{"id":443686,"date":"2021-10-20T11:52:21","date_gmt":"2021-10-20T06:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=443686"},"modified":"2021-10-20T12:39:05","modified_gmt":"2021-10-20T07:09:05","slug":"air-india-penalised-for-not-refunding-ticket-upgrade-fee-to-panchkula-resident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/air-india-penalised-for-not-refunding-ticket-upgrade-fee-to-panchkula-resident\/","title":{"rendered":"Air India penalised for not refunding ticket upgrade fee to Panchkula resident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The District Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission has directed Air India to refund the economy-to-business upgrade fee to a Panchkula resident.<\/p>\n<p>Apart from the upgrade fee of \u20b938,508, along with 9% interest, the airline has also been told to pay the complainant \u20b95,000 as compensation for causing mental agony and harassment, and \u20b95,000 as litigation cost.<\/p>\n<p>In his complaint, Pankaj Kumar Mahajan, a resident of Sector 6, Panchkula, had said that he had booked tickets for an Air India flight to travel from Delhi to Colombo, Sri Lanka, on February 16, 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The District Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission has directed Air India to refund the economy-to-business upgrade fee to a Panchkula resident. Apart from the upgrade fee of \u20b938,508, along with 9% interest, the airline has also been told to pay the complainant \u20b95,000 as compensation for causing mental agony and harassment, and \u20b95,000 as litigation cost. In his complaint, Pankaj Kumar Mahajan, a resident of Sector 6, Panchkula, had said that he had booked tickets for an Air India flight to travel from Delhi to Colombo, Sri Lanka, on February 16, 2019.<\/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-443686","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\/443686","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=443686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443686\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}