{"id":291442,"date":"2019-09-13T05:58:04","date_gmt":"2019-09-13T05:58:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=291442"},"modified":"2019-09-13T05:58:04","modified_gmt":"2019-09-13T05:58:04","slug":"airlines-govt-discuss-the-issue-of-competitive-fares","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/airlines-govt-discuss-the-issue-of-competitive-fares\/","title":{"rendered":"Airlines, govt discuss the issue of competitive fares"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Concerned over sustainability of airlines, the government on Thursday discussed the issue of competitive fares with domestic carriers. Government sources said the airlines raised the issue of aggressive pricing on several routes that becomes unsustainable. \u201cThey said the aggressive pricing, at times, impacts sustainability of airlines,\u201d said a government official present in the meeting.<\/p>\n<p>The official added that the government was looking into the issue. The issue of fares has been raised at a time when the industry is entering into third quarter, which is a high demand period for the airlines.<\/p>\n<p>Domestic airlines, which earned better yields during the first quarter on the back of grounding of Jet AirwaysNSE -1.71 %, have been complaining of low fares during the second quarter, which is also considered a non-peak period for the airlines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Concerned over sustainability of airlines, the government on Thursday discussed the issue of competitive fares with domestic carriers. Government sources said the airlines raised the issue of aggressive pricing on several routes that becomes unsustainable. \u201cThey said the aggressive pricing, at times, impacts sustainability of airlines,\u201d said a government official present in the meeting. The official added that the government was looking into the issue. The issue of fares has been raised at a time when the industry is entering into third quarter, which is a high demand period for the airlines. Domestic airlines, which earned better yields [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"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-291442","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\/291442","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\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=291442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291442\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}