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India’s youngest airline adds flights while Iran war crimps rivalsIndia's youngest airline, Akasa Air, is emerging as a significant competitor, expanding capacity by 13.2% while major carriers like IndiGo ...
Summer travelers who relied on Spirit Airlines may struggle to find budget alternativesSpirit Airlines has ceased operations, leaving many Americans struggling to find affordable flights. Rising jet fuel costs, inflation, and ...
Civil Aviation Ministry to remove fare caps imposed on airlines August 31 onwardsThe govt, in a rare move, had regulated fares by imposing a minimum and maximum band based on the flight's duration to prevent ticket price...
Airfare bands protecting interests of airlines, passengers, says Aviation Minister Scindia"The fare bands serve the dual purpose of protecting the interests of the travellers as well as of the airlines, and have been revised from...
Relaxation on domestic flights fare caps will depend on coronavirus situation, demand: Singh"Under normal circumstances, airfares are neither established nor regulated by the government. However, due to the unprecedented circumstan...
Average fares of AI, United, Lufthansa on air bubble flights comparable to pre-pandemic level: GovtThe Centre had on December 1 decided not to resume scheduled international flights from December 15, less than a week after announcing the ...
India doubles flights to the UK from Monday; move will help reduce faresThis decision for increase in number of flights was taken after minimum one-way economy class fares on Delhi-London flights during August t...
Flying to cost more as government hikes minimum domestic fares by 5%"It has been decided to extend both the 80% capacity cap and the fare bands by a month till April-end. However, due to rising cost of jet f...
Aviation Minister Puri confident of air travel reaching pre-COVID levels by year-end or early next yearTwo days or three days ago, I think just before Diwali, we carried 225,000 and with a scale at which we are opening up in a calibrated mann...
AirAsia India offers 50,000 seats without base fares to armed forcesThe AirAsia RedPass will be valid for a one-way flight for which the reservation is required to be made at least 21 days prior to the date ...
People must not pay more fares when booking tickets via travel agents on Vande Bharat flights: GovtThe aviation sector has been significantly impacted due to the travel restrictions imposed in India and other countries in view of the coro...
Can't expect normal free market principles in crisis situation: CCI chief on capping of airfares"As far pricing caps put in place by the civil aviation ministry, I can only say that these are not normal times and it would be inappropri...
Airlines cut fares to help boost May traffic: IATADomestic passenger traffic rose 30% globally in May from a very low base in April, when much of the industry was brought to a near-standsti...
AirAsia India offers 50,000 seats without base fare to doctors amid pandemicUnder the RedPass initiative, AirAsia India will give away 50,000 seats without any base fare on flights across its domestic sectors to doc...
Air passenger traffic may witness 30% negative growth this fiscal: CARE RatingsAll domestic and international commercial passenger flights are suspended since March 25 for the lockdown till May 3, as of now. Airfares a...
GoAir extends ticket credit scheme for passengers till April 30India is under a 21-day lockdown till April 14 to combat the coronavirus; all domestic and international commercial passenger flights stand...
Former Vistara executive Sanjiv Kapoor joins GoAir in advisory roleKapoor joins the Wadia group owned airline at a time when the aviation industries in India and the world are struggling in the wake of the ...
Cancel flight ticket, or reschedule? The best way to readjust your travel plans in times of coronavirusAll domestic airlines, including government-owned Air India, have announced a waiver on re-booking charges in case a customer does not want...
Covid-19 pushes airlines to their worst crisis, only 25 flyers on 256-seater flightThe cheapest fare on direct flights to London from Mumbai was Rs 53,000 and from Delhi was Rs 58,000.
Coronavirus outbreak: IndiGo & AI waives change and cancellation fee in flights connecting ChinaIndiGo currently runs two daily direct flights to China, one is on Delhi-Chengdu route and another is on Kolkata-Guangzhou route.It will st...