After the festival of Chhath, now people who came to Bihar from many states of the country have to return back to the foreign country. In such a situation, air ticket prices are skyrocketing. There is no flight ticket available from Patna to Ranchi today. Even if you want to go tomorrow, there is no ticket available and if you have to go, you can go to Ranchi via Delhi but for this you will have to pay Rs 34000 for an economy class ticket. By talking to passengers traveling to Mumbai, Delhi, Pune, Bengaluru, Jaipur, Chandigarh, Kolkata, Ahmedabad, we learned when they booked their flight tickets and how much they had to pay.
More activity at Patna Airport
- Rahul, who was going from Patna to Mumbai, had booked his ticket on 17 October. Even then he had to pay Rs 18000. Rahul Begusarai had come to his village on Chhath festival. His brother also wanted to return to Mumbai along with him but now the ticket price has crossed Rs 25 thousand. Brother, we will wait for two-three days for the tickets to become cheaper. Rahul tells that on normal days tickets are available for seven to eight thousand rupees.
- The family paid one lakh to go from Patna to Ahmedabad! A family of four members is going from Patna to Ahmedabad. He bought the ticket a week ago and the price of one ticket was Rs 25000. Meaning, after spending Rs 1 lakh for four members, he is going back to Ahmedabad. This family lives in Vadodara, Gujarat.
- Those who took tickets in February-March, their fate: A family of three going from Patna to Chandigarh. He made advance travel plans and booked the tickets in February itself. At that time the price of Patna to Chandigarh flight ticket was only Rs 4500. In this way they remained profitable.
- Even when I booked a flight ticket from Patna to Jaipur in August, it cost Rs 10,000. The family going from Patna to Jaipur had booked the ticket in August but even then the price of one ticket was Rs 10 thousand.
Conversation with airport booking counter
- No tickets available to go to Ranchi today.
- There is no connecting flight for today either.
- Tomorrow’s ticket is also not available (Patna to Ranchi).
- Patna to Ranchi ticket for Rs 10000 on 11th November.
- You will have to pay a heavy price to go from Patna to Delhi also.
When I inquired about the flight from Patna to Delhi at Patna airport, the ticket prices surprised me. For the flight from here tonight at 12:15 you will have to pay more than Rs 18000. You will have to pay Rs 21000 for the morning flight on 11th November.