{"id":25486,"date":"2015-07-24T10:24:25","date_gmt":"2015-07-24T10:24:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=25486"},"modified":"2015-08-21T11:23:56","modified_gmt":"2015-08-21T11:23:56","slug":"exorbitant-domestic-airfare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/exorbitant-domestic-airfare\/","title":{"rendered":"Exorbitant Domestic Airfare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amidst complaints of exorbitant airfare and cancellation charges, the government has asked the aviation regulator &#8211; Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) &#8211; to conduct a study of airfares charged by domestic scheduled airlines in high density routes during the past five years.<\/p>\n<p>DGCA had conducted a similar exercise for the calendar year 2014 and on June 2, 2015 released its report titled as \u201cAnalysis of airfares of Scheduled domestic airlines on select sectors during the year 2014.\u201d But, for some strange reason, instead of capping the tariff, DGCA gave a clean chit stating, \u201cThe average fare is closer to the minimum fare being offered by the airlines indicating that most of the tickets sold by the airlines are not at exorbitant price.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/livemedia.press\/subscribe\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/read-more.gif\" alt=\"http:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/read-more.gif\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amidst complaints of exorbitant airfare and cancellation charges, the government has asked the aviation regulator &#8211; Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) &#8211; to conduct a study of airfares charged by domestic scheduled airlines in high density routes during the past five years. DGCA had conducted a similar exercise for the calendar year 2014 and on June 2, 2015 released its report titled as \u201cAnalysis of airfares of Scheduled domestic airlines on select sectors during the year 2014.\u201d But, for some strange reason, instead of capping the tariff, DGCA gave a clean chit stating, \u201cThe average fare is closer to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25487,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-magazinenews"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25486\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}