On Diwali eve (November 12, Monday), a one-way ticket for that evening’s flight from Delhi to Lucknow, barely an hour’s journey, was going over Rs 30,000. A Delhi-Bangalore ticket for Tuesday was between Rs 9,500 and Rs 42,500.
With the same price of domestic air tickets at crunch times like this on the eve of big festivals, one could fly to Europe, and back. That’s not all, on November 11 (Sunday), an economy class ticket from Mumbai to Kolkata was in the range of Rs 35,000 to Rs 43,000, and business class tickets above Rs 60,000.
Similarly, flying from Delhi to Ahmedabad in economy class of full service airlines on Diwali would cost from Rs 6,500 to Rs 38,600. With the grounding of Kingfisher accounting for a 19 per cent reduction in domestic flights, there is suddenly a huge demand-supply gap and airlines are making the most of it.
Leave aside festival eves, flying in general has become 100 per cent costlier, and in crunch times, it could be literally touch the sky.
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