2024-04-24 16:27:55
New Delhi: Now you will soon have to pay lower fares for air travel without check in baggage. Till now, airlines in foreign countries are providing such arrangements to the people. In which less fare is charged from the passengers if there is no check-in baggage. Currently in India, airlines provide this facility as per their discount. But now soon passengers in all airlines in India will start getting this facility. According to the information received from the Director General of Civil Aviation of the Central Government, now changes have been made in the Air Transport Circular. As per the latest decision of DGCA, services and fees of scheduled airlines have also been unbundled. This means that no airline will necessarily be able to charge passengers for meals, snacks, drinks etc. According to the new rules, airlines can sell all these facilities separately. But it is up to you to avail these facilities. Suppose you are carrying less luggage then you can buy a cheaper ticket. If you want to carry more luggage then you can choose the facility of carrying more luggage by paying a little more. That means, if you are traveling with a full service carrier like Vistara and Air India, you can choose not to pay meal or snack charges if you wish. Budget airlines like IndiGo and SpiceJet already have such a system.
Air India’s ‘Queen of the Sky’ took its last flight, this aircraft was very special in many respects
Ban on charging preferred seat charge
According to the revised circular of DGCA, airlines cannot charge any preferred seat charge for sharing seats from children traveling with their parents or guardian. Now children aged 12 years and below will have to be allotted a seat next to their parent or guardian without charging any fee. Earlier it was seen that airlines used to charge some fee for allotting companion seats to children traveling with a parent or guardian.
increasing number of passengers
The number of people traveling by air in the country is continuously increasing. There has been a lot of growth in it in the last 10 years. According to the report, the number of domestic passengers in the year 2014 was around 60 million. Now it has increased to around 143 million. Not only domestic passengers, the number of international passengers has also increased significantly. The number of international passengers will increase to 64 million in the year 2024. Earlier it was 43 million. With the increase in the number of passengers, the number of aircraft has also increased. According to the report, 10 years ago there used to be around 400 aircraft in the country. Now this number has increased to 723. Similarly, the number of airports has also increased from 74 to 150.