Differential pricing at tarmac, for now

New Delhi: Civil aviation minister Praful Patel on Tuesday said the government had taken no decision regarding implementation of differential pricing for peak and non-peak hour charges. The ministry had constituted an internal committee to look into optimum utilisation of airport infrastructure and it was one of the recommendations of the committee to implement differential pricing, but the government had taken no decision on it, he said. On the congestion surcharge he said the government had never interfered with ticket pricing.
Kingfisher Airlines chairman Vijay Mallya said the Federation of Indian Airlines had asked the minister to revise the peak hour classification —from 7 to 10 in the morning and 6 to 10 in the evening— to 8 to 10 and 5 to 7 in the morning and in the evening.
Air Indian CMD V Thulasidas, Indian Airlines CMD Vishwapati Trivedi, Jet Airways CEO Wolfgang Prock-Schauer, Air Deccan COO Warwick Brady, SpiceJet CEO Siddhanta Sharma, Rahul Bhatia, managing director, InterGlobe Enterprises (representing Indigo Airlines) were also present.
14/03/07 Financial Express

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Categories: Airports Mar 2007, General Aviation Mar 2007