Brindavan Express - ರೈಲು ಹೆಸರು ಬೃಂದಾವನ್ ,ಇದು ಯಾವಾಗಲೂ Number 1 - Vijay Baradwaj

Many lacunae in the article
* Air transport is the costliest, most energy inefficient and polluting mode of transportation. It should never be promoted at the cost of more efficient rail transportation.
* Air transport has a share of less than 1% of national transport and is branded as the transportation of the riches.
* It would not be fair to state...
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that Govt is neglecting or dooming the aviation sector, as reported in the article.
* Air traffic in increasing at break neck speed of 20-24% per annum since last few years, then how can one say that aviation sector is being doomed!!!! On the other hand cost efficient IR traffic is hardly growing @ 2-4% per annum!
* In fact Govt is giving huge subsidies to inefficient Air India to the tune of Rs 1000s of crores every year, in spite of the fact that this sector is exclusively used by the riches.
* On the contrary to the article, Under new aviation policy, a large number of tax incentives are proposed to be given under UDAAN scheme to promote commercial air flights to non-metro locations. Such incentives are not available to middle class ac travellers of IRlys!
* Above article report Delhi Shimla flight shall be 2500/- is not fully correct, fare of Rs. 2500/- is the upper limit fixed by Govt. If sufficient traffic exist on the Delhi-Shimla route, airline operators may offer seats for Rs 1500/- or even lesser! Once Shatabdi & private car/ taxi (Rich/Upper middle) paxs start migrating to UDAAN flight, the air fares Delhi-Shimla shall fall drastically (1000-2500 bracket)and in that case IR shall struggle to attract paxs at normal fare, and the flexi-dynamic fares may be a thing of past.
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* One point to which I fully agree is the the unethical act of IR to profiteer from middle class passengers (especially from ACIII, ACC, ACII class pax while sparing the rich-ACI, EC classes) in name of PremiumTatkal, Suvidha, Flexi fares etc.
* If a private trader hoard goods, create a shortage in market and artificially jacks up price of essential commodities, it is called hoarding & black marketing, which is a punishable offence. And if IR does the same, by hoarding 90% of seats for flexifare, and creating artificial shortage of already in-short train berths, and start charging upto 1.5 times the normal fare (4 times in PT/Suvidha), then it is called marketing policy! I have never heard any tout charging 4 times the normal fare from clients for a reserved berth during any season/ emergency, but IR regularly does it.