{"id":347134,"date":"2020-04-17T11:56:43","date_gmt":"2020-04-17T06:26:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=347134"},"modified":"2020-04-17T11:56:43","modified_gmt":"2020-04-17T06:26:43","slug":"govt-tells-airlines-to-refund-fares-for-bookings-during-lockdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/govt-tells-airlines-to-refund-fares-for-bookings-during-lockdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt tells airlines to refund fares for bookings during lockdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI : Airlines will have to refund full fares, without imposing cancellation charges, to those who booked tickets during the first lockdown from 25 March to 14 April for travel between 25 March and 3 May, the civil aviation ministry said on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The ministry has asked the Directorate General of Civil Aviation to ensure airlines comply with its directive.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGrievances were received from air travellers regarding refund for flights cancelled because of the nationwide lockdown to combat COVID19. Advisories have been issued regarding refund for both domestic &amp; international tickets booked for the flights suspended due to lockdown,&#8221; civil aviation minister Hardeep Singh Puri said on Twitter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI : Airlines will have to refund full fares, without imposing cancellation charges, to those who booked tickets during the first lockdown from 25 March to 14 April for travel between 25 March and 3 May, the civil aviation ministry said on Thursday. The ministry has asked the Directorate General of Civil Aviation to ensure airlines comply with its directive. \u201cGrievances were received from air travellers regarding refund for flights cancelled because of the nationwide lockdown to combat COVID19. Advisories have been issued regarding refund for both domestic &amp; international tickets booked for the flights suspended due to lockdown,&#8221; [&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-347134","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\/347134","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=347134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}