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change their travel plans, either choosing closer and cheaper destinations or not planning a trip at all. ### Higher ticket prices may be here to stay Airline tickets might not return to their prewar prices anytime
changes in their lifestyles and plans: “In the current situation, we must place great emphasis on saving foreign exchange.” ## What’s the ‘current situation’ Modi was talking about? Simply put, Modi was referring
airlines, found [rising fuel prices](https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/may/06/totally-grounded-how-the-jet-fuel-crisis-could-change-our-summer-holidays-and-world-history) had contributed to businesses raising prices at the fastest pace in more than three years in April. Nearly six in 10 firms surveyed by S&P Global