{"id":374744,"date":"2020-09-23T09:29:43","date_gmt":"2020-09-23T03:59:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=374744"},"modified":"2020-09-23T11:54:06","modified_gmt":"2020-09-23T06:24:06","slug":"airline-travel-shifts-towards-last-minute-bookings-domestic-trips-skyscanner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/airline-travel-shifts-towards-last-minute-bookings-domestic-trips-skyscanner\/","title":{"rendered":"Airline travel shifts towards last-minute bookings, domestic trips: Skyscanner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The air travel market has shifted toward last-minute bookings, one-way flights and more domestic trips as consumers grapple with fast-moving changes due to the coronavirus pandemic, a report from online search and booking site Skyscanner shows.<\/p>\n<p>The new trend will be an advantage for low-cost carriers that are able to offer competitive pricing amid an uncertain future for business travel, which was previously a major profit driver for full-service airlines, the report said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think generally we have seen if you look at the market prices are much keener than you would expect,&#8221; Skyscanner Vice President Commercial and Flights Hugh Aitken told Reuters in a phone interview. &#8220;That just reflects that airlines have capacity and need to fill that capacity.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The air travel market has shifted toward last-minute bookings, one-way flights and more domestic trips as consumers grapple with fast-moving changes due to the coronavirus pandemic, a report from online search and booking site Skyscanner shows. The new trend will be an advantage for low-cost carriers that are able to offer competitive pricing amid an uncertain future for business travel, which was previously a major profit driver for full-service airlines, the report said. &#8220;I think generally we have seen if you look at the market prices are much keener than you would expect,&#8221; Skyscanner Vice President Commercial and Flights Hugh [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[176,146,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-374744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374744","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\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374744\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}