Domestic airlines asked to share route-wise tariff in India

The Ministry of Civil Aviation in India has decided to monitor route-wise tariff of all domestic airlines across their network.

Published: 29 Nov 2010

The Ministry of Civil Aviation in India has decided to monitor route-wise tariff of all domestic airlines across their network.

According to an official statement, the Ministry stated that in view of insufficient and inadequate information available in the public domain on airfares and reports of scheduled domestic airlines charging excessively high tariff for various flights across their network during the high demand period, causing lot of inconvenience to the travelling public and drawing adverse comments on airfares, the Director General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has conveyed its decision to monitor fares to all airlines.

In order to maintain transparency in tariff publication, all the scheduled domestic airlines have been directed to ensure the following:

  • Furnish a copy of the route-wise tariff across its network in various fare categories, in the manner it is offered in the market, to DGCA on the first day of every calendar month. Any significant and noticeable change in the established tariff so filed with DGCA shall be reported to DGCA within 24 hours of effecting such changes.
  • Maintain all records pertaining to established tariff in its office.
  • Publish airfares on their websites or in daily newspapers.

Civil Aviation Minister Praful Patel said, “Airlines have been charging exorbitant prices on certain routes. This kind of predatory pricing cannot be justified.”

He added, “DGCA has special powers and they can certainly invoke them if the airlines do not act responsibly in the days to come. There can be certainly price bands which can be adopted by the airlines which could be the lower and higher bands but they cannot go for a free run and ask for any kind of fee from the customer at the last minute.”

 
 
 

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