{"id":531589,"date":"2022-10-25T12:16:42","date_gmt":"2022-10-25T06:46:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=531589"},"modified":"2022-10-25T12:16:42","modified_gmt":"2022-10-25T06:46:42","slug":"ahead-of-long-diwali-weekend-up-to-25-increase-in-delhi-mumbai-airfares","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/ahead-of-long-diwali-weekend-up-to-25-increase-in-delhi-mumbai-airfares\/","title":{"rendered":"Ahead of long Diwali weekend, up to 25% increase in Delhi-Mumbai airfares"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The high demand for air travel ahead of a long Diwali weekend has led to up to a 25% increase in airfares between Delhi and Mumbai with the cheapest fare on Wednesday for travel a day later being \u20b926,000 for a non-stop flight one-way. The airfare for a non-stop Mumbai-Delhi round trip normally costs \u20b912000.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe festive rush has resulted in a 20-25% increase in airfares for flights between Delhi and Mumbai&#8230;the [cities with] busiest airports in the country,\u201d online travel company EaseMyTrip co-founder Rikant Pittie said.<\/p>\n<p>An airline official said that people were utilising the long weekend for leisure travel apart from visiting friends and relatives for Diwali.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The high demand for air travel ahead of a long Diwali weekend has led to up to a 25% increase in airfares between Delhi and Mumbai with the cheapest fare on Wednesday for travel a day later being \u20b926,000 for a non-stop flight one-way. The airfare for a non-stop Mumbai-Delhi round trip normally costs \u20b912000. \u201cThe festive rush has resulted in a 20-25% increase in airfares for flights between Delhi and Mumbai&#8230;the [cities with] busiest airports in the country,\u201d online travel company EaseMyTrip co-founder Rikant Pittie said. An airline official said that people were utilising the long weekend for leisure [&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-531589","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\/531589","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=531589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531589\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=531589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=531589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=531589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}