Flight tickets get cheaper by 30% after high demand of Vande Bharat trains on these routes

Cheap Flight Tickets: On festivals like Diwali, Chhath, the number of people travelling by flights, trains and buses has increased significantly. In such a situation, considering the demand, it becomes very difficult to get tickets in trains and flights. At the same time, prices of flight tickets have also started touching the sky due to the festive season.

However, Central Railways recently shared a data survey related to passengers, revealing that due to the popularity and high demand of Vande Bharat trains, flight tickets on many routes have become cheaper by up to 30 percent. And air passenger traffic on those routes has also decreased.

Vande Bharat is popular on these routes

Central Railways said in its report that passengers are very fond of Mumbai-Sainagar Shirdi, Mumbai-Solapur, Mumbai-Madgaon and Nagpur-Bilaspur Vande Bharat Express trains. Most of the passengers in the age group of 15 to 30 years and 31 to 45 years are travelling in these trains. 

Flight tickets became cheaper by up to 30%

In the report shared the Railways, it has been claimed that according to industry estimates, passenger traffic has declined by 10-20 per cent due to the launch of Vande Bharat trains.

At the same time, due to this decrease in demand, flight tickets have also become cheaper by 20-30 per cent.

Which age group of people are travelling the most through Vande Bharat?

Railways has also shared the data according to the age group of passengers traveling by Vande Bharat trains, in which information has been given about which age group of people are travelling the most in which train.

Train No. 22225/22226 CSMT-Solapur Vande Bharat

Total passengers 55905 (male-34016 and female-21881)
Age Group 15 to 30 years – 18764 passengers (33.56%)
Age group 31 to 45 years – 18042 passengers (32.27%)
Age group 46 to 60 years – 11528 passengers (20.62%)
Age group above 60 years – 5133 passengers (9.18%)
Age Group 1 to 14 years – 2438 passengers (4.36%)