{"id":410344,"date":"2021-04-12T11:36:01","date_gmt":"2021-04-12T06:06:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=410344"},"modified":"2021-04-12T12:46:48","modified_gmt":"2021-04-12T07:16:48","slug":"air-india-should-obey-sc-ticket-refund-order-legal-consumer-organisations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/air-india-should-obey-sc-ticket-refund-order-legal-consumer-organisations\/","title":{"rendered":"Air India should obey SC ticket-refund order: Legal consumer organisations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>National carrier Air India is continuing to protect the air ticket money of passengers affected due to the lockdown, even after the deadline of March 31, 2021. The Supreme Court had, on October 1 last year, issued an order directing all airlines to provide full refund to passengers and allowed only airlines facing financial issues to refund or provide credit shells till March 2021.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe face-value of the ticket is protected against any travel planned in future by the passengers. To provide reassurance and comfort to passengers during the pandemic days, Air India had extended the validity of tickets till March 31, 2021. However, as it was observed that the Covid situation was continuing, the validity for all tickets was further extended up to December 31, 2021, by a circular dated June 17, 2020,\u201d the airline spokesperson said in response to the paper\u2019s query.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile Air India extended benefits to passengers in the form of name, however, Air India has never offered a credit shell to passengers due to its specific system configuration. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National carrier Air India is continuing to protect the air ticket money of passengers affected due to the lockdown, even after the deadline of March 31, 2021. The Supreme Court had, on October 1 last year, issued an order directing all airlines to provide full refund to passengers and allowed only airlines facing financial issues to refund or provide credit shells till March 2021. \u201cThe face-value of the ticket is protected against any travel planned in future by the passengers. To provide reassurance and comfort to passengers during the pandemic days, Air India had extended the validity of tickets till [&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-410344","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\/410344","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=410344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410344\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}