{"id":400232,"date":"2021-02-12T11:49:15","date_gmt":"2021-02-12T06:19:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=400232"},"modified":"2021-02-12T11:49:15","modified_gmt":"2021-02-12T06:19:15","slug":"airfares-to-rise-as-price-bands-widen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/airfares-to-rise-as-price-bands-widen\/","title":{"rendered":"Airfares to rise as price bands widen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The government on Thursday extended its control to cap airfares till 31 March while also increasing the lower and upper fare caps by anywhere between 10-30%, a step which could potentially benefit the largely loss making domestic airline sector.<\/p>\n<p>For instance, for flights which are of duration of less than 40 minutes the lower fare cap has been increased to \u20b92,200 from \u20b92,000 whereas the cap on the highest chargeable fare under the same band has been increased to \u20b97,800 from \u20b96,000, said an order by the ministry of civil aviation (MoCA).<\/p>\n<p>Fare caps were put in place after domestic air operations were allowed to resume by the government in May last year following two months of grounding of flight operations to contain the covid-19 pandemic. Fare bands for flight tickets are currently classified under several bands (A to G), which are based on duration of flights, according to which maximum or minimum fares are charged.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government on Thursday extended its control to cap airfares till 31 March while also increasing the lower and upper fare caps by anywhere between 10-30%, a step which could potentially benefit the largely loss making domestic airline sector. For instance, for flights which are of duration of less than 40 minutes the lower fare cap has been increased to \u20b92,200 from \u20b92,000 whereas the cap on the highest chargeable fare under the same band has been increased to \u20b97,800 from \u20b96,000, said an order by the ministry of civil aviation (MoCA). Fare caps were put in place after domestic [&hellip;]<\/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":[184,141,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-400232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-hindustantimes","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400232","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=400232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400232\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}