The main US airlines have increased the capacity of flights from Kansas City and Philadelphia to New Orleans before the Super Bowl between the Chiefs and the Eagles, but the prices of the tickets are shooting, which leads to experts to recommend reserving flights now to avoid the highest costs.
Southwest Airlines is adding 31 direct flights, a total of 5,425 seats, between Louis Armstrong International Airport in New Orleans, Kansas City and Philadelphia.
This includes 15 flights during the two days before the game day, on February 9, and 16 flights back the day after the event.
Traditional American Airlines airlines, United Airlines and Delta Air Lines are adding a combined total of 31 direct flights between Kansas City and Philadelphia towards New Orleans, round trip.
Jetblue Airways is adding nine flights between Newark International and John F. Kennedy International airports in the New York area, and New Orleans.
Frontier Airlines has added two flights: one from Philadelphia to New Orleans on February 8 and the return flight on February 10.
Direct flight tickets to New Orleans from national airports already have an average price of $ 979 per round trip ticket, significantly higher than the average national flights, which is 294 per round trip ticket, according to the platform Hopper trips.
The Kansas City Chiefs and the Philadelphia Eagles advanced the Super Bowl during the weekend. After Sunday’s championships, ticket prices for flights from Kansas City and Philadelphia to New Orleans fired, according to the Hopper Great Game Guide.
The impact on prices is worse for Chiefs fans, who are seeing an average of $ 1,064 per round trip ticket to New Orleans, while Eagles fans are paying an average of 224 per round trip ticket lap. The cost of round trip flights more than doubles if the return is Monday. The most economical combination, according to Hopper, is to leave on Saturday, February 8 and return on Wednesday, February 12.
Great figure
11,498 seats. That is the additional capacity that the “great” airlines are adding from Kansas City and Philadelphia to New Orleans during the weekend of the Super Bowl. Southwest is contributing to 47%of that capacity, adding almost as many seats as American (25%), United (16%) and Delta (12%) together.
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Surprising data
The resale of Vivid Seats tickets says that the assistance of the Philadelphia Eagles fans is greater than that of the Chiefs fans. The last time both teams met at the Super Bowl, two years ago, Vivid Seats reported a 62% audience division in favor of Eagles compared to 38% of Chiefs.
In addition, during this year’s regular season, the Eagles tied with the San Francisco 49ers in the highest average of visitor public in foreign stadiums, with an average of 46% of the attendees this season.
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This article was originally published by Forbes US
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