{"id":411911,"date":"2021-04-26T08:55:53","date_gmt":"2021-04-26T03:25:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=411911"},"modified":"2021-04-26T09:05:14","modified_gmt":"2021-04-26T03:35:14","slug":"steep-hike-in-fares-on-india-us-flights-after-us-govts-do-not-travel-advisory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/steep-hike-in-fares-on-india-us-flights-after-us-govts-do-not-travel-advisory\/","title":{"rendered":"Steep hike in fares on India-US flights after US govt&#8217;s &#8216;do not travel&#8217; advisory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Airfares on India-US flights have increased significantly since the American government&#8217;s advisory to its citizens to avoid travelling to India due to a recent surge in Covid-19 cases, aviation industry sources said on Sunday. <\/p>\n<p>Average fare for an economy class ticket on a India-US flight is around Rs 50,000, but the fares for this week&#8217;s flights are hovering around Rs 1.5 lakh, the sources mentioned.<\/p>\n<p>High demand for tickets on India-US flights after the advisory on Thursday has led to the spike in fares, they said.<br \/>\n&#8220;Many passengers want to go to US immediately as they don&#8217;t want to get stuck here if further restrictions are put in place on India-US flights,&#8221; said one of the sources.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Airfares on India-US flights have increased significantly since the American government&#8217;s advisory to its citizens to avoid travelling to India due to a recent surge in Covid-19 cases, aviation industry sources said on Sunday. Average fare for an economy class ticket on a India-US flight is around Rs 50,000, but the fares for this week&#8217;s flights are hovering around Rs 1.5 lakh, the sources mentioned. High demand for tickets on India-US flights after the advisory on Thursday has led to the spike in fares, they said. &#8220;Many passengers want to go to US immediately as they don&#8217;t want to get [&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-411911","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\/411911","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=411911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411911\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}