Delhi High Court dismisses 2 PILs seeking guidelines for capping fares for private airlines
The Delhi High Court, however, said that the interest of the passengers is to be safeguarded by the DGCA
The bench said that the interest of the passengers is to be safeguarded by the DGCA. (File Photo) The Delhi High Court has recently dismissed two public interest litigation (PIL) petitions seeking the issuance of guidelines for capping airfares to prevent private airlines from “charging arbitrary, irrational and exorbitant airfares for the flights”.
A division bench of Acting Chief Justice Manmohan and Justice Manmeet Pritam Singh Arora in its May 15 order observed that the petitions raised grievances “with respect to isolated incidents of spiked airfares” and had not substantiated the same with any “corroborative documents”.
“The Petitioners have relied upon the incidents reported in the newspaper articles, however, in the absence of any documents evidencing the claim of over-charging, which could prove a violation of the applicable Aircraft Rules, 1937, there is no reason to conclude that Respondent-DGCA (Directorate General of Civil Aviation) has failed to check the violation of the statutory rules by the airlines,” the bench said.
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