Online travel company: Flight bookings from the UAE fall 20 per cent year on year – The National

Online travel company: Flight bookings from the UAE fall 20 per cent year on year – The National

Online travel company: Flight bookings from the UAE fall 20 per cent year on year. - Travel to neighbouring Oman is also slowing, with flight bookings down 28 per cent.. - India has recorded a drop in demand, with flight bookings from the UAE down 27 per cent, according to the travel company.. The travel company recorded a 23-per-cent increase in cancellations in the last week of February and first week of March, when compared to the rate in January.. "Usually we see a spike in bookings to the Philippines around February and March.. It also seems that the longer the crisis lasts, the more travellers are opting to cancel rather than delay travel plans.. "We haven't seen drastic increases in rebookings, maybe because people are still a bit apprehensive and want to see how everything pans out before making travel plans," he said.. According to Cleartrip, there has been a 27-per-cent drop in local hotel bookings compared to the same holiday period last year.. With the drop in demand for travel has come a dip in ticket prices for flights to some destinations.. Cleartrip recorded a 15-per-cent drop in average posted fares over the past two weeks, versus the