{"id":498383,"date":"2022-06-15T11:57:22","date_gmt":"2022-06-15T06:27:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=498383"},"modified":"2022-06-15T11:57:22","modified_gmt":"2022-06-15T06:27:22","slug":"air-india-fined-rs10-lakh-for-not-compensating-passengers-denied-boarding-dgca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/air-india-fined-rs10-lakh-for-not-compensating-passengers-denied-boarding-dgca\/","title":{"rendered":"Air India fined Rs10 lakh for not compensating passengers denied boarding: DGCA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) on Tuesday imposed a Rs10 lakh fine on Air India for not compensating passengers with confirmed bookings denied boarding on overbooked flights.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, the aviation regular said it was \u201ca matter of serious concern and unacceptable\u201d that the airline was not paying any compensation to \u201chapless passengers\u201d denied boarding and did not have a policy in this regard.<\/p>\n<p>DGCA recently reiterated the existing regulations on compensation for passengers and told airlines to strictly abide by the regulations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) on Tuesday imposed a Rs10 lakh fine on Air India for not compensating passengers with confirmed bookings denied boarding on overbooked flights. In a statement, the aviation regular said it was \u201ca matter of serious concern and unacceptable\u201d that the airline was not paying any compensation to \u201chapless passengers\u201d denied boarding and did not have a policy in this regard. DGCA recently reiterated the existing regulations on compensation for passengers and told airlines to strictly abide by the regulations.<\/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-498383","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\/498383","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=498383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}