Govt to examine airlines charging fee for airport check-in
BRAND-NEW DELHI: The government will examine the practice of lots of airline companies charging a fee from domestic passengers for check-in at airport counters.
When domestic flights had resumed partially on May 25, 2020– after across the country lockdown in wake of Covid-19 pandemic for 2 months– govt had actually imposed certain conditions like passengers being needed to do web check-in. Since then lots of airline companies have started imposing a charge from domestic guests for check-in at airport counters.
On Friday, a passenger took to Twitter to grumble about airline companies charging a cost for check-in by comparing it to a dining establishment charging a consumer additional for serving meals on a plate.
Another individual tagged Union air travel minister J M Scindia, while terming the practice as “absurd”.
To this, the minister replied: “Agreed, will analyze this asap.”
Agreed, will examine this asap! https://t.co/KkY8b0xP93!.?.!— Jyotiraditya M. Scindia(@JM_Scindia)1652447146000 Being a commercial decision by struggling to endure Indian airlines, it stays to be seen how the government can get them to reevaluate this cess. Especially, when the operating cost for airlines is at greatest ever level at the moment due to air travel turbine fuel( ATF)being at record high prices and the rupee at record low. Russia’s war on Ukraine has pressed oil to perpetuity highs. High base price of ATF– its costs keep rising even as politically sensitive fuel and diesel have been spared from the rise in current days– coupled with even higher rates of VAT and excise task has made jet fuel for domestic flights in India amongst the most costly globally. States with India’s biggest aviation hubs of IGI Airport and Mumbai– Delhi and Maharashtra– are yet to cut barrel on ATF. The Centre has actually likewise not decreased import tax on jet fuel– a long
standing need of airline companies. Indian carriers have actually been seeking relief on fuel front from the federal government for a long time. On the other hand domestic fare bands, decided by the aviation ministry, suitable to tickets cost flights within 15 days of departure from reserving have actually not been modified upwards for lots of months now regardless of the unrelenting walking in
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