{"id":536469,"date":"2022-11-16T11:22:11","date_gmt":"2022-11-16T05:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=536469"},"modified":"2022-11-16T13:47:45","modified_gmt":"2022-11-16T08:17:45","slug":"us-orders-air-india-to-pay-121-5-million-as-passenger-refunds-1-4-million-as-fines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/us-orders-air-india-to-pay-121-5-million-as-passenger-refunds-1-4-million-as-fines\/","title":{"rendered":"US orders Air India to pay $121.5 million as passenger refunds, $1.4 million as fines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US has ordered Tata-group-owned Air India to pay a whopping $121.5 million as refunds and $1.4 million as penalties for extreme delays in providing refunds to passengers due to the cancellation or change in flights, mostly during the pandemic, officials said. <\/p>\n<p>Air India is among the six airlines that have agreed to cough up a total of over $600 million as refunds, the US Department of Transportation said on Monday. <\/p>\n<p>Air India\u2019s policy of \u201crefund on request\u201d is contrary to the Department of Transportation policy, which mandates air carriers to legally refund tickets in the case of cancellation or change in flight, officials said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US has ordered Tata-group-owned Air India to pay a whopping $121.5 million as refunds and $1.4 million as penalties for extreme delays in providing refunds to passengers due to the cancellation or change in flights, mostly during the pandemic, officials said. Air India is among the six airlines that have agreed to cough up a total of over $600 million as refunds, the US Department of Transportation said on Monday. Air India\u2019s policy of \u201crefund on request\u201d is contrary to the Department of Transportation policy, which mandates air carriers to legally refund tickets in the case of cancellation or [&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":[176,146,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-536469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536469","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=536469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536469\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=536469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=536469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=536469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}