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Blog Entry# 1875675
Posted: Jun 01 2016 (23:39)

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Last Response: Jun 11 2016 (19:25)
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Jun 01 2016 (23:39)   12951/Mumbai Central - New Delhi Tejas Rajdhani Express
 
Husena Slatewala
Husena Slatewala   26 blog posts
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I was comparing air fares between metros (Mumbai-Delhi, Kolkata- Delhi, Chennai-Delhi, Bangalore-Delhi etc) and found out that even fares for travel dates of just 1 week in advance right now are almost equal to 2A fares on Rajdhanis and slightly above normal 2A fares. If you book more in advance, you can even get cheaper fares. Given this scenario, why would anyone travel by train (I am not talking about intermediate passengers) when they can fly and save 90% of the time for almost the same fare. Even 3A passengers can pay slightly more and fly. The Indian government should now focus on aviation as much as they do on railways as air travel is the way of the future. Aviation should now be given lot of importance and rules and regulations should be changed such that it favors air travel. Railways is also important, no doubt.
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Air Travel is affordable and efficient ????
Lol...Airlines are Private companies...We all saw what happened with Kingfisher airlines...How it got vanished Overnight....Air India is also on same path...If Govt stops funding Air India , soon it will also get vanished....Our Aviation Fuel is 100% imported..so means if We have to make our Airplanes fly in Air , then we have to keep on Asking Persian Gulf , Europe countries to Import us Aviation Fuels.
A country Can't Never sustain only on the shoulder of Airlines.
China
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Is NOT FOOL to invest Huge amount of money just to lay down tracks and tracks...If China kind of Country is doing its best for developing Railways structure , then whats the problem with Us ?? We are far MORE POORER than China.
Northeast states people regularly use Flights to travel as they don't have proper Railways connectivity , but still when Tracks reached northeast for 1st time , they welcomed it and celebrated for it.
Indian Railways is the FACE of India.

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