{"id":507770,"date":"2022-07-22T09:15:48","date_gmt":"2022-07-22T03:45:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=507770"},"modified":"2022-07-22T09:39:47","modified_gmt":"2022-07-22T04:09:47","slug":"stop-charging-flyers-for-checking-in-at-airports-govt-directs-airlines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/stop-charging-flyers-for-checking-in-at-airports-govt-directs-airlines\/","title":{"rendered":"Stop charging flyers for checking-in at airports, govt directs airlines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Air travellers will no longer need to pay any additional fee for a boarding pass at airport check-in counters, the Ministry of Aviation said on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Following a spate of complaints on Twitter, the aviation ministry has asked airlines to immediately stop levying a fee of about Rs 200 per passenger for this service. India\u2019s largest airline IndiGo currently charges a fee if a passenger asks for a boarding pass at its check-in counter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt has come to the notice of the MCA that airlines are charging an additional amount for issuing boarding passes from passengers,\u201d the ministry said in a circular.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Air travellers will no longer need to pay any additional fee for a boarding pass at airport check-in counters, the Ministry of Aviation said on Thursday. Following a spate of complaints on Twitter, the aviation ministry has asked airlines to immediately stop levying a fee of about Rs 200 per passenger for this service. India\u2019s largest airline IndiGo currently charges a fee if a passenger asks for a boarding pass at its check-in counter. \u201cIt has come to the notice of the MCA that airlines are charging an additional amount for issuing boarding passes from passengers,\u201d the ministry said in [&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":[135,167,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-507770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-civil-aviation-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507770","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=507770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507770\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=507770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=507770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=507770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}