{"id":351215,"date":"2020-05-14T10:51:41","date_gmt":"2020-05-14T05:21:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=351215"},"modified":"2020-05-14T11:26:25","modified_gmt":"2020-05-14T05:56:25","slug":"allow-airlines-to-give-delayed-refund-vouchers-to-passengers-iata","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/allow-airlines-to-give-delayed-refund-vouchers-to-passengers-iata\/","title":{"rendered":"Allow airlines to give delayed refund vouchers to passengers : IATA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Global airlines should be allowed to give delayed refund vouchers to passengers affected by cancellation of flights due to the global spread of Covid-19, the International Air Transport Association (IATA) said on Wednesday. In April this year IATA had said that around $35 billion worth of refunds were due by the end of the second quarter. <\/p>\n<p>Addressing a global media conference, Alexandre de Juniac, Director General and Chief Executive Officer of IATA, said such a move would help airlines save precious cash and also ensure passengers looking for a refund get their money back. IATA represents the interests of around 290 airlines globally that comprise 82 per cent of global air traffic. <\/p>\n<p>While the CEO\u2019s remarks were in response to a specific question on what is happening in Europe, the refund and voucher rules are likely to be applied globally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Global airlines should be allowed to give delayed refund vouchers to passengers affected by cancellation of flights due to the global spread of Covid-19, the International Air Transport Association (IATA) said on Wednesday. In April this year IATA had said that around $35 billion worth of refunds were due by the end of the second quarter. Addressing a global media conference, Alexandre de Juniac, Director General and Chief Executive Officer of IATA, said such a move would help airlines save precious cash and also ensure passengers looking for a refund get their money back. IATA represents the interests of around [&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-351215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351215","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=351215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}