{"id":419444,"date":"2021-06-09T11:55:34","date_gmt":"2021-06-09T06:25:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=419444"},"modified":"2021-06-09T12:44:12","modified_gmt":"2021-06-09T07:14:12","slug":"cci-closes-case-against-airlines-on-fare-spike-during-2016-jat-stir-finds-no-price-parallelism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/cci-closes-case-against-airlines-on-fare-spike-during-2016-jat-stir-finds-no-price-parallelism\/","title":{"rendered":"CCI closes case against airlines on fare spike during 2016 Jat stir; finds no price parallelism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a detailed probe that also analysed data of 338 flights, the Competition Commission has closed a case of alleged cartelisation among four Indian carriers with respect to air ticket prices on certain routes during the Jat agitation in 2016. The fair trade regulator began looking into the matter after receiving a complaint that air fares on certain routes had skyrocketed during the Jat agitation in February 2016. Subsequently, a detailed investigation was carried out by the watchdog&#8217;s Director General (DG) against IndiGo, SpiceJet, Air India and Go Air (now rebranded as Go First).<\/p>\n<p>Jet Airways NSE -1.98 % was excluded from the investigation purview as it had shuttered operations in April 2019 and went into insolvency proceedings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a detailed probe that also analysed data of 338 flights, the Competition Commission has closed a case of alleged cartelisation among four Indian carriers with respect to air ticket prices on certain routes during the Jat agitation in 2016. The fair trade regulator began looking into the matter after receiving a complaint that air fares on certain routes had skyrocketed during the Jat agitation in February 2016. Subsequently, a detailed investigation was carried out by the watchdog&#8217;s Director General (DG) against IndiGo, SpiceJet, Air India and Go Air (now rebranded as Go First). Jet Airways NSE -1.98 % was [&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-419444","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\/419444","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=419444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419444\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}