Mumbai: The Vile Parle MLA Krishna Hegde has written to the union civil aviation minister, Ajit Singh, complaining that all domestic airlines have a minimum base fare starting from Rs 3000 to Rs 4000 but no upper limit in fares when it come to charging the flyer or consumer.
"A ticket to Goa costs Rs 3500 on a normal day and on weekends it goes up to Rs 8000. During the year end, a ticket to Goa goes up to a whopping Rs 80,000 (one way)" stated the MLA.
"Even the so called Budget Airlines are charging the flyers very heavily." said Krishna Hegde. Hegde strongly recommended a cap on the upper limit of airlines fares and said that a regulatory body like TRAI should be set up on the lines of the telecom sector. This should be done on an urgent basis.
26/11/12 Vijay Singh/Times of India
