With a section of Air India unions going on strike disrupting flight schedules, private airlines had a field day today effecting an undeclared hike of 10-20 per cent, industry officials said.
The airlines, however, denied any fare hike on their part saying the fares were always "dynamic" and based on demand and supply.
"The fares today are 20 per cent up compared to yesterday's fares, without the airlines actually resorting to a hike," Travel Agents Federation of India General Secretary Ajay Prakash told PTI.
The average fares in the airlines' system were reflecting between Rs 5,700-8000 across sectors as against Rs 4,500-6000 which were earlier showing on their websites, Prakash said.
A city-based businessman, Bholenath, had to shell out as high as Rs 30,000 for two tickets for one-way travel to Varanasi for himself and his son, after Air India cancelled its Mumbai-Varanasi flight.
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