Plea on air fare spikes: Centre informs Supreme Court new rules approved

Business Standard · 16/10/2026, 5:55:40 pm

The Centre on Friday informed the Supreme Court that administrative approval has been granted to rules under the 2024 Act aimed at regulating and controlling India's aviation sector, and is likely to be published in two weeks. A bench of Justices Vikram Nath, R Mahadevan and Aparesh Kumar Singh asked Solicitor General Tushar Mehta to place the published rules under the Bharatiya Vayuyan Adhiniyam, 2024 before the court on the next date of hearing. At the outset, Mehta said, "The rules have been finalised and the administrative approval to the rules has been granted. The same would be published within two weeks." The bench posted the matter for hearing on November 16. The court was hearing a plea filed by social activist S Laxminarayanan, who has sought a robust and independent regulator that ensures transparency and passenger protection across the civil aviation sector and regulatory guidelines to control the "unpredictable fluctuations" in airfare and ancillary charges imposed by