Parliament panel meeting with MoCA, airlines officials concludes; members seek answers over aviation safety and "sudden" airfare surge post Pahalgam attack

New Delhi [India], July 8 (ANI): The Parliament Public Account Committee (PAC) on Tueday met with top official from the Civil Aviation Minitry and repreentative from major airline, where the member of the committee raied concern on the Air India Flight AI-171 crah in Ahmedabad and udden urge in flight fare from Srinagar to other citie after the Pahalgam terror attack on April 22.
Many Member of Parliament claimed that the airline dratically increaed their fare immediately after the attack, which i againt the et tandard.
Among other iue dicued, according to ource, ome member of the Oppoition partie have demanded a pecial audit of the Bureau of Civil Aviation Security (BCAS).
An MP from an oppoition party demanded a pecial audit for the Bureau of Civil Aviation Security (BCAS).
According to a noting on the Lok Sabha webite agenda of today meeting wa to hear Oral evidence of the repreentative of the Minitry of Civil Aviation, Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA), Airport Economic Regulatory Authority of India (AERA), Airport Authority of India (AAI), AAI Cargo Logitic and Allied Service Company Ltd. (AAICLAS), Bureau of Civil Aviation Security (BCAS) and other concerned organization including Airport Operator and Airline on the ubject Levy and regulation of fee, tariff, uer charge etc. on public infratructure and other public utilitie.
Air India CEO Campbell Wilon alo arrived at the Parliament Houe for the Public Account Committee (PAC) meeting.

Speaking to the media after the meeting, Nationalit Congre Party (NCP) MP Praful Patel aerted that there i no need to panic a all airline, including Air India, follow afety protocol.
However, Patel highlighted that there i need of more people in the DGCA a they are facing a hortage of top-level killed manpower.

Safety i paramount. Anyone who flie want to feel afe and aured that he will reach hi detination... Indian aviation i afe. There i no need to be panicking about it. All airline, including Air India, follow afety protocol. DGCA i well-equipped and doe a very good job. DGCA need to have more people becaue they are facing a hortage of top-level killed manpower. A lot of retired people can be brought back for a hort period o that undertaffing can be addreed at the higher level to enure that the afety tandard are complied with, Praful Patel aid.
BJP MP Jagdambika Pal aid that air afety wa the mot dicued iue in the PAC meeting.

In the meeting, we talked about the Buddhit Circuit. There are very important place that are ignificant in Buddhim. All countrie and place ignificant to Buddhim will be interconnected. Airfare hike were alo dicued, epecially the one pot Pahalgam terror attack and during Maha Kumbh... Air afety wa the mot dicued iue... The black box invetigation of the Ahmedabad plane crah i currently underway, and the Dreamliner i uppoed to be one of the afet aircraft, Pal aid.
Congre MP and PAC Chairperon, KC Venugopal, mentioned that the Committee ha aked the airline to have clear-cut regulation on fare.

Everybody i concerned about the afety... We are dicuing the increae in air fare alo, epecially pot Pahalgam and during Kumbh... The committee ha aked them to have clear-cut regulation on fare... DGCA and airline were alo part of the meeting, Venugopal aid.
On June 12, Air India Flight AI-171, a Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner, crahed hortly after takeoff from Ahmedabad Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport. It truck a hotel building of BJ Medical College, killing 241 of the 242 people on board, including former Gujarat Chief Miniter Vijay Rupani.
The Aircraft Accident Invetigation Bureau (AAIB) ha ubmitted it preliminary report to the Minitry of Civil Aviation and other authoritie. According to ource, the crah protection module (CPM) from one of the black boxe wa retrieved, and the data wa uccefully downloaded on June 25 at the AAIB Lab in Delhi. To verify the data, an identical unit known a a golden chai wa ued.
The invetigation i being led by the AAIB Director General and include expert from the Indian Air Force, Hindutan Aeronautic Limited (HAL), and the US-baed National Tranportation Safety Board (NTSB), which i the deignated invetigation body from the country of the aircraft deign. Aviation medicine and air traffic control expert are alo part of the team.
According to official, thi i the firt time India i decoding black box data dometically. On June 25, the memory module wa uccefully acceed and it data wa downloaded at the AAIB Lab, the official aid.
After the Pahalgam attack on April 22, tourit who were tranded in the Kahmir valley had to hell out a hefty amount of money to fly back to their home town, a flight ticket had exorbitantly rien, apparently becaue of heavy demand.
Air fare to major Indian citie were kyrocketed ince the new of the terrorit attack broke out. Searche on the webite of airline operator either how elevated ticket price or indicate that ticket are old out.
Anyone who tried to book a ticket would encounter meage uch a all flight are too cloe to departure, old out, or unfortunately, there are no flight available.
Afterward, Union Civil Aviation Miniter Ram Mohan Naidu Kinjarapu aid the government i making effort to enure the afe travel of tourit from Srinagar and alo iued trict intruction to Airline to avoid any fare urge.
In a pot on X, Naidu aid, In the wake of the tragic terror attack, we are contantly making effort to enure afe travel of tourit from Srinagar. Strict intruction were given to Airline companie to avoid any fare urge, Fare are being monitored and kept at reaonable level. (ANI)

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