Hyderabad: Amid IndiGo’s massive flight cancellations for the past five days, ministry of civil aviation has introduced limits on maximum fare charges.

“It has come to the notice of the Central Government that disruptions in flight operations of one of the scheduled airlines have resulted in flight cancellations, leading to capacity constraints and unreasonable surge in the fares on number of sectors.” the ministry said in a statement.

Flights up to 500 km will have a maximum fare of Rs 7,500, flights between 500–1000 km have a cap of Rs 12,000, flights between 1000–1500 km are capped at Rs 15,000 while flights with a length of over 1500 km have been capped at a fare of Rs 18,000.

The fares mentioned above are exclusive of applicable user development fee, passenger service fee and taxe

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