As ex-pats come home after the summer break, it is anticipated that airfares from several places in India to the UAE may increase by as much as 45 to 50% this month.
Travel agents are reporting a sharp increase in demand for airline tickets from South Indian cities like Bengaluru, Chennai, Kochi, and Kozhikode. Travel agents reported a rise in demand for airline tickets from Mumbai and Delhi to the UAE.
After the summer vacation, corporate travel is expected to begin, which will cause demand and ticket costs to skyrocket, they noted.
"The rates of one-way tickets from various sectors throughout India into the UAE will witness a spike of 45 to 50% after August 15," said Raheesh Babu, group chief operating officer of online travel agency Musafir.com.
Before August 15, the average cost of a one-way ticket between Mumbai and locations in the Kerala sector was Dh1,200. However, from August 15 to August 30, prices are soaring. They cost, on average, Dh1,300 to Dh1,900.
Although traffic typically peaks around this time of year, Babu continued, this year has seen record-breaking numbers of visitors to India.
Since March 2020, Indian ex-pats have been able to visit Indian cities without being subject to any Covid-related limitations. People who returned to India after a two-year absence made up the majority of visitors, according to Babu.
Similar patterns are being reported by a number of other travel agents.
According to Afi Ahmed, managing director of Smart Travels, costs to locations in the GCC at this time of year have been high for a number of years. Many families, particularly those with children in school, have little choice but to return from holidays since they must be back in time, according to Ahmed.
In order to combat the exorbitant costs, a travel firm organized charter flights from the UAE to Kerala in July, while schools were out for the summer. Equator Travel Management LLC, a Dubai-based travel firm, arranged a one-way charter flight on Air India Express to a well-known Kerala resort for as little as Dh1,090.
The majority of Indian and regional airlines are constrained by bilateral agreements between the two nations, making it difficult to ramp up operations to satisfy the increased demand. Nevertheless, these offers are few and far between.
According to the airline's regional manager, Air India would begin operating three times weekly flights from Dubai to Kolkata only in the winter. “We are constrained by bilateral agreements, therefore we are only able to experiment with our current rights,” he claimed.
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