Airfares between Mangaluru and other important cities, including Mumbai, have almost tripled even as the Union Civil Aviation Ministry ordered keeping the flight duty time limitations (FDTL) orders of the Directorate General of Civil Aviation in abeyance with immediate effect, on Friday.
Mangaluru International Airport, in a statement here, said 18 flights, nine each arrivals and departures of IndiGo, were cancelled on Friday.
For travel on Sunday, the fares on Mumbai-Mangaluru-Mumbai sector shot up to ₹25,000 as against the normal average fares of ₹6,000 to ₹8,000, said Yeshwant Kadri, a Mangaluru resident. Similarly, the fares on Bengaluru-Mangaluru-Bengaluru sector rose to about ₹18,000 as against the normal average of ₹3,000 to ₹6,000 for Sunday, he said. Air India Express was the lone carrier operating the services, he added.
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