The Directorate General of Civil Aviation, DGCA, has asked all the Airlines to ensure that the airfares remain within the fare band. This follows in the wake of media reporters about increase in airfares over the last few days.

In a statement issued in New Delhi today, the Civil Aviation Ministry has said that the DGCA had conducted study of airfares and concluded that the airfare offered by various scheduled domestic airlines on different sectors remained within the fare bands available on their respective websites.

The statement also said that in the last 15 to 20 days airfares of flights to and from Delhi have gone up on account of increased User Development Fee and Service Tax. The fares for 14 days in advance of the journey are still available in the lowest fare buckets. However, random monitoring of airfares by DGCA has not revealed an alarming trend.