NEW DELHI: The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has asked airlines to waive cancellation and rescheduling charges due to the coronavirus epidemic which has severely impacted travel. The directive is largely aimed at international airlines as domestic carriers have already done the same.
\n\u201cIn view of the unfolding severe impact of COVID-19, the aviation industry is facing serious challenges. Flights are being curtailed, cancelled and disrupted almost on a daily basis. Resultantly, passengers are also facing the brunt. Their travel plans are also getting hit and disturbed. In the current scenario, it would be appropriate if airlines support their passengers in this tough time by waiving off cancellation\/reschedule charges or by providing any other incentive,\u201d says the note issued to all schedule airlines on Friday.
\n\u201cIn light of hardship faced by passengers, airlines may like to consider and take an appropriate call, accordingly,\u201d it adds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
NEW DELHI: The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has asked airlines to waive cancellation and rescheduling charges due to the coronavirus epidemic which has severely impacted travel. The directive is largely aimed at international airlines as domestic carriers have already done the same. \u201cIn view of the unfolding severe impact of COVID-19, the aviation industry is facing serious challenges. Flights are being curtailed, cancelled and disrupted almost on a daily basis. Resultantly, passengers are also facing the brunt. Their travel plans are also getting hit and disturbed. In the current scenario, it would be appropriate if airlines support their […]<\/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":[220,130,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-342010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342010","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=342010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342010\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}