{"id":584429,"date":"2023-06-14T12:44:22","date_gmt":"2023-06-14T07:14:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=584429"},"modified":"2023-06-14T13:04:42","modified_gmt":"2023-06-14T07:34:42","slug":"why-is-india-seeing-sharp-hike-in-airfares-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/why-is-india-seeing-sharp-hike-in-airfares-explained\/","title":{"rendered":"Why is India seeing sharp hike in airfares, explained"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India has recorded the highest surge in airfares among other countries in Asia Pacific and Middle East, which is seen as a \u2018threat\u2019 to the civil aviation industry&#8217;s long-term recovery. According to the Airports Council International (ACI Asia-Pacific), there has been a 41% hike in the airfare in India, followed by United Arab Emirates (34%), Singapore (30%) and Australia (23%).<\/p>\n<p>The central government said that the rise in airfares have been seen on select routes. Moreover due to the Centre&#8217;s intervention, prices have reduced by 60%.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Union aviation minister Jyotiraditya Scindia said the airlines had been conveyed about ensuring to keep ticket prices within a certain limit. The Union civil aviation ministry has also given a clarification on the factors behind dynamic airfares and reasons behind their rise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India has recorded the highest surge in airfares among other countries in Asia Pacific and Middle East, which is seen as a \u2018threat\u2019 to the civil aviation industry&#8217;s long-term recovery. According to the Airports Council International (ACI Asia-Pacific), there has been a 41% hike in the airfare in India, followed by United Arab Emirates (34%), Singapore (30%) and Australia (23%). The central government said that the rise in airfares have been seen on select routes. Moreover due to the Centre&#8217;s intervention, prices have reduced by 60%. Earlier, Union aviation minister Jyotiraditya Scindia said the airlines had been conveyed about ensuring [&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":[184,141,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-584429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-hindustantimes","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584429","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=584429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584429\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=584429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=584429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=584429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}