{"id":611085,"date":"2023-10-19T09:25:38","date_gmt":"2023-10-19T03:55:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=611085"},"modified":"2023-10-19T10:04:26","modified_gmt":"2023-10-19T04:34:26","slug":"festival-season-gains-momentum-leads-to-surge-in-airfares-hotel-tariffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/festival-season-gains-momentum-leads-to-surge-in-airfares-hotel-tariffs\/","title":{"rendered":"Festival season gains momentum, leads to surge in airfares, hotel tariffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Airfares and hotel tariffs are shooting through the roof as the festival season kicks off. During the  Diwali week (November 10-16), airfares on major routes across the country have surged by up to 44 per cent from the previous Diwali week. Robust demand and limited capacity, aided by Go First&#8217;s insolvency and SpiceJet&#8217;s financial stress, seem to be driving the extraordinary rise in fares. <\/p>\n<p>The average one-way airfare for the Mumbai-Delhi route during the Diwali week is Rs 8,788, up 27.8 per cent compared to the Diwali week of the previous year (October 21-27, 2022). These figures are based on data provided by travel website Ixigo and reflect fares for tickets booked 30-35 days before the travel date.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Airfares and hotel tariffs are shooting through the roof as the festival season kicks off. During the Diwali week (November 10-16), airfares on major routes across the country have surged by up to 44 per cent from the previous Diwali week. Robust demand and limited capacity, aided by Go First&#8217;s insolvency and SpiceJet&#8217;s financial stress, seem to be driving the extraordinary rise in fares. The average one-way airfare for the Mumbai-Delhi route during the Diwali week is Rs 8,788, up 27.8 per cent compared to the Diwali week of the previous year (October 21-27, 2022). These figures are based on [&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-611085","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\/611085","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=611085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611085\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=611085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=611085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=611085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}