IndiGo weighs charging fliers for checked bags as market heats up
IndiGo, one of Asia’s biggest budget carriers, is mulling charging passengers for checked-in luggage as the airline prepares for a potentially fierce price war in India’s cutthroat air travel market, which is showing signs of recovery following the worst of Covid.
IndiGo, operated by InterGlobe Aviation Ltd., didn’t implement the so-called unbundling of fares in February- just before a deadly wave of the pandemic hit India- even as Directorate General of Civil Aviation ruled that carriers can start offering zero baggage and no check-in baggage fares.
Regulatory caps on fares and capacity related to Covid prevented IndiGo from taking a decision at the time, chief executive officer Ronojoy Dutta said in an interview on Tuesday.
