{"id":347469,"date":"2020-04-20T11:08:53","date_gmt":"2020-04-20T05:38:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=347469"},"modified":"2020-04-20T11:47:34","modified_gmt":"2020-04-20T06:17:34","slug":"iata-agents-seek-full-refund-for-air-tickets-booked-before-march-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/iata-agents-seek-full-refund-for-air-tickets-booked-before-march-24\/","title":{"rendered":"IATA agents seek full refund for air tickets booked before March 24"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>IATA Agents Association of India (IAAI) and its initiative IAAI Air Passenger Rights Forum have jointly urged the Civil Aviation Ministry to direct airlines to give a full refund or provide the ease of rescheduling validity for 365 days for tickets issued on or before March 24.<\/p>\n<p>The latest communication by the Ministry \u2015 with regard to refund of air tickets during the lockdown period \u2015 did not mention the refund of tickets booked and issued on or before March 24. It was silent on the bookings for travel beyond May 3. The full refund would be for passengers who booked air tickets from March 25 to April 14 and up to May 3.<\/p>\n<p>It is unfair and discriminatory not to have a similar refund policy for passengers who have booked tickets much before but could not travel during the period from the advisories on the travel ban cancellations and total lockdown, said Biji Eapen, President IAAI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IATA Agents Association of India (IAAI) and its initiative IAAI Air Passenger Rights Forum have jointly urged the Civil Aviation Ministry to direct airlines to give a full refund or provide the ease of rescheduling validity for 365 days for tickets issued on or before March 24. The latest communication by the Ministry \u2015 with regard to refund of air tickets during the lockdown period \u2015 did not mention the refund of tickets booked and issued on or before March 24. It was silent on the bookings for travel beyond May 3. The full refund would be for passengers who [&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":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-347469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347469","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=347469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347469\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}