New Delhi: The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) said on Twitter on Tuesday (Aug 10): “Passengers travelling to international destinations are requested to check the fare preferably from the website of the concerned airline as the metasearch engines at times do not reflect the actual point to point fare and do make combinations of multiple airlines and end up with an exaggerated figure.”
Last Saturday, Sanjeev Gupta, Secretary, Inter-State Council Secretariat, Union Home Ministry, had complained on Twitter that an economy-class ticket on British Airways’s Delhi-London flight for August 26 was priced at Rs 3.95 lakh.
However, the Ministry of Civil Aviation clarified on Sunday that an economy-class ticket on the Delhi-London flight has been available for between Rs 1.03 lakh and Rs 1.47 lakh during August.
While there have been lower and upper limits on all domestic airfares in India since May 25 last year, no such limits have been imposed on international airfares.
Scheduled international passenger flights have been suspended in India since March 23 last year amid the covid-19 pandemic, however, limited special international passenger flights have been operating since July 2020 under the air bubble arrangements formed with 28 countries, including the UK.