Days after EaseMyTrip announced suspending all flight and hotel bookings for Turkey and Azerbaijan amid its call to side with Pakistan amid tensions, the co-founder of the online travel platform, Prashant Pitti while talking to media, informed that in recent days, the platform witnessed massive travel cancellations for the two countries.
“For Turkey, we have seen cancellations of about 22 percent, and for Azerbaijan, it is above 30 percent. Last year, 3.8 lakh people travelled to either Azerbaijan or Turkey from India," the co-founder of EaseMyTrip said.
Further informing about the loss to Turkey and Azerbaijan with Indians cancelling their visits, Pitti informed that if you take a modest 60,000-70,000 rupees per passenger spent, it equates to somewhere around 2,500 to 3,000 crores, which was spent by Indians in these countries.
“Now, this money will probably come back to us in the form of these countries choosing to give their arsenals, their weaponry to Pakistan and hitting back on them, which is why it is important for us Indians to know where to spend our money," EaseMyTrip’s Prashant Pitti said while taking a firm stand against the countries supplying weapons to Pakistan.
In addition to EaseMyTrip, Ixigo CEO Aloke Bajpai also on Saturday announced that the platform is suspending all flight and hotel bookings for Turkey, China and Azerbaijan. “Enough is Enough! Blood and Bookings won’t flow together," he said.
India is taking a firm stand against the countries siding with Pakistan amid rising tensions between India and Pakistan following the April 22 Pahalgam terror attack. Turkey and Azerbaijan are facing a massive boycott in the country, with prominent Indian businesses and even politicians voicing support.
This came after Turkey not only sided with Pakistan, while the rest of the world was condemning the heinous terror attack in J&K’s Pahalgam, but Turkish Songar drones were also used by the Pakistan Army to target India’s military bases and civilian infrastructure.
