As per DIAL, only 12% Indians travel directly to the Americas from Delhi while 88% travel via the aviation hubs of the Middle East, South-east Asia or Europe.
The final decision would rest with the Airports Economic Regulatory Authority (AERA), which is also currently evaluating tariff revision proposals by GMR-owned DIAL.
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The proposal involves hiking of user development fees (UDF) to ₹570 per international business and first-class passengers, compared to ₹280 per economy and premium economy passenger for the period of next 4 years.
The proposal also involves differential charging during peak and non-peak hours. Currently, ₹128 per passenger is charged by DIAL as UDF on base ticket price.
With airfares remaining dependent on demand and supply in a dynamic market, DIAL’s CEO highlighted that availability of more flights may witness in easing of airfares.
He added that Airport charges form only 1.5% to 2% of base airfare, and proposed increase of UDF (User development fees) may hike it to 2.5%.
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(Edited by : Priyanka Deshpande)
