Jaipur: If you are planning a vacation, then flying to a foreign destination would cost you less than the domestic destinations. The airfares for domestic towns are soaring. The airline operators have hiked their fares for domestic destinations due to high rush in the ongoing tourist season.
Flying to Mumbai or Goa is more costly than flying to Dubai or Sharjah. That’s why people are preferring foreign destinations for vacations.
Tarun Jain, a travel planner, said, “Concept of low cost airfare has just vanished. Tours to domestic towns are going to be expensive due to high airfares. Airline operators have increased fares for domestic cities. Two to three years back, fare prices were much less, which prompted people to travel by air. But now, fare prices for domestic towns like Mumbai, Bangalore, Goa and Hyderabad are very high.”
While talking about airlines which have recently started operations, he said, “The AirAsia is offering low fares to international destinations like Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur and Singapore. It is charging between Rs4,500 and Rs8,409. This airline is operating from Chennai, Tiruchirappalli and Bangalore. Even from Jaipur, the fare for Air Arabia flight to Sharjah is just Rs7,703 on bookings made a fortnight in advance.”
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