Flexi-fare system to be reviewed soon, Railways may slash ticket prices too

Railways earned around Rs 540 crore in less than a year after introducing the flexi-fare system.

With complaints from passengers over the high prices of railway tickets due to the flexi-fare ticketing system and several seats being left vacant due to the same,  Railway Minister Piyush Goyal has said the railways will review it and the prices would be slashed.

On September 9, 2016, Railways introduced flexi-fare for premier trains - Rajdhani, Duronto and Shatabdi. Under this, the base fare increases by 10 per cent with every 10 per cent of berths sold subject to a prescribed limit. There was no change in the existing fare for 1AC and EC class of travel.But on December 19,