Lockdown-related cancellations: Supreme Court reserves order on airfare refund

The government on Friday told the Supreme Court that the best way to compensate the passengers will be to either to give full refund of air tickets or transferable travel vouchers, but the credit shell facility could not be availed by travel agents who would have booked tickets for the passengers during the Covid lockdown.

Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, appearing for the Directorate General of Civil Aviation, told a bench led by justice Ashok Bhushan that the credit shell facility for tickets booked during the lockdown period will only be applicable to passengers who could not avail flights and that no such credit shell would be given to the travel agents.