{"id":292952,"date":"2019-09-21T05:41:18","date_gmt":"2019-09-21T05:41:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=292952"},"modified":"2019-09-21T05:41:18","modified_gmt":"2019-09-21T05:41:18","slug":"government-to-set-up-mechanism-to-monitor-airfares","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/government-to-set-up-mechanism-to-monitor-airfares\/","title":{"rendered":"Government to set up mechanism to monitor airfares"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI : Civil aviation minister Hardeep Singh Puri on Friday said that the government has ordered the civil aviation ministry and the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) to set up a mechanism to monitor airfares on a regular basis.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We will use the data to hold regular discussions with airlines,&#8221; Puri told reporters during a briefing.<\/p>\n<p>However, the government will not interfere in the pricing mechanism of the airlines.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is only to monitor on ongoing basis how airlines pricing is working and if we can get some learning from that and then discuss with airlines,&#8221; Puri said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI : Civil aviation minister Hardeep Singh Puri on Friday said that the government has ordered the civil aviation ministry and the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) to set up a mechanism to monitor airfares on a regular basis. &#8220;We will use the data to hold regular discussions with airlines,&#8221; Puri told reporters during a briefing. However, the government will not interfere in the pricing mechanism of the airlines. &#8220;It is only to monitor on ongoing basis how airlines pricing is working and if we can get some learning from that and then discuss with airlines,&#8221; Puri said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[188,139,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-292952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292952","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292952\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}