{"id":390675,"date":"2020-12-21T12:06:27","date_gmt":"2020-12-21T06:36:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=390675"},"modified":"2020-12-21T13:35:03","modified_gmt":"2020-12-21T08:05:03","slug":"airlines-balk-at-refunds-as-uk-tells-travellers-not-to-fly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/airlines-balk-at-refunds-as-uk-tells-travellers-not-to-fly\/","title":{"rendered":"Airlines balk at refunds as UK tells travellers not to fly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>British Airways and Virgin Atlantic Airways Ltd. aren\u2019t offering refunds to passengers who cancel year-end trips following new U.K. coronavirus rules, even as regulators investigate carriers\u2019 earlier refusal to hand cash back to customers caught in lockdown.<\/p>\n<p>IAG SA-owned BA will grant ticket holders a voucher or let them switch to a later date, it said in an emailed statement. It said it will only refund fares if the airline cancels a flight, a policy echoed by Virgin Atlantic in a Twitter post.<\/p>\n<p>The refund issue ignited a firestorm when similar curbs were in place last month. The UK Competition and Markets Authority launched a probe last week into whether airlines violated consumer rights by failing to offer passengers their money back for flights they couldn\u2019t lawfully take.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British Airways and Virgin Atlantic Airways Ltd. aren\u2019t offering refunds to passengers who cancel year-end trips following new U.K. coronavirus rules, even as regulators investigate carriers\u2019 earlier refusal to hand cash back to customers caught in lockdown. IAG SA-owned BA will grant ticket holders a voucher or let them switch to a later date, it said in an emailed statement. It said it will only refund fares if the airline cancels a flight, a policy echoed by Virgin Atlantic in a Twitter post. The refund issue ignited a firestorm when similar curbs were in place last month. The UK Competition [&hellip;]<\/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":[184,141,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-390675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-hindustantimes","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390675","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=390675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390675\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}