Easy Trip co-founder upbeat despite public listing at worst time for travel

Easy Trip Director Prashant Pitti is sanguine, even though his firm, which operates EaseMy­Trip.com, gets more than 90% of its revenue from selling airline tickets

Easy Trip Planners, the Indian travel search engine that postponed its initial public offering from last year to finally make its stock market debut earlier this month, couldn’t have timed things much worse.
 
Instead of domestic and international travel rebounding by now as hoped, an aggressive wave of coronavirus cases in the South Asian nation has sparked night-time curfews and fresh lockdowns in parts of the country. India’s vaccine roll out has also been slow — at this rate, it will take 2.4 years to cover 75 per cent of the population with a two-dose jab — prolonging the