Coronavirus: Airline offers tickets for just Dh15

Airlines hit by coronavirus outbreak.

As China grapples to contain the Covid-19 outbreak, Chinese airlines and airports seem to be the most hard-hit with around 10,000 flights a day cancelled.
This has placed immense pressure on the aviation industry and airlines are slashing prices in a bid to boost demand of domestic flights. Following this, a one-way three-hour air ticket from Shanghai to Chongqing is being offered for just 29 yuan (Dh15 approx) by China's biggest low-cost carrier Spring Airlines for its frequent flyer club members, reported SCMP.
A one-way ticket from Shanghai to Harbin, a distance of over 1,600km (994 miles), costs just 69 yuan. Shenzhen Airlines, a division of state-owned carrier Air China, is offering a one-way ticket to Chongqing from Shenzhen costing just 100 yuan, around 5 per cent of the standard price of 1,940 yuan.
"Considering lower average costs of operating in mainland China, carriers could potentially offer deeper discounts while making slim profits or just breaking even," said Luya You, an aviation analyst with Bank of Communication International.
The Civil Aviation Administration of China said in a notice on Tuesday that flights should resume gradually to return economic and social life back to normal.
Between January 25 and February 14, which included the Lunar New Year holiday, the average daily passenger traffic in China was just 470,000, representing a 75 per cent drop from the same period last year.