A Plane Ticket Costs 180,000, London to China Flight Prices Soar Over Ten Times, Yet Still Hard to Find
Due to the global spread of the special epidemic, many international routes have been temporarily suspended. Recently, everyone's friends circle has been flooded with posters like this: the ticket price for a Boeing 787 business jet from London via Geneva and returning to Shanghai is starting from 180,000, and only 40 seats are available on the entire aircraft, with only 28 seats for sale.
As soon as this poster was released, it immediately sparked a lot of discussion. Such a high price is not something that most families can afford; the price of a ticket is almost equivalent to the price of a small car. However, what no one expected was that within two hours of the poster being released, over 100 booking requests were received, which was a truly frantic ticket rush.
However, compared to such luxurious business jet services, many overseas Chinese and students still choose economy class or business class tickets. But these tickets are more than ten times more expensive, and they are also difficult to book; turning on 1-4 sets of aircraft is also a good option.
Now, on some ticketing websites, you can find that the tickets from London to Shanghai are basically between 10,000 and 60,000 yuan, and since March 14th, they have been rising for three days. It's really rare; last year at this time, the average price of tickets from London to Shanghai was about 1100 yuan, and this year it has reached more than 12,000 yuan – a tenfold increase!
Moreover, all direct flights from the UK to China have been cancelled, which means that you must at least transfer once to arrive in China, which may take two or three days. And during these days, you would be in crowded areas on the plane or at the airport, which is a high-risk area for infection. This undoubtedly added more difficulties to returning home.
Now, many British universities have announced class suspensions, and as overseas Chinese students and more and more cases of illness are seen, many are becoming uneasy. At home, parents are also worried about their children in Britain and have begun to buy tickets to return home, which has further driven up ticket prices, and tickets are scarce!
However, it must be reminded of overseas Chinese students and overseas Chinese, although China is currently considered safer, long-haul flights and transfer times are also very long, and this period is a very high-risk period. Whether to return home needs to be carefully weighed, and self-isolation at home is also a good choice.
