The last couple of weeks were threatening, scary, stressful, and worrisome for the Indian aviation industry. Flights of many famous airlines received bomb alerts and were threatened through mail and were even blackmailed to get a ransom. Though many threats turned out to be hoax, not all travellers feel ready to travel at this cautious moment. Just before the departure dates, many of them are cancelling their trips.
Travellers Set To Change Their Travel Plans Because Of Flights Getting Continuous Bomb Threats
From Air India and IndiGo to Vistara and Akasa Air, the leading airlines of India experienced a miserable time in the past few weeks due to continuous bomb threats. These alerts disrupted flight operations and airlines remained on high alert as well. Investigators have discovered around 11 fake social media accounts linked to these fake bomb threats.
Hearing all this unexpected news, many holiday goers decided to postpone their trips for the time being. The LocalCircles platform recently conducted a survey with more than 15,200 participants. The respondents were from different cities and rural districts nationwide. According to a report by News18, 61 per cent of these respondents were men and the rest were women.
To find out more about travellers’ plans in the next few weeks and how bomb alerts triggered their decisions, the survey highlighted questions about the effect of bomb threats in India on catching a flight in November. The next month is a peak holiday season with thousands and lakhs of passengers waiting to board flights every day.
What Were Their Responses?
- 25 per cent of 15,210 participants revealed that they will not make any delays or changes in their travel plans. They will board their scheduled flights “without any caution”.
- 46 per cent of the respondents will travel accordingly but remain cautious on their journeys.
- 9 per cent of travellers are thinking about changing their travel plans, but they are unsure.
- 8 per cent are very strict about changing their plans completely as they do not want to be in any such situation.
- 12 per cent have made all changes to their plans.
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What are your travel plans? Are you willing to catch the flight or cancel it?
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