{"id":419634,"date":"2021-06-10T11:41:14","date_gmt":"2021-06-10T06:11:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=419634"},"modified":"2021-06-10T11:41:14","modified_gmt":"2021-06-10T06:11:14","slug":"govt-need-not-regulate-air-fares-capacity-any-more-indigo-ceo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/govt-need-not-regulate-air-fares-capacity-any-more-indigo-ceo\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt need not regulate air fares, capacity any more: IndiGo CEO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>IndiGo, India\u2019s largest carrier by market share, feels the government should not be in the business of regulating airline capacity and fares in the domestic sector any more now that Covid-19 cases are falling across the country and businesses are opening up , airline CEO Ronojoy Dutta told ET.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is a bigger issue of should the government be involved in this at all?\u201d said Dutta. \u201cEarly on, I was okay with it, because no one knew how the passengers would behave. It made sense during the first wave. This collaborative effort, I thought, was very helpful. And we fully supported it. (but)&#8230;at this point, I think the government really should get out of the way and I&#8217;m hopeful. So, I&#8217;m quite optimistic that come July they will be responsive and take the cap up,\u201d Dutta told ET.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IndiGo, India\u2019s largest carrier by market share, feels the government should not be in the business of regulating airline capacity and fares in the domestic sector any more now that Covid-19 cases are falling across the country and businesses are opening up , airline CEO Ronojoy Dutta told ET. \u201cThere is a bigger issue of should the government be involved in this at all?\u201d said Dutta. \u201cEarly on, I was okay with it, because no one knew how the passengers would behave. It made sense during the first wave. This collaborative effort, I thought, was very helpful. And we fully [&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-419634","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\/419634","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=419634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419634\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}