{"id":450357,"date":"2021-11-18T08:46:28","date_gmt":"2021-11-18T03:16:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=450357"},"modified":"2021-11-18T09:06:10","modified_gmt":"2021-11-18T03:36:10","slug":"domestic-airlines-look-to-revive-zero-bag-fares-in-order-to-grow-traffic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/domestic-airlines-look-to-revive-zero-bag-fares-in-order-to-grow-traffic\/","title":{"rendered":"Domestic airlines look to revive zero bag fares in order to grow traffic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Domestic airlines are preparing to offer lower fares for passengers without check-in bags in a move to improve seat occupancy and market share. <\/p>\n<p>IndiGo chief executive officer Ronojoy Dutta indicated the airline\u2019s interest to offer zero bag fares in an interaction with Bloomberg. Regulatory caps on fares and capacity related to Covid-19 have prevented IndiGo from taking a decision and the airline is discussing the issue with the government, he said. \u201cWe\u2019re waiting for everything to settle down before we lock something,\u201d Dutta said. <\/p>\n<p>IndiGo\u2019s rivals Go First and SpiceJet too are keen on offering zero bag fares, industry sources said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Domestic airlines are preparing to offer lower fares for passengers without check-in bags in a move to improve seat occupancy and market share. IndiGo chief executive officer Ronojoy Dutta indicated the airline\u2019s interest to offer zero bag fares in an interaction with Bloomberg. Regulatory caps on fares and capacity related to Covid-19 have prevented IndiGo from taking a decision and the airline is discussing the issue with the government, he said. \u201cWe\u2019re waiting for everything to settle down before we lock something,\u201d Dutta said. IndiGo\u2019s rivals Go First and SpiceJet too are keen on offering zero bag fares, industry sources [&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-450357","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\/450357","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=450357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450357\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}