Limit on ‘preferred seating’
Posted on: 21/May/2013 6:27:03 PM
The Civil Aviation Ministry has announced that airlines will have to set a limit to their preferred seats. This is a follow up of their announcement in April this year in which they allowed airlines to charge for services that included preferred seating. The other services were meals and checked in baggage, among others.
‘We wrote to the minister immediately seeking the limiting of the number of preferred seats since it may greatly affect air passengers, particularly those belonging to the middle income group. If it is not limited, then several passengers will be forced to pay through their nose. A maximum of 25 per cent of the seats should belong to the preferred category… The excess fee charged by airlines may be exorbitant and has to be reduced’, said Air Passengers’ Association of India member D. Sudakar Reddy.
