My most expensive and cheapest flight tickets till date!

What is the max amount you’ve spent on a flight ticket? For me the highest ever amount spent on a single ticket has been less than 50000 INR, even for ultra long haul flights.

Criteria I've used is as below

  • Work trips paid by someone else not included: I’ve had a few trips to Chile, USA and Europe at much higher prices but those were business trips paid by my employer, hence I have not counted them here.
  • Per PNR, per Person is considered, return or one way (one trip may include several separate flight bookings- they are not clubbed).

#

Date

To where?

Airline

Amount in INR

Amount per km

1

April-May 2019

Chennai- IAD (Washington DC) & back

Qatar

48250

1.75

2

Feb-March 2023

Mumbai-Paris return

Lufthansa-Swiss

38000

2.71

3

Sep-Oct 2019

Chennai-London Gatwick return

Qatar

35450

2.16

4

2024

Mumbai-Taipei return

Singapore Air

34986

3.47

5

2023

Mumbai-Busan return

Singapore Air

29556

2.57

6

Nov 2018

Chennai-Auckland

Air Asia X

22500

0.97

7

2016


Chennai Melbourne Return


Air Asia X

20,000

1.13

9

2018

Chennai Gold Coast Return

Air Asia X


1.1


It was amazing to fly for less than a rupee per km to Auckland. Hope those good old days of extreme low fares will be back again


Before you wonder how flying could be so cheap on a per km basis, you need to understand the following

  • Not all seats on a flight are sold at the same price. I would have booked 3-6-9 or even 12 months in advance to grab the cheapest of the seats while other passengers who book late would have paid more. Some of the business trips I had taken were costing 1 to 1.5 lakhs because of last minute booking.

  • Most of these were during a sale or with conditions like no refund, no change. So I took a bigger risk

  • Air Asia is a low cost carrier- bag, meals, everything is extra. It was tough to manage an ultra long haul without food- I have spent a few thousand extra on food inflight or at the airport on such flights. I have mastered how to manage without a checked bag, so that part is not a concern for me.


Cheapest flights!


Cheapest flights are hard to recall, as there have been many and I’ve not been keeping track. Below are some of my cheapest flight tickets.

#

Date

To where?

Airline    Amount

1

Sep 2020

(Couldn’t travel due to covid)

Kuala Lumpur-Penang & Back

Details

Air Asia

24 MYR or 400 INR

2

Sep 2020

(Couldn’t travel due to covid)

AMD-KUL one way

Details

Air Asia

INR 502

3

2014

Chennai Goa return

https://www.enidhi.net/2014/04/spicejet-cheaper-than-train-ticket-sale.html 

Spicejet

700 INR

4

Sep 2019

London SouthEnd to Dublin oneway

Ryanair

800 INR

5

Sep 2015

CPH-Kaunas (Lithuania return

Ryanair

1500 INR

6


Chennai Vijayawada return

Spicejet

1800 INR

7


Chennai Madurai return

Spicejet

1800 INR

8


Manila Palawan    

Air Asia








Feb 2011Chennai-Colombo returnSpicejet4200 INR

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