{"id":600551,"date":"2023-08-31T09:30:42","date_gmt":"2023-08-31T04:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=600551"},"modified":"2023-08-31T10:16:28","modified_gmt":"2023-08-31T04:46:28","slug":"bargain-flight-prices-disappear-as-airline-industry-transforms-into-duopoly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/bargain-flight-prices-disappear-as-airline-industry-transforms-into-duopoly\/","title":{"rendered":"Bargain flight prices disappear as airline industry transforms into duopoly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As India\u2019s airline market transforms into a duopoly, ticket prices that have long known to be dirt-cheap are climbing. <\/p>\n<p>Airfares on India\u2019s busiest route, Mumbai\u2013New Delhi, were 23% higher during January through August than 2022, according to Thomas Cook India and SOTC Travel. India also saw the highest airfare surge \u2014 41% \u2014 in the region in the first three months of this year compared with 2019, a study by Airports Council International Asia Pacific found. <\/p>\n<p>The higher prices come at a time when two domestic carriers \u2014 IndiGo and Air India Ltd. \u2014 are set to control the bulk of one of the world\u2019s fastest-growing aviation markets, while most smaller rivals struggle to stay afloat in the notoriously competitive market.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As India\u2019s airline market transforms into a duopoly, ticket prices that have long known to be dirt-cheap are climbing. Airfares on India\u2019s busiest route, Mumbai\u2013New Delhi, were 23% higher during January through August than 2022, according to Thomas Cook India and SOTC Travel. India also saw the highest airfare surge \u2014 41% \u2014 in the region in the first three months of this year compared with 2019, a study by Airports Council International Asia Pacific found. The higher prices come at a time when two domestic carriers \u2014 IndiGo and Air India Ltd. \u2014 are set to control the bulk [&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":[135,167,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-600551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-civil-aviation-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600551","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=600551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600551\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=600551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=600551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=600551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}