Certain routes to see rise in fares

Mumbai: Expect that Mumbai-Lucknow air fare to go up. With Air Sahara, the only full service carrier that at times dropped air fares like a low-cost carrier now being taken over, there may be an upswing in fares in certain sectors.
"The equation generally has been more the number of airlines operating to a particular destination, better the availability of cheaper fares," says an airline official.
"Quite a few sectors in the country are only serviced by Air Sahara, Jet Airways and Indian Airlines. The Delhi-Lucknow sector, for instance, where Air Sahara often initiated a dip in prices that the others were forced to follow. Now fares are bound to go up at least by 20 % in these places," he added. Then, there are routes which are serviced only by Air Sahara.
"The Delhi-Gorakhpur sector, where the fares are not cheap at Rs 5,947. But then, introductory fares on such routes have always been attractive, like the recently launched Kochi-Delhi route, which only Air Sahara operates, comes at a dirt cheap Rs 5,000," the official added.
Though there won't be much change in the degree of competition on most sectors, what with low-cost carriers around, there will be changes in the last-minute fare structures, feel experts.
13/04/07 Times of India

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