chennai air fares from chennai to other metros especially to mumbai and delhi have shot up and are close to 10000 for travel till the middle of april as domestic and international travel volume picks up pace for summer holidays the ticket prices have increased at least by 3000 to 4000 when compared to precovid fares oneway fare to mumbai is currently 8500 and for delhi has touched 11000 tickets to bengaluru start at 4000 which used to be in the range of 2500 to 3000 in precovid daysas medical tourism has resumed after pandemic restrictions were done away with the air fare on kolkatachennaikolkata route has also increased from 6500 to 12000 tickets to goa and srinagar from chennai are already selling at above 14000there is also an uptick in domestic leisure travel sriharan balan of madura travels said that domestic airfares are high because of group bookings for leisure travel and due to the number of people flying to mumbai and delhi to fly abroadseveral groups of people who have booked tickets for destinations like delhi is high business travel is already high travel and tour operators have started to block seats well in advance he addeda majority of ticket demand on the mumbai and delhi routes is from international travellers flying to gateway airports to board connecting flights for foreign destinations this traffic is driven by resumption of scheduled international flights as chennai airport does not have adequate flights to europe and the us people prefer to fly via mumbai or delhi said an airport official airlines too have added more domestic flights from chennai airport there are around 20 flights to mumbai and 19 flights to delhi per day because these are major hubs for international travel the airport handles around 40000 domestic passengers per day tourism departments of different states have also stepped up promotion in chennai to attract travellers in summer monthsthe tourism departments of states such as goa odisha karnataka himachal jammu and kashmir are promoting their destinations at the travel and tourism fair in chennai to attract travellers representatives from 13 states are participating in the fairviswajit routray joint director odisha tourism said that a lot of people visit puri bhubaneshwar and other destinations in the state from chennai tamil nadu is among the top five states that attracts the maximum number of visitors to odisha