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Airfares soar up to 89% on key routes for Diwali week

By TBM Staff - Mumbai Sunday, 20 August 2023, 11:27 AM 666

Travelling by air during this Diwali is likely to be an expensive affair. Airfares on key routes across the country for the festival week — between November 10 and November 16 — are already up to 89 per cent vis a vis last year’s Diwali week due to high demand and limited capacity amid Go […]Continue Reading

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Airfare In India Spiked By 41% Since Covid: Report

By TBM Staff - Mumbai Tuesday, 13 June 2023, 3:00 PM 464

Airfares in key markets in Asia-Pacific and the Middle East rose sharply even as airport charges have remained steady since the pandemic. A study conducted by Airports Council International Asia-Pacific in collaboration with Flare Aviation Consulting on airfare trends in the region found highest airfare increase was in India (41 per cent), followed by the […]Continue Reading

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Personalizing travel protection through CFAR & dynamic bundling

By Barney Pierce Wednesday, 10 May 2023, 3:00 PM 6199

By Barney Pierce, SVP, Strategic Partnerships, APAC, Cover Genius India has experienced major upheavals in the airline industry ranging from flight delays to cancellations, and much more. According to industry data, at least one-third of all domestic flights are late and this number doesn’t seem to be improving. In January 2023, airlines denied boarding to […]Continue Reading

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Rising airfares hitting revival of tourism: Kerala Chief Minister to PM Modi

By TBM Staff - Mumbai Monday, 4 July 2022, 12:40 PM 611

Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan has asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi to intervene in the issue of rising air fares in the country, saying that it was not only causing hardship to non-resident Indians, but was also affecting revival of the tourism sector which is vital to the economy. Besides the rising air fares, another […]Continue Reading

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DGCA seeks India-UK airfare details from airlines

By TBM Staff - Mumbai Monday, 9 August 2021, 9:59 AM 1490

Amid complaints by air travellers over “high-fares” in the India-UK flights, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has sought details of fares in this route from airlines. The civil aviation regulator DGCA’s announcement has come in the wake of uproar by passengers who complained as India-UK flights restarted on Sunday after a gap of […]Continue Reading