Don’t travel by air, the Supreme Court told a petitioner on Monday (November 2, 2026) while refusing urgent listing of a plea alleging nearly 700% increase in airfares.
The Supreme Court is already hearing a separate petition filed by social activist S. Laxminarayanan’s plea. During a hearing on that plea on October 16, the Centre informed the Supreme Court that administrative approval has been granted to rules under a 2024 legislation aimed at regulating India’s aviation sector, and is likely to be published in two weeks. The Supreme Court had 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 — November 16. On August 17, the Centre told the Supreme Court that it had fast-tracked the framing of rules under the Bharatiya Vayuyan Adhiniyam, aimed at modernising India’s aviation sector.
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 “unpredictable fluctuations” in airfare and ancillary charges imposed by private airlines in India. the Supreme Court had said it would interfere with the “unpredictable fluctuations” in airfares and flagged the exorbitant rise during festivals While hearing the matter in January.
In November last year, the Supreme Court sought responses from the Centre and others on Mr.
