{"id":341905,"date":"2020-03-16T11:00:35","date_gmt":"2020-03-16T05:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=341905"},"modified":"2020-03-16T11:00:35","modified_gmt":"2020-03-16T05:30:35","slug":"coronavirus-dgca-asks-airlines-to-waive-cancellation-fee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/coronavirus-dgca-asks-airlines-to-waive-cancellation-fee\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus: DGCA asks airlines to waive cancellation fee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI : In the wake of rising number of cases of coronavirus (COVID-19) cases, civil aviation regulator has asked airlines to waive the cancellation fee and flight rescheduling charges.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the view of the unfolding severe impact of COVID-19, the aviation industry is facing severe challenges. Flights are being curtailed cancelled and disrupted almost on a daily basis&#8230; it would be appropriate if the airlines support their passengers in this tough time by waiving off cancellation\/reschedule charges or by providing any other incentive,&#8221; Director General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>IndiGo, country&#8217;s largest domestic airline, on Wednesday said that the airline has seen a 15-20% decline in bookings during the last few weeks, due to the outbreak of COVID-19. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI : In the wake of rising number of cases of coronavirus (COVID-19) cases, civil aviation regulator has asked airlines to waive the cancellation fee and flight rescheduling charges. \u201cIn the view of the unfolding severe impact of COVID-19, the aviation industry is facing severe challenges. Flights are being curtailed cancelled and disrupted almost on a daily basis&#8230; it would be appropriate if the airlines support their passengers in this tough time by waiving off cancellation\/reschedule charges or by providing any other incentive,&#8221; Director General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) said in a statement. IndiGo, country&#8217;s largest domestic airline, on [&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-341905","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\/341905","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=341905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341905\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}