Experts in Centre for Asia-Pacific say that now the rise in jet fuel and operational costs have take

Most of the fares advertised are introductory offers which are given in small print to lure the passengers from full-service airlines. When one books at a short notice, the fares are no more cheap whereas full-service airlines which operate holiday inn express uk bigger aircraft with more seats give lower fares when they have vacant seats.
Low-cost carriers after getting holiday inn express uk passengers on board have now dumped the offers and even during non-peak season, has nothing less than Rs 5000 and rarely at Rs 4000. In fact, passengers can pay this fare to full- service airlines and get food and beverages.
The low-cost carriers sell tickets at Rs 3000 and after that, they do not put any in that range. Yet another tactic is to advertise the basic fare package and again a small print says conditions apply . The ticket when billed comes with all the taxes to be paid by the aircraft for operating the flight.
A tourist who flew in September last year from Goa to Mumbai shelled out Rs 2800. Now, this year he has paid Rs 3900 and this was not a peak season in Goa. Websites of this low-cost airlines show tickets in the range of Rs 9000 since the tourists will come in as winter sets in and it would shoot up in December as Christmas and New year arrive.
Even in the Delhi-Mumbai sector, airfares ranging holiday inn express uk from Rs 15000 was pegged at Rs 8000 last year. Tour operators now book on full-service airlines since they offer cheap fares. A tour operator who booked tickets for his clients travelling a week before Diwali on a Mumbai-Delhi round trip was given tickets at Rs 9000 by Air India but the cheap fare airlines GoAir and Indigo offered him a ticket at Rs 16000.
Funnily, the tour operator got tickets from Jet Airways for Rs 9000 for the same weekend while its subsidiary JetKonnect, the low-cost airline offered ticket for Rs 13,000 for the same route of Kolkata–Mumbai.
Experts in Centre for Asia-Pacific say that now the rise in jet fuel and operational costs have taken away the gap in fares between low and full fare airlines, they now have middle or high fares and rarely if seats are empty, low fares are offered and that too just before the check-in time at the airport.