Surge Pricing

Driver salaries down 33% as Ola, Uber focus on profitability; passengers seeing rise in surge pricing

Despite strong opposition by drivers, cab aggregators continued to reduce expenditure on incentives with Bengaluru and Delhi seeing the biggest incentive drop in April-June 2017

Dear Uber, do you really 'love' the taxi-riders in Mumbai?

If it really cares about the customer, why is Uber shying away from a maximum fare restriction

Uber and Ola looking to offer corporate, non-surge plans for government and PSUs

Uber and Ola are looking at offering taxi services to government departments at special rates and have registered at the portal of government e-marketplace (GeM). Besides, Ola is also in discussions with various public sector units (PSUs) for its 'corporate’ offering.

Mr Railway Minister, this feels like extortion; why not have a small hike across the board?

It takes political courage to hike passenger fares. Since Suresh Prabhu has proved, like PM Narendra Modi, that he is not averse to taking risks, he should have gone for hike for all classes in all trains.

Suresh Prabhu's rail ministry is learning from the airlines industry, but all the wrong things

Make no mistake about it, Union railways minister Suresh Prabhu's attempt to introduce 'surge pricing' on some premium trains on the pretext of emulating the aviation sector is plain loot and misuse

Dynamic pricing: Why Indian Railways may have to tweak its strategy after review

It remains to be seen whether the railways will be able to meet the targeted Rs 500 crore revenue from this much-resented system

Indian Railways: Dynamic pricing on the nation's transporter would need strong rationale

A new announcement reveals the surge pricing strategy by the Indian Railways for premium trains.

'Surge pricing is looting the user': Indian Railways' latest move slammed on Twitter

Passengers travelling by Rajdhani, Shatabdi and Duronto trains will have to shell out between 10 and 50 percent more under a dynamic surge pricing system to be introduced from 9 September, aimed at raking in Rs 500 crore more during the current financial year.

Indian Railways' surge pricing: Why strategy for premium trains is myopic and bad move

The surge pricing as a business strategy is myopic. In the short run, passengers may be willing to pay and Indian Railways may also make some money. But in the long run, it will turn them away

Congress terms railways' surge pricing 'anti-people', 'illegal' move for 'stealing' money from public

Passengers travelling by Rajdhani, Shatadbi and Duronto trains will have to shell out between 10 and 50 per cent more under a dynamic surge pricing system