{"id":411636,"date":"2021-04-23T10:10:36","date_gmt":"2021-04-23T04:40:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=411636"},"modified":"2021-04-23T11:03:50","modified_gmt":"2021-04-23T05:33:50","slug":"as-countries-close-borders-airfares-to-us-uk-up-3-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/as-countries-close-borders-airfares-to-us-uk-up-3-times\/","title":{"rendered":"As countries close borders, airfares to US, UK up 3 times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MUMBAI: Even as countries have begun closing borders to India, the rush to fly out has airfares on flights out of metros like Mumbai and Delhi to New York, London and San Francisco jump to breathtaking heights.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, the cheapest one-way fare from Mumbai or Delhi to New York for travel this weekend (April 23) started at just over Rs 1.4 lakh on an Air India flight. For travel next week, say on April 29, the cheapest was Rs 1.5 lakh for travel from Mumbai on a non-stop flight, while it was Rs 60,000 for a 20-hour flight with a transit halt.<\/p>\n<p>Advance purchase ticket, say for one-way travel from Mumbai to Newark, on, say May 15, started at Rs 60,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MUMBAI: Even as countries have begun closing borders to India, the rush to fly out has airfares on flights out of metros like Mumbai and Delhi to New York, London and San Francisco jump to breathtaking heights. On Thursday, the cheapest one-way fare from Mumbai or Delhi to New York for travel this weekend (April 23) started at just over Rs 1.4 lakh on an Air India flight. For travel next week, say on April 29, the cheapest was Rs 1.5 lakh for travel from Mumbai on a non-stop flight, while it was Rs 60,000 for a 20-hour flight with [&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":[192,130,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-411636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411636","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=411636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411636\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}