the guys who set the fares, commonly known as the revenue management departments of airlines. Airline fares are set largely depending upon the demand for flights on a certain day between two airports and the [&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-279003","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\/279003","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=279003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279003\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}