China Restricts Air Tickets Discount

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China Restricts Air Tickets Discount

China's civil aviation administration is to take tougher meansures against air tickets discount, leaving passengers unlikely to get cheaper air tickets for major air routes.

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China's civil aviation administration sets to launch tougher control over air tickets, leaving passengers unlikely to get discounted air tickets for major air routes.

In the case of the Beijing-Shanghai route, passengers will have to pay 970 yuan since the beginning of April, whereas there were discounts of between 40 and 60 percent during the first quarter of the year.

Li Jun, the administration's vice-minister, said that only with a stable ticket priceing can domestic airlines seek long-term healthy development.

22 major domestic airlines involved

The civil aviation administration wrapped 22 major domestic airlines up into a no-discount agreement at a conference held last week in Changsha, capital of Central China's Hunan province.

The airlines promised that they would not violate related ticket-price policies covering 113 domestic air routes. Nearly all the most lucrative routes were included in the agreement.

To better up the profitability of the demestic aviation industry, the administration increased its supervision over ticket prices for 10 major Chinese cities including Beijing, Chengdu, Shenzhen, Xi'an and Xiamen.

Fourteen regular flights from nine airlines had been stopped last week because of discrepancies in ticket sales, according to sources close to administration.

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