New Delhi: Flying in the country will cost more than Friday 13.
The airline ministry on Thursday night increases minimum and maximum domestic airplane ticket level of 12.5%.
The move came along with the government that allowed airlines to operate 7.5% more domestic flights, raised their capacity deployment from 65% to 72.5%.
The government has on June 1, 2021, riding domestic airplane tickets by 15% when cutting the flight into the country from the 80% pre-covid level of up to 50% at a deadly second wave height.
During a pandemic, the aircraft ministry has regulated domestic rates and capacity.
With that the second wave receded, domestic capacity would first increase to 65% in 5.
Now the distribution capacity and domestic airplane tickets have been carried out by 7.5% and 12.5% ​​respectively.
As a result, for example, a minimum of one-way minimum Delhi-Mumbai will rise from RS 4,700 to RS 5287.5 and the maximum tariff will rise from RS 13,000 to Rs 14,625 (extra tax).
This is the fourth increase with the price of airplane tickets this year due to the price of spiral jet fuel, the largest cost item for airlines – with the majority of Indian carriers struggling to survive in the absence of fiscal support from the government during a pandemic.
The range is for a one-way economic rate and does not include the cost of developing airport users, passenger security costs (Rs 150 for domestic) and GST.
When the domestic flight schedule was continued after a two-month break on May 25, 2020, the government had asked the airline to start with a third of the pre-covid time flight and also remained ribbons to ensure two things – passengers were not fought and financially fought.
A strong airline does not use predator rates (under fees) to accelerate weaker bankruptcy.
Based on flight time, there are seven categories: starting from flights under 40 minutes and up to 3-3.5 hours.
Some airlines and airport operators asked the government to free this sector from pandemic time control and allow market strength to decide on capacity and rates to help revive this sector.
The entire travel industry, including airlines and hotels, realizes that their survival rests on domestic travelers because international trips can take a long time to open both ways – Indian tourists are permitted in most countries and foreign tourists are allowed to enter India.
This fact is also recognized by government institutions.
For example, paper consulting the airport economic regulatory authority at Hyderabad Airport (HIAL) tariff said: “Authority has looked into the trend of traffic in HIAL and observed that traffic at Hyderabad airports was dominated by the domestic segment (around 81% of total traffic for five The last year is domestic passengers).
Authority argues that post-pandemic traffic recovery at Hyderabad airport will be led by the domestic segment and can recover at a faster growth rate than other large airports that tend to have a higher part of international traffic.
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