{"id":261696,"date":"2019-02-28T06:13:50","date_gmt":"2019-02-28T06:13:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=261696"},"modified":"2019-02-28T06:13:50","modified_gmt":"2019-02-28T06:13:50","slug":"soon-air-travellers-to-have-right-to-alternate-flight-ticket-refund-in-case-of-delay-govt-proposes-charter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/soon-air-travellers-to-have-right-to-alternate-flight-ticket-refund-in-case-of-delay-govt-proposes-charter\/","title":{"rendered":"Soon, air travellers to have right to alternate flight, ticket refund in case of delay; govt proposes charter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Civil Aviation Minister Suresh Prabhu released the passenger charter Wednesday which specifies rights of air travellers.<\/p>\n<p>The charter states that if a domestic flight is expected to be delayed by more than six hours, then the airline would offer an option of \u201calternate flight\u201d to the passenger within that time, or it will refund the full price of the ticket.<\/p>\n<p>It also said that if a passenger is informed of flight cancellation less than two weeks before departure, the airline must offer an alternate flight to passenger or refund the ticket completely.<\/p>\n<p>At the time of booking, the airline must clearly \u201cindicate\u201d the amount of refund money that will be given to passenger in case of cancellation, the charter states.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Civil Aviation Minister Suresh Prabhu released the passenger charter Wednesday which specifies rights of air travellers. The charter states that if a domestic flight is expected to be delayed by more than six hours, then the airline would offer an option of \u201calternate flight\u201d to the passenger within that time, or it will refund the full price of the ticket. It also said that if a passenger is informed of flight cancellation less than two weeks before departure, the airline must offer an alternate flight to passenger or refund the ticket completely. At the time of booking, the airline must [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[196,130,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-261696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261696","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\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261696\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}