DGCA and airlines clash over transparency in ticket pricing, cite commercial sensitivityDGCA and top Indian airlines are at odds over a notice requiring detailed data on airfares from the last two years. Airlines are concerned ...
24 Mar, 2025, 01.13 AM IST
Parliament passes Bharatiya Vayuyan Vidheyak, replacing 90-year-old Aircraft ActIndia's Parliament approved the Bharatiya Vayuyan Vidheyak 2024. This new law replaces the outdated 1934 Aircraft Act. The Rajya Sabha pass...
05 Dec, 2024, 09.03 PM IST
Airfares reach for the skies in monopoly, duopoly routesIndia has about 1,100 air routes, nearly 800 of which are monopoly routes. Among these, about 500 are operated by IndiGo only, about 200 by...
19 Dec, 2023, 08.52 AM IST
Average airfares on various domestic routes decline, shows DGCA dataThe average price of air tickets on various routes, including Delhi-Mumbai, has declined recently, according to data from the DGCA. There h...
30 Jun, 2023, 07.56 PM IST
Centre asks airlines to devise mechanism for reasonable pricing of air ticketsAirfares have jumped significantly on certain routes, especially in the wake of crisis-hit Go First suspending operations from May 3. Durin...
05 Jun, 2023, 10.50 PM IST
Removal of airfare caps will help in offering discounted ticket prices: IndiGoThe country's largest carrier IndiGo on Wednesday said the removal of airfare caps will help airlines to increase their passenger load fact...
31 Aug, 2022, 09.13 PM IST
Planes grounded, airfares soar up to 40% even in lean periodThe Mumbai-Chennai route reported the highest average rise of 39 per cent.
03 Apr, 2019, 11.46 AM IST
21 incidents of aircraft engine damage in 2017: GovernmentA total of 59 such incidents were reported in the last four years starting from 2014, according to the data provided by the Civil Aviation ...
26 Jul, 2018, 05.05 PM IST
Need to discuss with airlines on capping airfares: DGCADGCA is expected to release the air traffic data for the month of April along with the highest ticket bucket fare details, to look into the...
20 May, 2016, 03.29 AM IST
DGCA asked to analyse airfare movements in past 5 yearsThe government has asked DGCA to conduct a detailed study of airfares charged by domestic airlines in high density routes during the past f...
26 Jun, 2015, 09.15 PM IST
Fare and square: GoAir offers discount on tickets, lowest at Rs 999GoAir is offering one-way ticket prices as low as Rs 999 with a more than four months' validity period for travel across its network.
22 Mar, 2015, 01.34 AM IST
DGCA to keep eye on air faresAviation regulator DGCA has decided to keep an eye on air fares to check any "exorbitant" and "predatory" pricing by the domestic carriers.
13 Mar, 2015, 11.24 PM IST
IndiGo, Jet Airways charged higher fares in July: DGCANo-frill carrier IndiGo and Jet Airways have charged higher fares in several sectors than all other Indian carriers in July when the overal...
29 Aug, 2012, 04.17 PM IST
- Airfares up but Directorate General of Civil Aviation sees no alarming trend
Airfares have shot up in the past fortnight mainly on account of crisis in KFA but the DGCA today said the hike did not indicate any "alarm...
16 Jul, 2012, 09.50 PM IST
Domestic air fares soar as seats dry upWith the stricken Kingfisher forcing a drought of seats, it is no surprise that these days the only way to get a reasonable domestic fare i...
16 Jul, 2012, 08.03 AM IST
- CCI seeks airfare data to probe into cartelisation
Anti-trust watchdog Competition Commission of India (CCI) has sought data from the civil aviation ministry to probe whether airlines have f...
24 Dec, 2010, 02.22 AM IST
- Govt unhappy with flaws in airlines' tariff chart
Dissatisfied with the obscure format that the airlines have used for publishing airfares on websites, the government has intimated each air...
10 Dec, 2010, 07.10 AM IST