{"id":580978,"date":"2023-06-01T11:30:58","date_gmt":"2023-06-01T06:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=580978"},"modified":"2023-06-01T11:30:58","modified_gmt":"2023-06-01T06:00:58","slug":"gofirst-absence-big-factor-in-airfare-surge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/gofirst-absence-big-factor-in-airfare-surge\/","title":{"rendered":"GoFirst absence big factor in airfare surge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MUMBAI: While 24-hour advance purchase domestic airfares for flying out of Delhi are soaring, the scenario isn&#8217;t much different from Mumbai or other cities.<\/p>\n<p>The cheapest 24-hour advance purchase ticket to Leh from Mumbai is Rs 22,500, and Rs 20,000 to Kochi. The conventionally expensive eastern and north-eastern destinations are cheaper, with Mumbai-Kolkata at Rs 7,200, Bagdogra at Rs 8,300, and so on. The fare from Mumbai to Delhi is an incredible low Rs 4,700, One-day advance fares are expected to be pricey, but what stands out is the quantum jump for non-stop flights on certain routes.<\/p>\n<p>The effect is largely due to skewed demand-supply brought on by the absence of GoFirst. The airline, which suspended operations in early May, was cleared to operate 1,538 weekly flights between April and October-end. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MUMBAI: While 24-hour advance purchase domestic airfares for flying out of Delhi are soaring, the scenario isn&#8217;t much different from Mumbai or other cities. The cheapest 24-hour advance purchase ticket to Leh from Mumbai is Rs 22,500, and Rs 20,000 to Kochi. The conventionally expensive eastern and north-eastern destinations are cheaper, with Mumbai-Kolkata at Rs 7,200, Bagdogra at Rs 8,300, and so on. The fare from Mumbai to Delhi is an incredible low Rs 4,700, One-day advance fares are expected to be pricey, but what stands out is the quantum jump for non-stop flights on certain routes. The effect is [&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":[220,130,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-580978","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\/580978","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=580978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580978\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=580978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=580978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=580978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}