Extra luggage, preferred seats on flights get costly

Mumbai: Close on the heels of national carrier Air India slashing its baggage limit, private full service carrier Jet Airways on Thursday revised its free baggage limit to 15 kgs in economy class from 20 kg on Jet Konnect.If you are carrying baggage weighing more than 15 kg, you will have pay Rs 250 per additional kg. The revision will come into effect from May 15. However, the JetPrivilege members would continue to enjoy the additional free baggage allowance, while Premiere (business class) guests would continue to avail 30 kg of free baggage allowance on Jet Airways and Jet-Konnect flights, the airline said in a statement. The move came days after the directorate-general of civil aviation (DGCA) allowed airlines to charge fees for ‘unbundled services’ like check-in baggage, preferential seats, meals, snacks or drink (barring drinking water) and sports and musical instruments on their domestic flights.Meanwhile, low-cost carrier IndiGo has decided to charge a premium from the fliers for pre-booking a preferential seat in domestic and global flights.It would charge the passenger a premium of Rs 500 for sitting in first two rows or near emergency exits in 12 and 13th row on a domestic flight and Rs 800 for an international flight under its Indigo Seat Plus plan.
 Though, IndiGo, has not indicated from when it would start charging the new rates, in a circular to travel agents it said for all other window and aisle seats, which are pre-selected, a passenger would be charged Rs 200 for domestic and Rs 300 for international flights.While pre-booking of all other middle seats would cost Rs 100 on a domestic route and `200 on an international flight.
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