Airlines wooing passengers with ultra-low fares for advance bookings
The Hindu
There is now a rise in number of people booking tickets well in advance, as opposed to last minute emergency travel, according to travel portals
After a drastic fall in demand for air travel from March onwards due to the second wave of COVID-19, there is now a steady rise in the number of daily passengers. People are once again making bookings well in advance of their travel dates, as well as returning from tier-2 and tier-3 cities to big metros, according to online travel agents. “The domestic air traffic is picking up with a 45% rise in June compared to May due to opening up of cities as the second wave of COVID-19 subsided,” says Ameya Joshi, Founder of aviation analysis website Network Thoughts. “The average daily count stood just shy of 1 lakh passengers per day in June, which is one fourth of pre-COVID numbers,” he adds. In February 2021, before the second wave of COVID-19 hit, passenger figures hovered between 2.5 lakh and 3 lakh per day nearing pre-COVID levels. But, from March began a decline that would touch a low of 39,370 passengers on May 18.More Related News