Before the covid had reached our country, people use to prefer trains, buses or aeroplanes to commute to other cities rather than preferring personal vehicles. However, a low-cost India carrier has performed a survey that found that the number of people travelling via their personal vehicles has increased four times during post-lockdown time. The survey had received answers from respondents who had travelled with the carrier in the last two years. The findings are of a ‘Travel intent’ survey carried by AirAsia India.<\/p>\n
In the pre-covid time, only 9 per cent people travelled via a personal means, surprisingly, this number rose to 35 per cent post lockdown. Apart from this, the percentage of people preferring for an air journey had also reduced from 80% before covid to 55% post the lockdown.<\/p>\n
2,400 passengers gave their responses in the survey. The survey revealed the drastic shift of people preferring personal or hired vehicle in the month following the lockdown rather than a shared source of travel. Between July and October, only 25% of respondents travelled post lockdown.<\/p>\n
However, the survey provided a hope to the airline industry as 84% respondents said that they would plan to travel in the next 3 months and they would choose to board a flight for the same, however, at the same time, 12% chose travelling by a personal conveyance. Only 2.5% would either hire a vehicle or would opt for a train journey.<\/p>\n
Further, the bright spot was that this festive season is going to witness an increase in leisure travel where, 40% would go on a holiday, 30% would visit their hometowns, according to the received responses during the AirAsia India survey. However, pre-covid times witnessed 32% of respondents who went for leisure travel, but post-lockdown made up for a mere 6%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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