Travelling abroad becomes cheaper

New Delhi: If you want to beat the slowdown blues, then head for foreign shores. Airlines have dropped international ticket prices to unprecedented rock bottom levels to fill up the vacant seats.
For instance, Air India now has a return basic fare of Rs 6,900 for London. Combined with taxes and surcharge, the overall figure is about Rs 27,000. Similarly, British Airways has launched a limited period Rs 9,990 return fare that combined with taxes and surcharge will also be close to AI's figure. Some Gulf carriers offer even lower fares beginning Rs 22,000. Travel industry puts this figure at being nearly 40% lower than the earlier average beginning level of Rs 40,000.
Similarly, the Delhi-New York economy class tickets now begin from Rs 40,000. which is nearly 40% lower than the earlier starting level of Rs 60,000. Even the nonstop flights of Air India and Continental cost upwards of Rs 44,000. A Delhi-Los Angeles return ticket will cost upwards of Rs 53,000 while a return trip to Dubai will cost just about Rs 17,000 on full service carriers.
In fact all airlines including Indian carriers like AI, Jet and Kingfisher and foreign ones like BA, Lufthansa, Etihad, Emirates and Singapore Airlines have cut fares on most sectors to and from India.
06/03/09 Saurabh Sinha/Times of India

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Categories: Foreign Mar 2009, Indian Aviation- In General Mar 2009