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Fact Check: Air India offering only 25% concession but not 50% to senior citizens on flight tickets

An image looking like a WhatsApp chat forward is in circulation on various platforms. The message claims that Air India Tata has announced a 50% concession to senior citizens.

By 6 Jun 2023 11:21 AM GMT
Fact Check: Air India offering only 25% concession but not 50% to senior citizens on flight tickets

An image looking like a WhatsApp chat forward is in circulation on various platforms. The message claims that Air India Tata has announced a 50% concession to senior citizens.

The message claims “Great News, Air India TATA passes the airfare for all senior citizens of Indian nationality and permanently residing in India, over 60 years of age get Air India flight tickets at half the price for travel within India. Please inform senior citizens belonging to your families and friends.”

There is a link in the message – “www.airindia.com/senior-citizen-concession.htm”.

Fact Check:

The message is false. Air India Tata is not providing 50% concession to senior citizens, they are providing 25% concession.

The link provided in the message is not working. When we searched with the keywords “Air India Tata providing 50% concession in airfare”, we found a concession page on the website of Air India that clearly states that 25% of the basic fare is on select booking classes in the economy cabin.

The website states that “a concessionary discount of 25% of basic fare. This is applicable in selected booking classes of economy cabins”. The travellers need to buy the tickets at least 3 days before departure to get the concession.

According to reports, Air India started a discount scheme for senior citizens in December 2020. It introduced a special offer of up to 50% discount on flight tickets. For availing the discount offer run by Air India, senior citizens have to buy flight tickets at least 3 days in advance.

Air India reduced the discount offereto 25% in September 2022. According to Economic Times and others, the airline decided to revise the concessionary fare to 25% after September 29, 2022, considering the overall market situation and dynamics.

https://www.livemint.com/news/india/air-india-senior-citizen-discount-on-flight-tickets-halved-11664508809282.html

Therefore, the message claiming that Air India is giving concessions up to 50% on the flight ticket fare for senior citizens is false. The airline is offering only 25% concession to senior citizens as of date.

Claim :   Air India offering 50% concession for senior citizens
Claimed By :  Social Media Users
Claim Reviewed By :  Telugupost Fact Check
Claim Source :  Social Media
Fact Check :  False
News Summary - Air India offering only 25% concession but not 50% to senior citizens on flight tickets
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A motivated professional with a zeal to learn with more than 7 years of experience as a Content and Digital manager in Press, Electronic, and Digital media. Fact checker with more than 4 years of experience in fact checking. Trained by Google News Initiative India Training Network. Fact check trainer, Factshala Trainer, BBC Young Reporter India Trainer and also participated in Trauma literacy training. Worked in Newsmeter.in as a Fact Check Lead from September 2019 to October 2021. Worked as a Freelance Senior Researcher with BBC World Service, Investigations Unit from January 2022 to Aril 2022 and also as Freelance Fact Checker for Newsmeter.in Also Conducting workshops on Fact Checking for various communities including Media students etc. Conducted fact checking workshops for school students as part of pilot project – BBC Young Reporter India in the past few months. Participated in Workshop on Countering Disinformation for Telugu Television Reporters conducted by US Consulate General and Osmania University in 2022 as Trainer. Trained the journalists on several topics of Fact checking such as Types of misinformation, Tools and Techniques of photo and video verification, Geolocation, writing fact checks, Health fact checking etc. Co-authored the first Fact check manual- “How to write Fact-checks” in Telugu language as part of the workshop. Presently working as Fact check lead in Telugupost.com.
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