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New Delhi, Feb 10: Replying to a question in Parliament, Union civil aviation minister Hardeep Singh Puri on Wednesday said that fare band on domestic flights can’t be a permanent feature and it is expected that when airlines which are now operating 80 per cent of their pre-Covid capacity resume their full services.
“The floor and ceiling price was an extraordinary measure which was necessitated by am extraordinary situation which we found ourselves in. It is designed to ensure that airlines in a situation of limited availability did not charge exorbitant prices. It is not our intention and can not be in an open market deregulated situation to have the fare band made a permanent feature,”…