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Check abnormal surge in airfares: Jyotiraditya Scindia to airlines
Check abnormal surge in airfares: Jyotiraditya Scindia to airlines
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"It's not high prices, it's real prices," Fernandes said. "I think the fares you're seeing now are really what you should have seen in 2019 as well"
Usage of slots for more than 80 per cent of time in the previous winter season decides whether an airline would get the same slot again in the current winter season
Sixty-five per cent of surveyed passengers want the civil aviation ministry to reintroduce a cap on airfares, according to a survey carried out by LocalCircles
A recent survey by LocalCircles reveals that soaring airfares have worried travellers and two out of three fliers want the government to bring back an upper and lower limit on air-fares
The country's largest carrier IndiGo on Wednesday said the removal of airfare caps will help airlines to increase their passenger load factors by offering discounted fares. With the government doing away with the airfare limits after more than two years, travel agents are also optimistic that ticket prices are likely to go down in the coming months, especially due to the upcoming festival season. The country's second-largest airline Vistara said it will continue to have a balanced pricing strategy. The upper and lower limits on airfares on the basis of flight duration were put in place back in May 2020 after the resumption of scheduled domestic air services. Scheduled domestic flights were suspended for two months starting from late March 2020 in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. On August 10, the civil aviation ministry announced that airfare caps will be removed from August 31 amid the domestic air traffic being on the recovery path as well as a relative decline in jet fuel .
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The government announced to lift the cap on airfares after over two years. Does it mean that we will have to shell out more for flight tickets? Will it lead to a price war? Let's find out
The Railways on Monday said it has cancelled 587 trains due to the agitations.
In the nine hikes since January 1, the jet fuel prices have been increased by Rs 49,017.8 per kl or nearly 55%
Seats are difficult to get on flights to Europe and US and those that are available fall in the higher slabs
The govt has set minimum and maximum fares for domestic flights and these are applicable upto a fortnight. For booking beyond 15 days airlines are free to set their own fares.
The domestic air passenger traffic increased around 67 per cent year-on-year in October
Anshu Jalora and Vijeta Soni's firm Sciative uses AI, automation and big data to set movie ticket prices, and bus and airline fares, based on the demand curve for these services and products
The lower and upper limits on airfares will remain for 15 days at any given time and the airlines will be free to charge without any limits from the 16th day onwards, the Civil Aviation Ministry said.
They have also urged the government to resume international air travel without limiting capacity
Spike in airfares seen in several other routes connecting India, Mumbai-Moscow doubles in about a month