Flying on clipped wings

Capping airline fares is unnecessary

With the nationwide lockdown being lifted in phases, administrative intervention in the economy appears to have surged. This appears to be implicit in the “calibrated” resumption of airline services on May 25, a decision that caught the airline industry by surprise (an earlier announcement had pointed to a June deadline). The advanced deadline will be good news for airlines, which were suffering the ill effects of a pre-Covid-19 economic slowdown that the national lockdown compounded. The reopening, which the civil aviation minister has said will start with one-third of operations, is conditional upon strict safety guidelines to be followed at