Air-India will levy a fuel surcharge on air tickets effective Wednesday.

While the surcharge would be $4 per sector for all destinations operated by Air-India, it would be $9 for destinations in United States.

A spokesman of Air-India said that the airline had to impose the fuel surcharge in view of the continuing rise in global fuel prices.

It is well known that the fuel prices in India have always been much higher than the prevailing global prices, thus having a more severe impact on Air-India's operational costs, he said.

Many other international carriers have already imposed fuel surcharge, he added.