Post fares online in two days, airlines told

The aviation regulator has asked airlines to upload the route-wise tariff across its network in various fare categories along with date of purchase on their respective websites.

All airlines have agreed to comply with the directive that needs to be implemented “latest by 5 pm on December 8,” an official spokesperson said in a statement.

The directive implies that the airlines would have to not only provide details of route-wise fares but also detail them for each “fare bucket”. Aircraft seats are grouped into different categories, each at a distinct price, referred to as “fare buckets”.

Though the airlines have been publishing the route-wise fares on their websites, the government now wants competitive information like  bucket-seat prices to be displayed on the  website.

This means every airlines have to announce the slabs of prices on each bunch of seats offered on each route daily.  

The airlines, on the other hand, fear revealing bucket-seat prices in advance would let their competitors lower their prices and would eventually affect the health of the industry at large.