{"id":498863,"date":"2022-06-17T11:26:56","date_gmt":"2022-06-17T05:56:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=498863"},"modified":"2022-06-17T11:26:56","modified_gmt":"2022-06-17T05:56:56","slug":"flight-tickets-may-get-costlier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/flight-tickets-may-get-costlier\/","title":{"rendered":"Flight tickets may get costlier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Flying could soon get even more expensive. Oil marketing companies on Thursday hiked aviation turbine fuel (ATF) prices by the steepest ever (in one go) 16. 3% which now, for instance, costs an all-time high of Rs 1. 41 lakh per kilo litre (kl, or 1,000 litres) in Delhi. Coupled with a weaker rupee, the operating cost for Covid-ravaged airlines has shot up, some of whom now say airfare hike is inevitable to survive.<br \/>\nSpiceJet CMD Ajay Singh has termed these ATF prices \u201cnot sustainable\u201d and said an immediate \u201cminimum 10-15% increase in fares is required\u201d. Comments from other airlines were sought and awaited till the time of going to press.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Flying could soon get even more expensive. Oil marketing companies on Thursday hiked aviation turbine fuel (ATF) prices by the steepest ever (in one go) 16. 3% which now, for instance, costs an all-time high of Rs 1. 41 lakh per kilo litre (kl, or 1,000 litres) in Delhi. Coupled with a weaker rupee, the operating cost for Covid-ravaged airlines has shot up, some of whom now say airfare hike is inevitable to survive. SpiceJet CMD Ajay Singh has termed these ATF prices \u201cnot sustainable\u201d and said an immediate \u201cminimum 10-15% increase in fares is required\u201d. Comments from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[220,130,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-498863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498863","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=498863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498863\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}