{"id":652881,"date":"2025-11-18T08:19:35","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T02:49:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=652881"},"modified":"2025-11-18T08:45:33","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T03:15:33","slug":"supreme-court-seeks-reply-from-govt-others-on-plea-against-abrupt-airfare-hikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/supreme-court-seeks-reply-from-govt-others-on-plea-against-abrupt-airfare-hikes\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court seeks reply from govt, others on plea against abrupt airfare hikes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday sought response from the government, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA), and Airports Economic Regulatory Authority of India (AERA) on a plea seeking clear rules and an independent regulator to curb unpredictable airfares and extra charges by private airlines. <\/p>\n<p>A bench comprising Justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta issued notice to the government and others on a public interest litigation by S Laxminarayanan, a social activist, alleging that unchecked and opaque airline practices such as abrupt fare increases, fewer services, inadequate grievance redressal, and unfair algorithm-driven pricing, are infringing upon citizens&#8217; fundamental rights to equality, freedom of movement, and a life with dignity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday sought response from the government, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA), and Airports Economic Regulatory Authority of India (AERA) on a plea seeking clear rules and an independent regulator to curb unpredictable airfares and extra charges by private airlines. A bench comprising Justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta issued notice to the government and others on a public interest litigation by S Laxminarayanan, a social activist, alleging that unchecked and opaque airline practices such as abrupt fare increases, fewer services, inadequate grievance redressal, and unfair algorithm-driven pricing, are infringing upon citizens&#8217; fundamental [&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":[192,130,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-652881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652881","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=652881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652881\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=652881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=652881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=652881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}