The prices of airplane tickets have soared by 97.09% in a year, according to a data released by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS).
The document titled: “Transport Fare Watch (November 2022),” was released by the NBS on Monday in Abuja. It said that the average airfare rose from N37,022.97 in November 2021 to N73,267.57 in November 2022.
It also captured how the average fare paid by commuters for bus journeys within the city per drop increased by 0.12 per cent in November 2022 on a month-on-month from N636.30 in October 2022 to N637.10.
On a year-on-year, the NBS noted that the average fare paid by commuters for bus journeys within the city per drop rose by 42.69 per cent from N446.50 in November 2021.
The data added that the average fare paid by commuters for bus journey intercity per drop rose to N3,848.48 in November 2022, noting an increase of 0.07 per cent on a month-on-month compared to the value of N3,845.81 in October 2022.
