{"id":659506,"date":"2026-03-21T12:21:57","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T06:51:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=659506"},"modified":"2026-03-21T13:14:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T07:44:08","slug":"airlines-object-to-no-selection-fee-directive-for-60-seats-say-it-could-raise-fares-for-everyone-write-to-ministry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/airlines-object-to-no-selection-fee-directive-for-60-seats-say-it-could-raise-fares-for-everyone-write-to-ministry\/","title":{"rendered":"Airlines object to \u2018no selection fee\u2019 directive for 60% seats, say it could raise fares for everyone, write to ministry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Federation of Indian Airlines (FIA) has written to the Indian ministry of civil aviation, on behalf of its members Air India, IndiGo and Spice Jet, against government directions that say carriers must allocate a minimum 60% of seats for \u201cfree\u201d selection, meaning without any additional fee.<\/p>\n<p>The airlines&#8217; body has contended that this will have \u201cunintended and adverse consequences for the aviation sector\u201d. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Federation of Indian Airlines (FIA) has written to the Indian ministry of civil aviation, on behalf of its members Air India, IndiGo and Spice Jet, against government directions that say carriers must allocate a minimum 60% of seats for \u201cfree\u201d selection, meaning without any additional fee. The airlines&#8217; body has contended that this will have \u201cunintended and adverse consequences for the aviation sector\u201d.<\/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-659506","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\/659506","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=659506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659506\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}