Pa­tri­ot­ic Front po­lit­i­cal leader Mick­ela Pan­day says cit­i­zens are fac­ing fur­ther fi­nan­cial strain as the Gov­ern­ment weighs a sig­nif­i­cant in­crease in do­mes­tic air­fares.

On Thurs­day, Trade, In­vest­ment and Tourism Min­is­ter Satyaka­ma Ma­haraj re­vealed that mem­bers of the pub­lic could pay from $960 to $1,000 to trav­el be­tween Trinidad and To­ba­go via Caribbean Air­lines un­der peak-pe­ri­od pric­ing, as the Gov­ern­ment con­sid­ers a pro­posed plan to in­tro­duce un­sub­sidised flights on the do­mes­tic air­bridge.

In a state­ment to­day, Pan­day said the pro­pos­al would deep­en the fi­nan­cial bur­den on cit­i­zens al­ready grap­pling with ris­ing costs.