{"id":508624,"date":"2022-07-25T12:28:07","date_gmt":"2022-07-25T06:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=508624"},"modified":"2022-07-25T12:28:07","modified_gmt":"2022-07-25T06:58:07","slug":"high-airfares-a-deterrent-for-tourists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/high-airfares-a-deterrent-for-tourists\/","title":{"rendered":"High airfares a deterrent for tourists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alliance Air, a Central Government-owned airline, is charging an exorbitant fare of Rs 26,121 for the 85-minute Kullu to Delhi flight from the Bhuntar airport. Besides, seats can be pre-booked by paying Rs 100 to Rs 300 extra during online check-in. The airline website shows the one-way Kullu to Delhi fare of Rs 25,771 but charges Rs 350 as convenience fee for online ticket booking.<\/p>\n<p>The airline is charging Rs 24,021 per seat for the 45-minute one-way flight from Kullu to Chandigarh. If a person reserves a seat, he will have to pay Rs 300 more. Moreover, tickets are not easily available during the peak tourist season or when needed at a short notice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alliance Air, a Central Government-owned airline, is charging an exorbitant fare of Rs 26,121 for the 85-minute Kullu to Delhi flight from the Bhuntar airport. Besides, seats can be pre-booked by paying Rs 100 to Rs 300 extra during online check-in. The airline website shows the one-way Kullu to Delhi fare of Rs 25,771 but charges Rs 350 as convenience fee for online ticket booking. The airline is charging Rs 24,021 per seat for the 45-minute one-way flight from Kullu to Chandigarh. If a person reserves a seat, he will have to pay Rs 300 more. Moreover, tickets are not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[224,130,150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-508624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-tribune","category-newspapers","category-the-tribune"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508624","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\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=508624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508624\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}