Flight ticket from Chennai to USA slashed !
Posted on: 08/Jul/2019 10:11:00 AM
Many people travel these days from Chennai city to USA for official purposes, to meet their relatives or friends etc. It is now revealed that flying from Chennai to Far East and onwards to USA might become cheaper and better by the end of 2019.
Point to be noted here is there are many airlines available now and the competition between these airlines have been a major factor in the reduction in the ticket prices. It is important to note that All Nippon Airways is planning to enter the Chennai-Asia-USA sector with full service flights between Chennai and Tokyo. It is known that there are many connecting flights available from Tokyo to USA. Point is the passengers would have the option to hop via Singapore, Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur and Hong Kong.
For beginning the flight services in the month of December 2019, All Nippon has filed for the slots with the DGCA. The truth is the most popular route from Chennai to USA by flights is through Europe/ Middle East and this has been getting expensive because of high demand. Information collected is the return fares range from Rs 80,000 to Rs 95000 to the cities belonging to USA through Middle East. The superb piece of news is fares of flights through Far East would be lesser by Rs 10000.
By the end of 2019, Singapore Airlines is having plans to launch full-service flights between Chennai city and Singapore city. It is well known that Singapore Airlines operates its low carrier Scoot Airways in the sector. To those passengers who fly beyond Singapore to USA and Australia, Singapore Airlines would introduce 3 flights from Chennai and Singapore. This would reduce the airfares even further. This was as per an official belonging to the airport. There has been increase in the travelers from Chennai to USA and this was confirmed by Thomas Cook and Yatra.com.
It was pointed out by the president, global business travel, Thomas Cook, Mr. Indiver Rastogi, that Tamil Nadu has been the critical source market for Thomas Cook India. He hinted that there has been increase in the passengers from Chennai to USA and these passengers have been showing a preference for the east (Asia Pacific) route. It is worth mentioning that Cathay Pacific, Malaysian Airlines and Singapore Airlines have been the prime drivers of variable tariffs on the sector.
Mr. Rastogi explained about how with the reduced flying time as well as reduced fuel burn his airlines had witnessed 8 % to 10 % increase in the passengers to places like Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia and Hong Kong etc. Yatra.com, chief operating officer, Mr. Sharat Dhall spoke about how large number of people are flying from Chennai city to USA, Europe and UK for pleasure.
