03/06/2020 - 19:18
- Clarín.com
- travels
It seems that now the effects of coronavirus are beginning to impact on the fares of air tickets abroad . What at the beginning of the week was an assumption of something that was going to happen, is already beginning to be reflected in the searches.
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) had already pointed out the large losses that the sector would suffer. The airlines are already taking several measures such as the reduction in the capacity of some flights and the cancellation and routes.
That is why many experts in tourism and aviation have been or taking as a signal to give rise to offers on prices to fly to various destinations in the world.
Airports of the world with little movement by the coronavirus. In this case, San Francisco, United States Justin Sullivan / Getty Images / AFP
In a note published a few hours ago by the BBC World, economist Francisco Coll Morales - also an analyst at the World Tourism Forum - said that “the fall in the price of air tickets globally varies between 15 and 30 percent "
This fall in prices also begins to reflect little by little in Argentina and in some specific cases.
How much the tickets went down
From the blog Promos Aéreas AR (pomociones-aereas.com.ar), a site specialized in finding the best prices to fly to any destination in Argentina and the world, Matías Mute points out that this Friday March 6 began to see unpublished rates to destinations like Miami (United States) and Cancun (Mexico).
“Tickets to Miami that are usually around 38,000 or 40,000 pesos, today are at 28,000 pesos . There are several airlines that offer this fare. It is a matter of supply and demand. Demand has collapsed these days and that's why they reacted with those prices. ”
View of Miami Beach, one of the destinations that is registering lower air prices.
The concrete example does not wait: a ticket from Copa Airlines to fly from Ezeiza to Miami, with a stopover in Panama between the end of July and the beginning of August is sold at 28,989 pesos and includes the PAIS tax.
Also good rates began to appear to travel to the beach destination par excellence of Mexico: Cancun.
"In this case, the usual prices are usually forty-odd thousand pesos, but now there are fares on different airlines for 37,000," Mute brand.
Cancun and Riviera Maya, Mexico (Getty Images / Travel)
Let's go to the examples. On a flight with two stops, LATAM offers tickets to Cancun for less than 36,000 pesos, while Copa for 37,000, with one stopover. Aerolineas Argentinas flies direct and in this case the fare is 50,000.
We will have to see if these are two specific cases or the fall begins to replicate on flights to other destinations and with other airlines .