300 thousand for a «van vey ticket»
Saturday's commotion with air prices has put not only panic-prone tourists, but the entire domestic tourism industry in an uncomfortable position. Already on Sunday, those who flew away on Saturday at a distance to distant lands called themselves «confused» and demanded compensation from at least someone. Understanding who pays for «Saturday Night Air Fever»?
On the evening of Saturday, June 24, which will now be remembered by many for a long time, the prices for air tickets outside the Russian Federation rose sharply so that even the domestic tourism industry was forced to recognize such an increase as “indecent”. At the same time, for some reason, Yerevan showed the most vigorous growth: those who wished to urgently fly there on Saturday evening from Moscow paid 228 thousand rubles. one way. And already on Sunday morning the same flight costs only 26 thousand rubles. It's a shame, isn't it?
“We consider this normal,” representatives of the same carrier comment in an unofficial field, whose price rises sharply with general excitement, stands while there is demand for it, and then shamelessly falls, decreasing by almost 10 times. — It's a business. Those who have an emergency demand understand that they pay extra for the emergency provision of services. The last place from Moscow was sold at 17.40 for 228 thousand 717 rubles, that is, our services were more than in demand. Passengers who paid this price were not deceived by anyone, they knew what they were getting into. So they needed it for something.
Anxious Saturday evening, the prices for direct one-way flights from the Russian capital also jumped several times to Turkey (to Istanbul on Saturday — 61 thousand rubles, Sunday — 25 thousand rubles), to Uzbekistan (to Tashkent on Saturday evening — 40 thousand rubles, Sunday morning — 26.5 thousand rubles), to Kazakhstan (to Alma-Ata on Saturday evening — from 73,385 rubles, and on Sunday morning already 40,359 rubles). But the most offensive should be those who yesterday rushed to Astana for 150 thousand rubles, and today saw a flight there with a similarly inconvenient transfer for only 8 thousand rubles.
“I don’t regret it anyway,” a Muscovite, clearly upset yesterday, answers from Astana. — We still planned to one day move to warmer climes, but all cases were delayed for some reason. To finish this, to think it over … Yesterday, however, they quickly gathered, there was no time for reflection. So there is no bad without good. And they overpaid for tickets by such a grotesque number of times that this is clearly a sign for us: there is no turning back.
Approximately the same reason our citizens, on Saturday evening broke into Dubai for 150 thousand rubles. (on Sunday already 30 thousand rubles, and on Wednesday there is still a ticket even for only 14 thousand rubles with kopecks), to Bali for 300 thousand, etc. According to them, it's a shame, of course, but they gave, fortunately, not the last. And they wouldn’t have broken so abruptly, hadn’t hatched such plans for a long time. Circumstances simply accelerated their implementation.
“I wouldn’t call it panic,” comments psychotherapist Aliya Huseynova. “For these people, circumstances have become a catalyst that accelerated the implementation of their ideas into reality. Well, how, for example, a bather climbs a tower in a pool, about to jump. But upstairs he is suddenly afraid, although with his mind he understands: it is necessary. And here he stands, as the youth would say, and slows down. But if at that moment, say, a hungry tiger or a maniac is climbing the same tower — in general, a threat — then the person immediately makes a volitional decision. So these people did what they wanted for a long time, and got what they expected.
But there is another category of «yesterday departed»: those who fell on the planned vacation, but ahead of schedule. And now they have woken up and are demanding satisfaction from their travel agents. That is compensation.
“We, as they say, are only to blame for the fact that they want to eat,” the travel agent does not hide his irritation, whose clients were supposed to dignifiedly follow the tour to Kemer in a week or so, but suddenly broke into Antalya last night. “And now they are calling us and demanding a refund for the tour, which they now, it turns out, blew to compensate for the costs of yesterday's flight. And then yesterday they flew away for more than 100 thousand per person only to Antalya, and today they saw the same ticket for 11 thousand rubles. And, they say, the husband is in a pre-infarction state. But, firstly, no one drove them. Secondly, their entire week-long tour costs almost as much as one one-way ticket yesterday. Thirdly, the fact that they are now losing their tour is not the fault of the travel agency.
According to other representatives of the domestic tourism industry, they are now more concerned about the situation in the domestic tourism market, and yesterday's «indecent prices» existed only a few hours, so they didn’t have time to disrupt the plans of anyone, except for those who fled in fright. So we live and rest in the same mode.
—Those who gave 300,000 yesterday for a “van vey ticket” are the way to go,” a student from India, who is studying in Moscow, joyfully declares. — My uncle works in our airline and says that yesterday they made three months of revenue in one day in the Russian direction. We in India are always happy when everyone gets what they want: one wanted and flew away, the other worked and earned.