There is no proposal to cap the prices of airine tickets, says Jayant Sinha

As airline ticket prices look poised to soar in the festive season after imposition of customs duty on aviation turbine fuel, Union minister Jayant Sinha said the government wouldn’t intervene in setting a higher price or changing the pricing mechanism. “There is no such proposal for capping on prices.”  

Sinha said there was a lack of captains to man the aircrafts designed for the government’s ambitious regional connectivity scheme, known as UDAN. The problem stems from the fact that most of the pilots have licences to fly larger aircrafts such as the Airbus 320, while the licence needed for smaller