Indian Winters: Weather Plays Spoilsport In High Demand Times for Flight Booking

The winters are back, as usual, with their own set of benefits and troubles for the airlines and the passengers. The winters are good seasons for tourism in India, as the people are saved from heat of the sun which prevents them from making vacation and travel plans. Similarly, this is the time when a number of festivals happen around the world and there are working offs in most parts of the world. These are the times when the people plan their travel schedules and set-off to vacations in different parts of the world. If you had tried doing a hotel booking in this season in India, you would realize the heavy tourist rush during this season since most of the hotels would be reporting a total booked status for days and months ahead.

Heavy domestic and international tourist demand makes the flight tickets pricier. You shall not expect the lowest air fare during this season. And, even if you are flying on the dearer tickets, you shall not expect that the flights will be operating on schedule and that you will be saved of the troubles and inconvenience which arise due the flight operations in winter season. There are good chances of getting the dense blankets of fogs all through the late evenings to the early mornings. And, if the fog is able to beat all the advanced flight landing and take-off systems such as CAT II or CAT III and which it does more often than not, then you can always expect time delays in the flights or even the cancellations of flights.

This also puts a lot of pressure on the seat factors in the flights operating at times when the fog is expected to be clear since the people prefer to do flight booking at these times when fog is not around. So, there is huge demand and the cheap air tickets are out of question. In fact, the fliers can expect long queues at congested airports, waiting for their turn. Airlines can also expect to see a rise in the number of flight cancellations and the consequent claims for refunds. So, the typical weather conditions of winters make these both the restraining factor as well as the high demand factor for booking domestic and cheap international flights.