Wednesday, 5 December 2012

Petition against Air India flights


K.N.A. Kadar, MLA, on Tuesday approached the Kerala High Court seeking a directive to Air India to reduce the air fare on Gulf sector from Kerala and to evolve a scientific, rational criterion for fixing the same.
The petitioner said that the air fare on the Gulf sector was exorbitantly high and was not based on any scientific criteria or data.
Air India had not been able to maintain any scientific criteria for fixing air fares. On different sectors, the company charged different rates in such a way that they extracted more money from passengers for short-duration journey whereas they charged less for long hours of journey.
The conduct of Air India was nothing but extortion of passengers.
The service offered by Air India on the Gulf sector was far inferior, compared to that on flights to Europe and other sectors.
402 flights cancelled
Cancellation of flights, delays, unscientific increase in fare and rude behaviour of crew had become the order of the day.
In the last 10 months, as many as 402 services on the Kerala-Gulf sector were cancelled and cancellation of 112 flight services did not have any valid reasons.
The petitioner sought a directive to ensure that there would not be any schedule cancellation and inordinate delay in flight services.

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