{"id":381259,"date":"2020-10-29T11:23:31","date_gmt":"2020-10-29T05:53:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=381259"},"modified":"2020-10-29T12:24:07","modified_gmt":"2020-10-29T06:54:07","slug":"air-travel-bookings-on-the-rise-due-to-festive-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/air-travel-bookings-on-the-rise-due-to-festive-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Air travel bookings on the rise due to festive season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a major relief to airlines and travel portals, the number of air travellers is on the rise due to the festival season. According to several travel portals, there has been a significant rise in bookings around Diwali and the festive season. The number of bookings has gone up by at least 20% as compared to the last few months that were badly hit due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Apart from Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh and Goa, Delhi, Patna, Bengaluru and Kolkata are the other popular destinations.<\/p>\n<p>Vipul Prakash, chief operating officer, MakeMyTrip (MMT), said that they have noticed a significant increase in travel bookings during the festive season across the country. \u201cDue to Diwali, our data indicates a 20% jump in bookings on dates between November 6 and 16. With people looking forward to returning home to celebrate the festival with their loved ones, Delhi, Patna and Kolkata currently are the most-booked destinations. In the coming weeks, we expect other metros and cities to pick up traction as well,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a major relief to airlines and travel portals, the number of air travellers is on the rise due to the festival season. According to several travel portals, there has been a significant rise in bookings around Diwali and the festive season. The number of bookings has gone up by at least 20% as compared to the last few months that were badly hit due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Apart from Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh and Goa, Delhi, Patna, Bengaluru and Kolkata are the other popular destinations. Vipul Prakash, chief operating officer, MakeMyTrip (MMT), said that they have noticed a significant [&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":[184,141,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-381259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-hindustantimes","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381259","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=381259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381259\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}