7 hikes for petrol, discounts for Jet fuel

Mumbai: While petrol prices have gone up yet again to Rs 60/L, Jet fuel prices (Rs 47/L) have regularly been trimmed.
That petrol prices were hiked a record seven times this year speaks volumes about our ministers' clear priorities.
When it comes to choosing between the jet set and the common man, it is the latter who always takes a beating.
Any news of increase in jet fuel (auto turbine fuel or ATF) prices is protested vehemently by airline companies, and subsequently reduced by oil companies at regular intervals.
Minister of Civil Aviation, Praful Patel, has taken up airlines' concerns with the prime minister every now and then. But as far as prices of petrol and diesel go, well, it is not really anybody's worry but the man on the street.
Hikes in these fuels are hardly adequately represented by anyone in the union cabinet, or the state government for that matter, experts feel.
"The oil companies, which have the authority to decide the fuel price, always address the concern of airline companies.
But they forget the same when they hike the prices of petrol and diesel which is used by the common man," said Captain Akram Baig, an aviation expert.
17/12/10 Bipin kumar Singh/MiD DAY

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Categories: Indian Aviation- In General Dec 2010