MUMBAI: The number of people who opted to travel long-distance in their personal vehicle jumped about four times post-lockdown between July and October, according to a survey by a low cost carrier which collected responses from 2,400 passengers who had flown with them in the past two years.
\nPre-Covid only 9% people travelled in personal vehicles, but post lockdown that number rose to 35%. The responses also revealed that the percentage of people who opted for air travel went down from 80% pre-Covid to 55%, post lockdown. For rail journey, the number fell from 7% pre-Covid to 3%, post lockdown. In short, the survey highlighted a shift towards the use of either personal vehicle or hired vehicle as a preferred mode of travel in the months following the lockdown.
\nOnly 25% of the respondents said they had travelled post lockdown, between July and October, that is. Among the people who said they flew post lockdown, those in the age group 20-29 years made up for 42 %, up from the 25% pre-Covid. Those in 30-39 years bracket made up for 41%, down from 49% pre-Covid, and those above 40 years made up for 10 %, while pre-Covid this demographic comprised 19% of its passengers, according to findings of a `Travel Intent\u2019 survey carried out by AirAsia India.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
MUMBAI: The number of people who opted to travel long-distance in their personal vehicle jumped about four times post-lockdown between July and October, according to a survey by a low cost carrier which collected responses from 2,400 passengers who had flown with them in the past two years. Pre-Covid only 9% people travelled in personal vehicles, but post lockdown that number rose to 35%. The responses also revealed that the percentage of people who opted for air travel went down from 80% pre-Covid to 55%, post lockdown. For rail journey, the number fell from 7% pre-Covid to 3%, post lockdown. […]<\/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":[220,130,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-385447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385447","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=385447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385447\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}