Are you in the habit of booking your flights at the last minute or do you plan well ahead?
A new report by Cleartrip suggests that more than 30 per cent of people in the UAE make their bookings within a week of departure, while around 3 per cent do it on the same day of the trip.
The study also found that around a third of us travelled more than once during the first half of this year.
Cleartrip's Chief Business Officer, Amit Taneja, highlights some of the most trending travel destinations during the period.
Meanwhile, air fares in the region continued to increase during the first half of 2019, after a year of fluctuations.
The average fare in the UAE rose by 10 per cent, while Oman saw the highest increase of 28 per cent, and Kuwait witnessed the lowest hike in the region at 4 per cent.
Taneja says the hike was more visible on certain routes.
Archer Aviation has conducted test flights of its Midnight electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) air taxi services at Al Bateen Executive Airport in Abu Dhabi, marking a key milestone for its planned commercial deployment in the UAE and the expansion of its operations in the region.
US and India trade negotiators are pushing to try to land a tariff-reducing deal ahead of President Donald Trump's July 9 negotiating deadline, but disagreements over US dairy and agriculture remained unresolved, sources familiar with the talks said.
A cyber hacker broke into a database containing the personal information of millions of customers, Qantas said, in Australia's biggest breach in years and a setback for an airline rebuilding trust after a reputational crisis.
Emirates has officially launched its daily services to Shenzhen, marking the airline’s fourth gateway in the Chinese mainland after Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou.
Every weekday afternoon, Helen Farmer will help you to navigate the highs and lows of life in the UAE. Stay up to date with what’s happening and where to go.
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