{"id":372308,"date":"2020-09-07T12:01:03","date_gmt":"2020-09-07T06:31:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=372308"},"modified":"2020-09-07T12:59:06","modified_gmt":"2020-09-07T07:29:06","slug":"airlines-required-to-refund-passengers-but-forcing-them-may-be-counter-productive-dgca-to-sc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/airlines-required-to-refund-passengers-but-forcing-them-may-be-counter-productive-dgca-to-sc\/","title":{"rendered":"Airlines required to refund passengers, but forcing them may be \u2018counter-productive\u2019: DGCA to SC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Airlines are required to refund passengers for flights cancelled during the Covid-driven lockdown period but forcing them to do so may be \u201ccounter-productive\u201d in view of the liquidity crunch the sector is facing, the Director General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has told the Supreme Court while suggesting a \u201cworkable solution\u201d that considered the best interests of flyers as well as companies.<\/p>\n<p>In an affidavit filed in the SC, the DGCA has said airlines should \u201cimmediately\u201d refund the ticket fares of passengers who booked their tickets during the lockdown period \u2014 between March 25 and May 3 \u2014 and were scheduled to travel in the period. However, for carriers facing \u201cfinancial distress\u201d, it has suggested setting up a transferable credit shell with life up to March 31, 2021 and a refund if the shell remains unused after that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Airlines are required to refund passengers for flights cancelled during the Covid-driven lockdown period but forcing them to do so may be \u201ccounter-productive\u201d in view of the liquidity crunch the sector is facing, the Director General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has told the Supreme Court while suggesting a \u201cworkable solution\u201d that considered the best interests of flyers as well as companies. In an affidavit filed in the SC, the DGCA has said airlines should \u201cimmediately\u201d refund the ticket fares of passengers who booked their tickets during the lockdown period \u2014 between March 25 and May 3 \u2014 and were scheduled [&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-372308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372308","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=372308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372308\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}