{"id":269589,"date":"2019-04-18T06:01:31","date_gmt":"2019-04-18T06:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=269589"},"modified":"2019-04-18T06:01:31","modified_gmt":"2019-04-18T06:01:31","slug":"dgca-asks-airlines-to-rein-in-fares-as-jet-crisis-takes-a-toll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/dgca-asks-airlines-to-rein-in-fares-as-jet-crisis-takes-a-toll\/","title":{"rendered":"DGCA asks airlines to rein in fares as Jet crisis takes a toll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: With Jet AirwaysNSE -26.49 % staring at shutdown due to financial problems, air fares in the country are rising due to reduced capacity in the aviation sector. <\/p>\n<p>Aviation secretary P S Kharola said: \u201cDGCA is monitoring fares on 40 sectors. Ten sectors have witnessed 10-30% hike in fares. The regulator has asked airlines to stabilise fares on a priority.\u201d He added that at least 10 more aircraft will be inducted by other airlines in a month. Many airlines are in talks with lessors of Jet\u2019s repossessed planes. \u201cAlmost 90% of Jet slots are unused at the moment and they are being allotted to others temporarily,\u201d top aviation bureaucrat said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: With Jet AirwaysNSE -26.49 % staring at shutdown due to financial problems, air fares in the country are rising due to reduced capacity in the aviation sector. Aviation secretary P S Kharola said: \u201cDGCA is monitoring fares on 40 sectors. Ten sectors have witnessed 10-30% hike in fares. The regulator has asked airlines to stabilise fares on a priority.\u201d He added that at least 10 more aircraft will be inducted by other airlines in a month. Many airlines are in talks with lessors of Jet\u2019s repossessed planes. \u201cAlmost 90% of Jet slots are unused at the moment and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[192,130,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-269589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269589","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\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269589\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}