{"id":624076,"date":"2023-12-23T09:44:18","date_gmt":"2023-12-23T04:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=624076"},"modified":"2023-12-23T10:49:08","modified_gmt":"2023-12-23T05:19:08","slug":"christmas-cheer-spot-airfares-on-major-domestic-routes-remain-in-check","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/christmas-cheer-spot-airfares-on-major-domestic-routes-remain-in-check\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas cheer: Spot airfares on major domestic routes remain in check"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Flying during this Christmas won&#8217;t have you singing the blues about your budget. <\/p>\n<p>Spot airfares on major domestic routes, such as Delhi-Pune, Delhi-Mumbai, Mumbai-Goa, and Mumbai-Chennai, have either declined or increased marginally during December 23-December 25, 2023, compared to the same period last year. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis situation is a classic example of \u2018once bitten, twice shy.\u2019 Prior to Diwali in November, airlines hiked fares significantly in anticipation of robust demand, only to find passengers scarce and load factors (occupancy rates) plummeting. Consequently, airlines had to initiate a last-minute sale to fill their seats,\u201d Ameya Joshi, an aviation analyst and founder of the aviation blog \u2018Network Thoughts\u2019 told Business Standard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flying during this Christmas won&#8217;t have you singing the blues about your budget. Spot airfares on major domestic routes, such as Delhi-Pune, Delhi-Mumbai, Mumbai-Goa, and Mumbai-Chennai, have either declined or increased marginally during December 23-December 25, 2023, compared to the same period last year. \u201cThis situation is a classic example of \u2018once bitten, twice shy.\u2019 Prior to Diwali in November, airlines hiked fares significantly in anticipation of robust demand, only to find passengers scarce and load factors (occupancy rates) plummeting. Consequently, airlines had to initiate a last-minute sale to fill their seats,\u201d Ameya Joshi, an aviation analyst and founder of [&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-624076","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\/624076","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=624076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624076\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=624076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=624076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=624076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}