Airfare Hike in India: GoFirst had canceled all its flights on 3rd May due to bad financial situation. In such a situation, people are facing a lot of trouble during the summer vacation season.
The spot air fare has increased manifold on many routes. According to media report , the data of different travel portals has shown that even after the efforts of DGCA, passengers on many routes have to pay huge airfares.
Air fare became costlier by 30 to 40 percent
The director of Federation of Association in Indian Tourism and Hospitality (FAITH) said that for the next few days, passengers are not going to get any relief in air fares. It is worth noting that the current air fare has become costlier by 30 to 40 percent as compared to before the Corona period. In such a situation, people will have to loose more pockets to travel on many routes during the summer holidays.
Go first crisis increased the trouble
Significantly, the airlines company Go First Crisis, which is going through bad financial conditions, had applied to the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) on 2 May for bankruptcy. After this, the company stopped operating flights of all its routes from 3 May.
Passengers are unable to get flights on many routes due to the cancellation of more than 300 flights in the last one month by the company providing cheap air services. On the other hand, the air fare on these routes is skyrocketing. Because of this it is affecting other airlines as well.
The highest airfare increased on these routes-
Delhi-Mumbai, Srinagar-Delhi, Mumbai-Goa, Patna-Delhi, Delhi-Pune, Mumbai-Ahmedabad, Bengaluru-Mumbai, Delhi-Leh, Delhi-Ahmedabad and Mumbai-Chandigarh routes to be operated by GoFirst in 2022 but, has been done. In such a situation, the maximum increase in air fare has been seen on these routes only. According to the data of the online portal, 337.5 percent of the airfares on the Delhi-Ahmedabad route, 201.9 percent on the Delhi-Pune route, 94.8 percent on the Kolkata-Ahmedabad route, 84.2 percent on the Kolkata-Bengaluru route, 32.2 percent on the Delhi-Srinagar route, Delhi- Leh route is registering an increase of 18.6 per cent and Bengaluru-Mumbai route 8.3 per cent.
After the intervention of the government, these routes got some relief
Air India and Indigo are trying to increase the number of their flights on many demand routes like Delhi, Goa, Ahmedabad, Pune. Due to this, there will be some reduction in air fare on these routes. At the same time, the government had also recently asked the airlines companies to increase the air fares in a restrained manner. After the intervention of the government, a drop of 10 to 15 percent in airfares has been registered in some routes. Air fare has been reduced by 10 percent on the Delhi-Leh route, 11 percent on the Delhi-Srinagar route, 12 percent on the Mumbai-Srinagar route and 12 percent on the Delhi-Pune route.
