The incident at the Kozhikode airport, where an Air India Express plane crashed due to a runway excursion, claimed 20 lives and left over 130 people injured. If you\u2019re someone who travels by air, it would be useful to know the kind of compensation that airlines are liable to offer in case of an accident.<\/p>\n
An airline has to pay compensation if it is at fault for cancellation or delay, denial of boarding and baggage loss. \u201cAirlines are also liable to pay if a passenger dies or undergoes bodily injuries on-board an aircraft. This claim is as per the Montreal Convention (MC99) protocol as accepted by India in 2009,” said Akanksha Anshu, co-founder and managing director, Refundme.in, a company that helps air passengers to claim compensation.<\/p>\n
The liability limit in case of death or injury is up to 1,13,100 SDR (special drawing rights). As on 21 August, one SDR is equal to $1.422. The actual compensation will depend on a number of factors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The incident at the Kozhikode airport, where an Air India Express plane crashed due to a runway excursion, claimed 20 lives and left over 130 people injured. If you\u2019re someone who travels by air, it would be useful to know the kind of compensation that airlines are liable to offer in case of an accident. An airline has to pay compensation if it is at fault for cancellation or delay, denial of boarding and baggage loss. \u201cAirlines are also liable to pay if a passenger dies or undergoes bodily injuries on-board an aircraft. This claim is as per the Montreal […]<\/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-369701","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\/369701","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=369701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369701\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}