Govt should consider increasing upper caps on domestic airfares amid rising fuel prices: IndiGo CEO

The Ministry of Civil Aviation should consider increasing the upper limits on domestic airfares as the rising fuel prices has become a “real problem”, IndiGo CEO Ronojoy Dutta has said.

Moreover, India’s largest airline IndiGo is likely to introduce a business class in certain international flights as it is looking to expand to regions like Europe, Africa and Southeast Asia, he said in an interview to PTI.

The ministry had imposed lower and upper limits on domestic airfares based on flight duration when services were resumed on May 25, 2020, after a two-month lockdown due to the pandemic. For example, airlines currently cannot charge a passenger less than Rs 2,900 (excluding GST) and more than Rs 8,800 (excluding GST) on flights with duration of less than 40 minutes.