{"id":429820,"date":"2021-08-09T15:49:12","date_gmt":"2021-08-09T10:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=429820"},"modified":"2021-08-09T15:49:12","modified_gmt":"2021-08-09T10:19:12","slug":"aviation-ministry-issues-clarification-on-delhi-london-trip-fares","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/aviation-ministry-issues-clarification-on-delhi-london-trip-fares\/","title":{"rendered":"Aviation Ministry issues clarification on Delhi-London trip fares"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, there have been media reports which say that ticket prices from Delhi to London have been on an all-time high. However, the Aviation Ministry has issued a clarification regarding the same.<\/p>\n<p>An economy-class ticket for a flight from Delhi to London has been available for between \u20b91.03 lakh and \u20b91.47 lakh during August, the Ministry of Civil Aviation said on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There are media reports claiming India-UK one-way economy class fares have touched \u20b94 lakh. These reports have no proven basis. The veracity of Shri Sanjeev Gupta&#8217;s claim has been thoroughly checked by DGCA,&#8221; the ministry said on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The fares offered on the Delhi-London sector (Economy class) range from \u20b91.03-1.21 lakhs for Indian carriers and \u20b91.28-1.47 lakhs for UK carriers for travel during August 2021,&#8221; it added.<\/p>\n<p>This clarification came after a complaint was made by the Secretary of the Inter-State Council Secretariat in the Union Home Ministry, Sanjeev Gupta. He put out a tweet saying that an economy-class ticket on British Airways&#8217;s Delhi-London flight for August 26 was priced at \u20b93.95 lakh.<\/p>\n<p>He said that an economy-class ticket on a Delhi-London flight of Vistara and Air India for the same date was also priced between \u20b91.2 lakh and \u20b92.3 lakh amid college admission time in the UK.<\/p>\n<p>The Secretary added that he has &#8220;alerted&#8221; P S Kharola, Union Civil Aviation Secretary regarding this.<\/p>\n<p>Even though there have been caps on domestic airfares in India since May last year, this has not been the case for international airfares.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, there have been media reports which say that ticket prices from Delhi to London have been on an all-time high. However, the Aviation Ministry has issued a clarification regarding the same. An economy-class ticket for a flight from Delhi to London has been available for between \u20b91.03 lakh and \u20b91.47 lakh during August, the Ministry of Civil Aviation said on Sunday. &#8220;There are media reports claiming India-UK one-way economy class fares have touched \u20b94 lakh. These reports have no proven basis. The veracity of Shri Sanjeev Gupta&#8217;s claim has been thoroughly checked by DGCA,&#8221; the ministry said on Twitter. [&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":[229],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-429820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429820","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=429820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429820\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}