{"id":351304,"date":"2020-05-14T11:40:11","date_gmt":"2020-05-14T06:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=351304"},"modified":"2020-05-14T12:09:42","modified_gmt":"2020-05-14T06:39:42","slug":"airlines-have-rs-3700-cr-cash-pile-for-pre-march-25-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/airlines-have-rs-3700-cr-cash-pile-for-pre-march-25-sales\/","title":{"rendered":"Airlines have Rs 3,700 cr cash pile for pre-March 25 sales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Airline companies are sitting on a cash pile of close to Rs 3,700 crore towards the tickets booked before March 25 for travel between March 25 and May 17. This amount is not refunded to passengers and is kept in the credit shells for passengers. <\/p>\n<p>While the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) directed airlines to refund fares for bookings made after March 25, it is silent on bookings made prior to March 25 for the travel during the lockdown period up to May 17. <\/p>\n<p>According to an estimate by online travel agency easemytrip.com, the total value of tickets booked before March 25 but travel after March 25, which is cancelled as per government order, is Rs 3,700 crore. Of this, Rs 2,200 crore is for domestic travel while the rest is for international travel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Airline companies are sitting on a cash pile of close to Rs 3,700 crore towards the tickets booked before March 25 for travel between March 25 and May 17. This amount is not refunded to passengers and is kept in the credit shells for passengers. While the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) directed airlines to refund fares for bookings made after March 25, it is silent on bookings made prior to March 25 for the travel during the lockdown period up to May 17. According to an estimate by online travel agency easemytrip.com, the total value of tickets booked [&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":[176,146,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-351304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351304","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=351304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351304\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}