Thursday, January 22, 2009

Airfares hike once again

Government has decided to put an additional charge for air travelers in Delhi and Mumbai, so stop expecting cheap air tickets from now. ADF charges may be effective from next month onwards; this will be an additional fee for outgoing passengers. The ADF will be for 2 years only to minimize the deficits for future which was about Rs 2,000 crores at the Delhi and Mumbai airports. Delhi Airports will be charging of about Rs 300 from outgoing domestic passengers and Rs 1000 from international passengers as additional flights airfares. These two airports handles 55 percent of flights in India and the reconstruction of the two airports can cost upto Rs 11,400 crores. This ADF will be charged for 2 years then it may be discontinued.

The Bangalore Government allowed it’s airports to charge UDF of Rs 260 from Jan 16. Here domestic passengers are already paying Rs 375 and International passengers have been paying Rs 1000 UDF early this month which is additional to cheap flights tickets. The sources are depicting that airports could be allowed to pay UDF or ADF from passengers but still no official talks have been done in this regards.

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