Saturday, December 05, 2015

SpiceJet charges Rs 85,000 for 5-member family for one-way Mumbai flight

Bengaluru: With Chennai’s Anna International Airport shut down due to flooding, stranded passengers have made a beeline to Bengaluru, only to cough up exorbitantly high rates for one-way domestic fares.

On flight booking portal Yatra.com, a one-way, non-stop ticket to Mumbai from Bengaluru for Saturday, December 5, 2015, ranged from Rs 19,119 on SpiceJet to Rs 22,323 on Go Air.

Ignoring non-stops, ticket prices ranged from Rs 8,259 (Air India, one-stop at Hyderabad) to Rs 57,965 (Jet Airways, via New Delhi). The cheapest one-way, non-stop ticket to Delhi for the same day was quoting at Rs 17,538 (GoAir), going all the way up to Rs 28,269 (SpiceJet).


DH heard from a family, who had arrived in Bengaluru from Chennai, only to end up paying around Rs 85,000 for a flight to Mumbai.

The family of five, including a one-year-old toddler in tow, took a SpiceJet flight from Kempegowda International Airport here on Friday, after buying tickets from the airport counter.

Vani (names of family members have been changed on request), her husband Shekhar, their one-year-old-son, and Shekhar’s parents, were in Chennai to celebrate the child’s first birthday. But the crisis in Chennai forced the family to travel by car to Bengaluru, to try and take the first flight out.

Talking to Deccan Herald, Vani’s mother, Sarita said, “We came to Bengaluru because the airport at Chennai was shut due to rains. Initially, there were no flights here also. But when flights did become available, the airlines were charging a premium.”

Shekhar hopped counters enquiring about the availability of seats.

“Shekhar first went to the IndiGo counter, and found the fares very high. Then he went to the SpiceJet counter, where the one-way fares were quoted at Rs 85,000 for five of us (roughly Rs 19,000 per ticket for adults, while the toddler was charged a little less),” Sarita said, adding that the family still took the flight since they were with a child.
05/12/1015 Hrithik Kiran Bagade/Deccan Herald
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