{"id":581389,"date":"2023-06-02T11:33:31","date_gmt":"2023-06-02T06:03:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=581389"},"modified":"2023-06-02T11:33:31","modified_gmt":"2023-06-02T06:03:31","slug":"govt-looking-into-airfare-surge-there-are-not-enough-planes-given-travel-demand-aviation-minister-scindia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/govt-looking-into-airfare-surge-there-are-not-enough-planes-given-travel-demand-aviation-minister-scindia\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt looking into airfare surge; there are not enough planes given travel demand: Aviation minister Scindia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Taking cognisance of the surge in airfares on sectors where Go First had a strong presence, Union aviation minister Jyotiraditya Scindia has put together agroup to study the spikes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are doing a full analysis on these routes and we will speak to our airlines to make sure that fares are within a certain level. We will try our best but it\u2019s an issue created by an unforeseen demand-supply imbalance,\u201d he said on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>For instance, Delhi-Leh return fares had touched Rs 52,000 \u2014 as opposed to Rs 52,000 for Delhi-Paris return \u2014 some days back in this peak demand season. Scindia identified airports like Srinagar and Puneas being the most affected, with Ahmedabad also hit slightly, for this reason.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Taking cognisance of the surge in airfares on sectors where Go First had a strong presence, Union aviation minister Jyotiraditya Scindia has put together agroup to study the spikes. \u201cWe are doing a full analysis on these routes and we will speak to our airlines to make sure that fares are within a certain level. We will try our best but it\u2019s an issue created by an unforeseen demand-supply imbalance,\u201d he said on Thursday. For instance, Delhi-Leh return fares had touched Rs 52,000 \u2014 as opposed to Rs 52,000 for Delhi-Paris return \u2014 some days back in this [&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-581389","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\/581389","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=581389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581389\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=581389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=581389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=581389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}