AIRLINES DUMP FUEL HIKE BURDEN ON TRAVELLERS
New Delhi,India : Harried by a spike in aviation turbine fuel prices and travel industry downturn as a result of a slowing global economy, airlines have decided to hit back by attacking your pocket.
It is not just the tickets that cost a bomb, everything in the ecosystem is pinching the passengers' pocket more. Quietly, the airlines have hiked the charges for cancellation of tickets, extra baggage, paper ticket printouts besides charging extra for unaccompanied minors.
All these charges are in addition to the 30-40 per cent hike in airfares in the past six months.
While the cancellation fee for domestic air tickets has been increased by almost 30 per cent from Rs 750 to Rs 950, it is much higher for international ticket cancellations.
Air fares in India have been low for quite a long time. Airlines cannot be held responsible for imposing or hiking charges on services. Such charges are justified.
Similarly, extra baggage charges per kilogram have been doubled from Rs 100 to Rs 200, while a traveller carrying an e-ticket is being made to pay Rs 50 for a printed ticket by all airlines. Also children up to 12 years, who are travelling without their guardians, are being charged Rs 1,000 extra.
All airlines such as Jet Airways and Kingfisher Airlines besides the low-cost-carriers such as Indigo, SpiceJet, GoAir and others have also hiked these charges making air travel more expensive.
21/08/2012 : Sanjay Singh / Business Today
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