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Book Hyderabad flights 30 days out and pay 29% less than day-before fares, 15.3 points better than the national network average across 7 routes
Book Hyderabad flights 30 days out and pay 29% less than day-before fares, 15.3 points better than the national network average across 7 routes
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Across seven routes into Hyderabad, booking a flight 30 days before departure cost 29.0 per cent less than booking the day before, on the morning of 29 October 2026. That saving is 15.3 percentage points better than the network-wide figure of 13.6 per cent, making Hyderabad one of the domestic destinations where leaving a booking late carries a particularly steep cost. All seven of the seven tracked routes into the city showed cheaper fares at the 30-day mark than at the day-before mark.
The tracker uses a TOI-DPA Airline Price Index in which each route's day-before advertised fare is set at 100, and fares at other booking horizons are expressed against that baseline. A figure below 100 means the fare at that booking time was cheaper than the day-before fare on the same route. This compares what different departure dates cost when quoted at different booking times, not what a single flight cost as its own date approached. The percentages come from the index, which is built over a longer window than a single morning's capture.
For Hyderabad, the index stood at 73.6 at 90 days out, dipped to its lowest point of 69.2 at 60 days out, edged up slightly to 71.0 at 30 days out, then climbed to 87.9 at seven days out before reaching 100 at the day-before mark. That means the cheapest point across the booking curve, on this data, was 60 days before departure.
Across the broader network, the index moved from 88.1 at 90 days out to 85.9 at 60 days, 86.4 at 30 days, 90.6 at seven days and 100 the day before, a much flatter curve throughout.
The route where waiting hurts most is Kolkata to Hyderabad. At 30 days before departure, its index stood at 60.5, meaning the day-before fare was 65.4 per cent higher than the 30-day fare on that route. Kolkata to Hyderabad has six flights a day in this capture.
At the other end of the scale, Pune to Hyderabad showed the smallest penalty for late booking. Its 30-day index was 89.8, and the day-before fare was 11.3 per cent above the 30-day fare. Pune to Hyderabad has one flight a day in this capture.
The table below shows the number of daily flights on each of the seven routes into Hyderabad as recorded in this capture.
The network-wide 30-day saving of 13.6 per cent is itself meaningful, but Hyderabad’s 29.0 per cent figure is more than double that. The difference of 15.3 percentage points in Hyderabad’s favour means that, relative to the day-before price, fares into Hyderabad fall further when booked a month ahead than they do on the average domestic route. The data does not show why this gap exists; no cause can be drawn from the fare-time index alone.
The index points to 60 days before departure as the lowest-index booking time for Hyderabad routes in this data. At 30 days, the index is slightly higher than at 60 days but still well below the 90-day and seven-day marks.
For the Kolkata to Hyderabad route in particular, the gap between the 30-day and day-before fare is the largest of any tracked route into the city. For Pune to Hyderabad, the gap is the smallest.
These are advertised fares quoted on one morning; a fare visible at one booking time on 29 October 2026 can move on a different day.
These are advertised fares and medians across routes, not what any passenger finally paid, and a quote visible on one morning can move. All fares were captured on the morning of 29 October 2026. The data does not record which airline charged a fare, so it cannot say who sets these prices. Fare data was not available in this capture for Mumbai to Pune and Pune to Mumbai. The percentages come from the tracker’s fare-time index, which is built over a longer window than a single morning. This compares what different departure dates cost when quoted at different booking times, not what one flight cost as its date approached. Flight counts move between captures, so how busy a route is should be read as approximate.
The contrast between Hyderabad’s booking curve and the network average is the clearest signal in this data: the city’s index drops to 69.2 at 60 days out while the network equivalent reaches only 85.9, a gap that holds at every horizon measured. That gap is sharpest on Kolkata to Hyderabad, where a day-before fare ran 65.4 per cent above the 30-day fare, and narrowest on Pune to Hyderabad at 11.3 per cent, showing that even within the same destination the penalty for waiting varies considerably by origin.
TOI-DPA Airline Price Index is a joint initiative of The Times of India and Decimal Point Analytics.
