In this regard, P Chidambaram took to Twitter and said," Delhi-Chennai Business Class air tickets on Vistara and Air India have been set at a 'reasonable' price of Rs 6300 and Rs 5700 respectively Oops, sorry, they are set at a 'very reasonable' Rs 63,000 and Rs 57,000 respectively."
Binoy Viswam in a letter to Jyotiraditya Scindia said, "I write to you seeking your intervention to arrest the indiscriminate increase in domestic airfare prices across the country, and the extreme hardship caused to the ordinary citizens of the country."
"As a result of this intervention, prices have seen up to 60 per cent decline. This is being monitored daily by the Minister himself," as per ministry sources on data by DGCA's Tariff Monitoring Unit.
The Twitter battle between Congress leader KC Venugopal and Union civil aviation Jyotiraditya Scindia continues over the latest rise in airfares and other affairs involving India's civil aviation sector.
Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel on Sunday wrote a letter to the Union Civil Aviation minister Jyotiraditya Scindia requesting him to take prompt action to add Bilaspur city to the UDAN-5 scheme.
Terming his remarks "ill-informed" and shocking" Union Civil Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia on Sunday shot back at the senior Congress leader KC Venugopal for hitting out at the Centre over "skyrocketing airfares" and said Indian economy is in the pink of health.
When asked about the group of Bajrang Sena workers who joined the Congress party and Home Minister Narottam Mishra claimed that Bajrang Sena did not exist in the country, Singh responded, "Which Bajrang Sena, I do not know which Bajrang Sena he is talking about."
"I am happy to say that the maximum fares on flights connecting Delhi to Srinagar, Leh, Pune and Mumbai were reduced by 14-61 per cent on June 6. The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) and the Ministry are monitoring the daily fares," Scindia said while addressing the press confere
Scindia said, "Whatever the governments have done in the past 68 years, the Modi government has done it in nine years. The number has reached from 74 to 148. We aim to make in 200-220 in the next five years including heliports and water aerodromes".
"Sustainable Green Airports Mission", a publication on the initiatives taken up by Airports Authority of India (AAI) on sustainability, was launched on World Environment Day by Jyotiraditya Scindia, Union Minister of Civil Aviation. This booklet highlights the various initiatives taken up b