GoAir joins other airlines, hikes ticket cancellation charges

Budget carrier GoAir today joined its peer group in upwardly revising its ticket cancellation charges, which now stands at Rs 2,225.
The ticket cancellation fee for GoAir flights have been increased to Rs 2,225 from Rs 1,900 earlier, a GoAir spokesperson said.
The new cancellation charges are effective from April 21, the spokesperson said.
The airline, has however, kept its ticket cancellation charges slightly lower than those by IndiGo and SpiceJet, which recently hiked it to Rs 2,250 per ticket.
This is the second round of hike affected by these carriers as most of the domestic carriers, including IndiGo, had increased the cancellation charges by a significant amount in February this year.

At the time of IndiGo hiking its ticket cancellations charges, apex air passengers body, APAI had warned the airlines of moving to fair trade regulator CCI, alleging cartelisation.
"We are preparing to petition to the Competition Commission of India (CCI) to probe the recent hike in the ticket cancellation charges by the Indian airlines. The way these airlines have announced the increase one-by-one, the pattern definitely suggests an anti-competition practice," Air Passengers Association of India (APAI) president D Sudhakara Reddy had said.