Air travel most likely to shoot up threefold due to social distancing in airplanes

BRAND-NEW DELHI: The very first couple of days post lockdown might see air travels escalate to as much as three times the pre-corona ticket expenses as flights may be running with only one-third tenancy to make sure maximum social distancing in between onboard guests.

Air travel authorities are examining the choice of allowing only one individual in a row of three seats, with another guest in the immediately-behind row-of-three on the diametrically opposite seat– widow-aisle-windowaisle configuration– during ‘Phase I’ of the reboot. The seating capability of a 180- seater single aisle (six seats across 30 rows) will, for that reason, fall by two-thirds to 60 (two individuals on each row of 6 seats across 30 r