Planning to book a flight ticket this festive season? You might end up burning a hole in your pocket. This is why... ✈️
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00:00These days, whenever the cost of travel increases,
00:04tickets become so expensive that there is no control.
00:08A ticket for Rs. 5000 is sold for Rs. 20,000-25,000.
00:11There is a lean season where the price of tickets is low,
00:14and there is a high season where the price of tickets increases.
00:17And this is not only in India,
00:19this is the situation at the global level.
00:30The government's slogan was that even a person who wears slippers will travel by air.
00:44These days, you can think of it as air or anything else,
00:48but you have to be careful about everything, sir.
00:50You should also stop them.
00:52I am stopping everyone.
00:53My request is, sir, and my question is,
00:55whenever the cost of travel increases,
01:00tickets become so expensive that there is no control.
01:03A ticket for Rs. 5000 is sold for Rs. 20,000-25,000.
01:07Does the Minister have a solution to control private airlines
01:13so that tickets can be kept cheap and common passengers can travel by air?
01:17Thank you, sir.
01:18Sir, I would like to inform Mr. Sansad,
01:23that his wires may have been crossed.
01:25He is mixing it up on the basis of flight plans and common tickets.
01:31Under the flight plan, under the mechanism of viability gap funding,
01:35cheap tickets are given so that we can make that route viable.
01:41And on the basis of that, 1 crore 10 lakh people have been able to travel by air in this country,
01:46who had never imagined.
01:49So, where attention should be given, I would like to request Mr. Sansad to pay attention.
01:55As far as he has raised the issue that ticket prices have increased,
01:59he is absolutely right.
02:01And the exact answer to this,
02:03I had said in the first question,
02:05that in our sector, there are two factors due to priority.
02:10One is the factor of seasonality.
02:12There is a lean season, where ticket prices are low.
02:15There is a high season, where ticket prices increase.
02:18And this is not only in India.
02:20This is the situation at the global level.
02:22And today, we are moving in that high season.
02:25Number one.
02:26Number two.
02:27There are designated buckets of tickets.
02:30So, if we want to travel, if we want to travel,
02:33if we book in advance, then you will get less than the lowest fare at the discount.
02:372000, 3000.
02:38But if we book the ticket on the last day, then those fares definitely increase.
02:43And the third issue that I had raised before you,
02:45that the cost of air turbine fuel in the international market,
02:48which was Rs. 53,000 per kiloliter pre-COVID,
02:51has now increased to Rs. 1,17,000 per liter.
02:55In the present time,
02:56which is 50% of our input cost of airlines.