{"id":29210,"date":"2021-12-30T16:18:19","date_gmt":"2021-12-30T21:18:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indianeagle.com\/travelbeats\/?p=29210"},"modified":"2021-12-30T17:00:57","modified_gmt":"2021-12-30T22:00:57","slug":"indian-airports-user-development-fee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indianeagle.com\/travelbeats\/indian-airports-user-development-fee\/","title":{"rendered":"Flying out of India will Cost a Little More from 2022 until December 2025 as Airports Hike User Development Fee"},"content":{"rendered":"
Owing to the limited capacity of international flight operations in the air bubble corridor, international air tickets are currently costing more than usual and burning holes into the pockets of travelers. On top of that is the collective cost of taking an RT-PCR test before and after arrival in India. The resumption of regular international passenger flights<\/a><\/span> would have normalized airfares for travel to and from India if the emergence of Omicron had not called off the normalization of international travel. Apparently, any chance for airfares to be normal again is at the mercy of the #Omicronvariant.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\u201cStarting in 2022, flying out of India will be costlier as per reports by the aviation regulatory authorities<\/strong>. Several major Indian airports have hiked the User Development Fee (UDF) that will be implemented in a phased manner through 2025 and levied on outbound travelers, both domestic and international. The increased UDF is one of the few measures that the airports have taken to meet the drastic revenue shortfall amid the pandemic,\u201d said the chief travel information officer of Indian Eagle<\/a><\/span>.\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n