{"id":429831,"date":"2021-08-10T08:18:05","date_gmt":"2021-08-10T02:48:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=429831"},"modified":"2021-08-10T08:26:58","modified_gmt":"2021-08-10T02:56:58","slug":"ensure-fares-on-metasearch-not-higher-than-ticket-prices-on-websites-dgca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/ensure-fares-on-metasearch-not-higher-than-ticket-prices-on-websites-dgca\/","title":{"rendered":"Ensure fares on metasearch not higher than ticket prices on websites: DGCA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aviation regulator DGCA has asked airlines to ensure that the airfares on metasearch engine websites are not higher than the ones displayed on the carriers&#8217; websites, a senior official said on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Various metasearch engine websites such as Google and Skyscanner operate in India.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, Sanjeev Gupta, Secretary, Inter-State Council Secretariat, Union Home Ministry, had complained on Twitter that an economy-class ticket on British Airways&#8217;s Delhi-London flight for August 26 was priced Rs 3.95 lakh.<\/p>\n<p>However, the Ministry of Civil Aviation clarified on Sunday that an economy-class ticket on Delhi-London flight has been available for between Rs 1.03 lakh and Rs 1.47 lakh during August.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aviation regulator DGCA has asked airlines to ensure that the airfares on metasearch engine websites are not higher than the ones displayed on the carriers&#8217; websites, a senior official said on Monday. Various metasearch engine websites such as Google and Skyscanner operate in India. On Saturday, Sanjeev Gupta, Secretary, Inter-State Council Secretariat, Union Home Ministry, had complained on Twitter that an economy-class ticket on British Airways&#8217;s Delhi-London flight for August 26 was priced Rs 3.95 lakh. However, the Ministry of Civil Aviation clarified on Sunday that an economy-class ticket on Delhi-London flight has been available for between Rs 1.03 lakh [&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":[135,167,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-429831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-civil-aviation-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429831","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=429831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429831\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}