The government is right in intervening over the issue of price gouging by airlines, says Akasa Air co-founder, Vinay Dube, days after a government advisory to airlines in the aftermath of the train crash in Odisha.
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“The Civil Aviation Ministry has an excellent point in terms of gouging. They want to make sure that there is no gouging going on in pockets like [for travel to] Bhubaneswar. I fully support it. [They are saying] don’t take advantage as people have to fly [when train routes are affected], don’t take advantage that you have a monopoly on a particular route,” Akasa Air co-founder and CEO, Vinay Dube, told The Hindu on the sidelines of the IATA’s World Air Transport Summit in Istanbul.
