Rules For Children Ticket: Rules have been made for children in train, flight and bus. There are different rules for children up to this age. Let us tell you children up to which age are not required to pay ticket.
If plane, train and bus are combined, then in India, crores of passengers travel from one place to another every day. Many of them travel by plane. Many people travel by train and many people travel by bus.
Many families also travel among them. Who also have small children with them. Do you know that if small children travel in plane, train or bus. Then they are not required to pay ticket. For children up to what age this rule applies, let us tell you.
If a child is traveling in a plane. So let us tell you that for children up to 2 years of age, you do not have to take any separate ticket during the journey in the plane. However, you may have to pay some charges. Which may vary according to different airlines.
Talking about trains, if a family is travelling with a child up to 5 years of age, then there is no need to buy a ticket for them. But this rule applies only when no separate seat is booked for the child.
On the other hand, if a separate seat/berth is booked for children between 5 years to 11 years of age, then fare has to be paid for it. However, 50% discount is given in the fare. If a child is more than 12 years of age, then he will have to pay the full ticket, which is charged for an adult.
If we talk about buses, then there can be different rules for government and private buses. Generally, if a seat is not booked for children up to 5 years of age, then fare does not have to be paid. On the other hand, children above 5 years of age are given tickets at a lower price.
Let us tell you that there can be changes in the rules of flights and buses. Before travelling, you must check this with the airline and the bus operator once. Train rules are implemented by Indian Railways. Which are applicable in all trains.