{"id":450197,"date":"2021-11-17T09:59:22","date_gmt":"2021-11-17T04:29:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=450197"},"modified":"2021-11-17T13:18:32","modified_gmt":"2021-11-17T07:48:32","slug":"indigo-weighs-charging-fliers-for-checked-bags-as-market-heats-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/indigo-weighs-charging-fliers-for-checked-bags-as-market-heats-up\/","title":{"rendered":"IndiGo weighs charging fliers for checked bags as market heats up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>IndiGo, one of Asia\u2019s biggest budget carriers, is mulling charging passengers for checked-in luggage as the airline prepares for a potentially fierce price war in India\u2019s cutthroat air travel market, which is showing signs of recovery following the worst of Covid.<\/p>\n<p>IndiGo, operated by InterGlobe Aviation NSE -1.54 % Ltd., didn\u2019t implement the so-called unbundling of fares in February &#8212; just before a deadly wave of the pandemic hit the South Asian nation &#8212; even as India\u2019s Directorate General of Civil Aviation ruled that carriers can start offering zero baggage and no check-in baggage fares. Regulatory caps on fares and capacity related to Covid prevented IndiGo from taking a decision at the time, Chief Executive Officer Ronojoy Dutta said in an interview on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IndiGo, one of Asia\u2019s biggest budget carriers, is mulling charging passengers for checked-in luggage as the airline prepares for a potentially fierce price war in India\u2019s cutthroat air travel market, which is showing signs of recovery following the worst of Covid. IndiGo, operated by InterGlobe Aviation NSE -1.54 % Ltd., didn\u2019t implement the so-called unbundling of fares in February &#8212; just before a deadly wave of the pandemic hit the South Asian nation &#8212; even as India\u2019s Directorate General of Civil Aviation ruled that carriers can start offering zero baggage and no check-in baggage fares. Regulatory caps on fares and [&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-450197","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\/450197","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=450197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450197\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}