{"id":481773,"date":"2022-04-04T08:46:38","date_gmt":"2022-04-04T03:16:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=481773"},"modified":"2022-04-04T09:28:13","modified_gmt":"2022-04-04T03:58:13","slug":"cheap-tickets-to-stay-as-indias-airlines-squabble-on-fare-hikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/cheap-tickets-to-stay-as-indias-airlines-squabble-on-fare-hikes\/","title":{"rendered":"Cheap tickets to stay as India&#8217;s airlines squabble on fare hikes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Top airline bosses agreed on many things at the Wings India airshow in Hyderabad last month: taxes should be reduced and airport capacity must be ramped up. One thing they couldn\u2019t settle upon: whether unfair competition is keeping fares artificially low in what\u2019s already a brutally competitive market. <\/p>\n<p>Sunil Bhaskaran, the chief executive officer of AirAsia India, was upfront. Indian aviation is suffering from \u201cirresponsible competition\u201d that\u2019s kept fares low despite high taxes and fuel prices, he said. Bhaskaran didn\u2019t single out who he was referring to. But the one carrier capable of making the entire market dance to its tune is IndiGo, India\u2019s largest airline.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Top airline bosses agreed on many things at the Wings India airshow in Hyderabad last month: taxes should be reduced and airport capacity must be ramped up. One thing they couldn\u2019t settle upon: whether unfair competition is keeping fares artificially low in what\u2019s already a brutally competitive market. Sunil Bhaskaran, the chief executive officer of AirAsia India, was upfront. Indian aviation is suffering from \u201cirresponsible competition\u201d that\u2019s kept fares low despite high taxes and fuel prices, he said. Bhaskaran didn\u2019t single out who he was referring to. But the one carrier capable of making the entire market dance to its [&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-481773","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\/481773","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=481773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481773\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}