{"id":261035,"date":"2019-02-25T05:47:25","date_gmt":"2019-02-25T05:47:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=261035"},"modified":"2019-02-25T05:47:25","modified_gmt":"2019-02-25T05:47:25","slug":"dgca-unlikely-to-make-it-mandatory-to-print-cancellation-charges-on-air-tickets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/dgca-unlikely-to-make-it-mandatory-to-print-cancellation-charges-on-air-tickets\/","title":{"rendered":"DGCA unlikely to make it mandatory to print cancellation charges on air tickets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The DGCA is unlikely to make it compulsory to print cancellation charges on air tickets, with the Indian aviation watchdog suggesting that the charges be &#8220;indicated prominently&#8221; at the time of booking, according to an official document.<\/p>\n<p>In a presentation last month to Minister of State for Civil Aviation Jayant Sinha, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) suggested that the proposed regulation of &#8220;cancellation charges must be printed prominently on the ticket in a conspicuous manner&#8221; be replaced with &#8220;cancellation charges must be indicated prominently at the time of booking&#8221;. The regulation is part of a draft passenger charter.<\/p>\n<p>However, the deliberations on the matter are still on and Sinha has &#8220;desired&#8221; that the draft passenger charter &#8220;be finalised and released&#8221; by February-end, according to the minutes of the meeting where the presentation was made.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The DGCA is unlikely to make it compulsory to print cancellation charges on air tickets, with the Indian aviation watchdog suggesting that the charges be &#8220;indicated prominently&#8221; at the time of booking, according to an official document. In a presentation last month to Minister of State for Civil Aviation Jayant Sinha, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) suggested that the proposed regulation of &#8220;cancellation charges must be printed prominently on the ticket in a conspicuous manner&#8221; be replaced with &#8220;cancellation charges must be indicated prominently at the time of booking&#8221;. The regulation is part of a draft passenger charter. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[188,139,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-261035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261035\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}