{"id":600639,"date":"2023-08-31T11:21:14","date_gmt":"2023-08-31T05:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=600639"},"modified":"2023-08-31T11:21:14","modified_gmt":"2023-08-31T05:51:14","slug":"air-india-indigos-expanding-wings-are-making-indians-finances-weak-as-airfare-discounts-fly-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/air-india-indigos-expanding-wings-are-making-indians-finances-weak-as-airfare-discounts-fly-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Air India, IndiGo&#8217;s expanding wings are making Indians&#8217; finances weak as airfare discounts fly out"},"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","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.<\/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":[192,130,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-600639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600639","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=600639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600639\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=600639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=600639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=600639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}