{"id":261778,"date":"2019-02-28T06:55:48","date_gmt":"2019-02-28T06:55:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=261778"},"modified":"2019-02-28T07:02:25","modified_gmt":"2019-02-28T07:02:25","slug":"flight-ticket-cancellations-refunds-now-made-easy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/flight-ticket-cancellations-refunds-now-made-easy\/","title":{"rendered":"Flight ticket cancellations, refunds now made easy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Air travellers will be able to cancel or amend flight tickets without any charges within 24 hours of booking if the travel date is at least a week away, according to the passenger rights charter announced by the government on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The final charter, released by civil aviation minister Suresh Prabhu after nine months of consultation with airlines, also mandates carriers to compensate passengers in addition to refunding ticket cost in full or to provide alternate flights acceptable to passengers when they are not intimated about flight cancellations at least a day before.<\/p>\n<p>The compensation will be in the range of \u20b95,000-10,000 depending on the travel time or one-way base fare plus airline fuel charge, whichever is less.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Air travellers will be able to cancel or amend flight tickets without any charges within 24 hours of booking if the travel date is at least a week away, according to the passenger rights charter announced by the government on Wednesday. The final charter, released by civil aviation minister Suresh Prabhu after nine months of consultation with airlines, also mandates carriers to compensate passengers in addition to refunding ticket cost in full or to provide alternate flights acceptable to passengers when they are not intimated about flight cancellations at least a day before. The compensation will be in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"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-261778","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\/261778","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\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261778\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}