Lok Sabha Question No. 4324 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2019-07-18
Subject: Fixing of Air Fare
Ministry: CIVIL AVIATION
Asked by: Ramapati Ram Tripathi

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF CIVIL AVIATION LOK SABHA

UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. : 4324 (To be answered on the I8th July 2019)

## FIXING OF AIR FARE

## 4324. DR. RAMAPATI RAM TRIPATHI

## Will the Minister of CIVIL AVIA TION

- (b) if s0, the details thereof;

be pleased to state:-

- Geirhether the Government has paid attention towards various irregularities committed by the private airline operators including arbitrary of' air fare by them; being 'fixing
- iwhethe the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has taken action against such erring private airlines;
- (e) the steps taken or taken by DGCA to being bring
- (d) ifso, the details thereof and if not, the reasons therefor; and

## ANSWER

## Minister of State (IC) in the Ministry of CIVIL AVIATION

(Shri Hardeep Singh Puri)

- (2) to (e): The incident rate of scheduled airlines has reduced since 2013 while the accident rate has seen & decline since 2015. Based on guidelines issued the International Civil calidlated for scheduled airline accident per 10000 departures Theyearawise accident and incident rate are as follows: Year Number of accident

|                 | per 10000 departures   |   Number of incident per 10000 departures |
|-----------------|------------------------|-------------------------------------------|
| 2013            |                        |                                     13.9  |
| 2014            | 2.8                    |                                     11.63 |
| 2015            | 5.1                    |                                      7.46 |
| 2016            | 3.3                    |                                      7.27 |
| 2017            | 1.0                    |                                      6.56 |
| 2018 (Till Nov) | 0.9                    |                                      4.71 |

The Directorate General %f Civil Aviation (DGCA) has carried out the safety

- steps have been taken by DGCA to ensure safety of aircraft
- followed up for implementation with the concerned reports are recurrence of similar incident in future agencies s0 as to prevent
- As per the annual surveillance program, audit of the out. Findings of audit report are followed operators is carried compliance. The up with the operator for verified compliance of the action taken by the operator is further during the next audit
- Accidentlincident data is analyzed on yearly basis and based on the important observations/findings are shared with peracoro tohevoidysie recurrence of the accidents /incidents.

Further, as per Prevailing regulation, air fare is neither regulated established the Government, Airlines are free to fix the nor under the provision Of Sub-rule (1) of Rule 135, Aircraft reasonable tariff into consideration the various factors Which include Rules 1937 characteristics of service, the cost of operation, The airline reasonable profit and the generally prevailing tariff pricing system runs in multiple levels (buckets or Reservation Booking Designator (RBDs)) which are in line with practice followed demand of seat as the lower fare buckets sold out fast in offered by airlines  Some of the airlines have introduced when bookings are to existing advance purchase schemes of 60 Apex-90, in addition which highly discounted fares 30 14 even offered which wouid entail travelling peak seasons on low fares.The fare structures stated aboveehavg been displayed by airlines o their websites. The airlines ese Sub Ruie (2) of Rule 135 of the Aircraft compliant to the charged by them is in line with fare Rules, 1937 as as the fare prevailing regulation, all scheduled displayed on their website. As per route-wise and domestic airlines are required to display maintain random recege declared by them: The fare monitoring analysis carried'Side the recent past has shown that the airfares remained weli within thedfare bucket hike is observed, Ministry of Civii AviationeDirectoratesGeney fare Aviation sensitize the airiines for General of Civil necessary intervention. by taking being get days,\_ days, days being during long steep