English | Telugu
‘Flexi fare system has got good response’
Updated : Sep 12, 2016
NEW DELHI: Mohammad Jamshed, a Railway board member said that, their flexi fare system had got a good response and the passengers had responded well to the scheme as there was about 30% booking in the last two days.It is known that, the flexi rate system had been introduced by the railways in Shatabdi, Duronto and Rajdhani expresses from 9th of September and according to Jamshed, the railways had earned Rs.84 lakh and Rs.81 lakh more on September 9th and 10th due to the flexi fare system. It had been accused that the train fares had become costlier than air fares. Jamshed responded to the accusation and said to the reporters that, despite of flexi-fare system, train cost was still lower than the airfare.