Thursday, August 22, 2024 By now, price for flight tickets have increased a lot, loaded even more with several additional charges that can make travel even costlier. In 2022, 1 in 3 consumers who had booked flights had said that the airlines were charging extra fee for seat allotment on the plane. In the current context, a recent social media post made by advocate Shrayansh Singh with regard to enquiring IndiGo’s ‘Cute Fee’ has kindled extensive debate in terms of the transparency and validation of numerous airport fees.
He funnily enquired whether the charge was for being ‘cute’ or its someway connected to the personal cuteness of the airline, which in a second arrested the attention of the netizens and flickered a prominent retort from the airline company. If we go back to the original tweet of Singh, he had shown his utter dissatisfaction with the ‘Cute Fee,’ together with sundry other charges like the Aviation Security Fee, User Development Fee, to name a few, which he highlighted as pretty indistinct and apparently illogical. Singh directly inquired about what exactly is this ‘Cute Fee’.
Do the company charge passengers for being delightful? Or they charge users because they consider that their aircrafts are cute. The tweet readily went viral. Many users started resounding the concerns highlighted by Singh and expressing their own experiences related to the fees of the airlines.
On the other hand, the airline responded to Singh’s query fast by elucida.