Naidu reviews airlines' performance; asks them to ensure reasonable fares in festive seasonCivil Aviation Minister K Rammohan Naidu met with airline representatives. He reviewed their operational and technical performance. The min...
10 Oct, 2025, 10.37 PM IST
Parliamentary panel suggests AI-driven stringent airfare regulation mechanism, more teeth to DGCA on pricingA parliamentary panel suggests an AI-powered system, 'AirPrice Guardian,' to monitor and regulate airfare trends. The proposed framework ai...
26 Mar, 2025, 09.56 PM IST
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
120 more locations under UDAN scheme, 4 cr people to be air connected in next 10 yrs: NaiduThe Indian government plans to add 120 new locations through the UDAN scheme over the next decade, aiming to connect 4 crore more people. T...
17 Mar, 2025, 07.17 PM IST
Govt says it generally refrains from regulating airfares but remains vigilantThe Indian government is monitoring airfares but generally avoids regulation to maintain market competition. Increased aircraft capacity an...
16 Dec, 2024, 09.01 PM 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 This new law replaces the outdated 1934 Aircraft Act.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
Govt says airlines sensitised to exercise moderation in pricing of air ticketsThe civil aviation ministry advised airlines to self-regulate and exercise moderation in pricing air tickets, a matter raised in the Rajya ...
29 Jul, 2024, 08.45 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
Scindia discusses airfares, ways to improve airlines' on-time performanceCivil aviation minister Jyotiraditya Scindia reviewed the self-monitoring mechanism for airfares by individual airlines and emphasized keep...
12 Dec, 2023, 10.26 PM IST
'Covid destroyed financial viability of airlines but..': Civil Aviation Minister responds on air price hike issue in Lok SabhaCivil Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia addressed the issue of air price hike in the Lok Sabha, highlighting the losses faced by airli...
07 Dec, 2023, 03.46 PM IST
Number of air passengers has gone up from 6 crore in 2014 to 14.5 crore now: Scindia in Lok SabhaCivil Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia informed the Lok Sabha that air passenger numbers have risen from six crore in 2014 to 14.5 cr...
07 Dec, 2023, 01.55 PM 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
- Significant rise in domestic air fare between April, May: DGCA
With the DGCA analysing air fare data of all airlines during the period, there appeared to be a "significant rise" in fares over the same p...
09 Jun, 2012, 07.58 PM IST
- DGCA instructed to rationalise tariffs of private airlines: Patel
Union Civil Aviation Minister Praful Patel on Sunday said the Director General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has been instructed to monitor and ...
09 Jan, 2011, 06.41 PM IST
- Airlines propose massive hike in fares, DGCA to take a call
If approved, passengers will have to pay Rs 10,500 for a Delhi-Chandigarh or Chennai-Coimbatore flight & Rs 40,000 on Delhi-Bangalore or De...
03 Dec, 2010, 07.07 AM IST
- DGCA set to monitor fares on regular basis
The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has set up a tariff analysis unit to monitor route-wise tariff across airlines' networks o...
02 Dec, 2010, 08.02 AM IST
- Why high airfares? Airlines to reply to DGCA by tomorrow
Indian airlines are to submit their responses by tomorrow to aviation regulator DGCA explaining the abrupt hike in airfares even during non...
30 Nov, 2010, 08.17 PM IST