With low-cost airlines steadily eating into the railways’ share of long-distance travel for the upper segments, the transporter’s strategy to retain traffic centres around much faster...
Rajdhanis/ Gatimaans can never beat Aeroplanes in matter of speed/ journey time and cannot attract paxs from airlines. For IR, the best way to attract more paxs. is by keeping the ac train fare much lower than airline fares. IR should keep fares reasonable and increase the volume to earn bigger market share and more profits. Air routes between these metros are very busy and competitive, IR can attract more pax if it also do away with flexi/Suvidha/Special fares rather than just increasing the speed by 20-30 kmph or reducing journey time... more...
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