Daijiworld Media Network – Mangaluru (EP)

Mangaluru, March 25: The airfare for Dubai to Mangaluru has literally touched the sky and passengers are made to shell out double the fare.

The airfare has gone up due to festivals and summer holidays that are starting next month. The ticket fare used to be Rs 30,000 otherwise. Easter feast is being celebrated on March 31, Ugadi on April 9 and Ramzan on April 11.  

A large number of passengers travel between Mangaluru and Dubai. As a large number of people are returning home during festivals, the one-way ticket fare has touched Rs 70,000, according to a report by The Times of India.

The ticket fare during the first week of April has touched Rs 51,000 from Dammam, Rs 70,000 from Dubai, Rs 45,000 from Abu Dhabi and Rs 53,000 from Doha, Qatar. However, the ticket fare for flights from Mangaluru has only marginally risen.

The ticket fares from Mangaluru to Abu Dhabi will be Rs 47,000 while it is Rs 36,000 to Doha, Rs 33,000 to Dammam and Rs 58,000 to Jeddah.

But the ticket fare for flights starting from Kannur and Bengaluru airports which are situated only about 150 kilometers and 350 kilometers away respectively is about half of these fares comparatively. The fare from Dubai to Kannur is about Rs 30,000, the newspaper report said.