{"id":612593,"date":"2023-10-26T12:15:12","date_gmt":"2023-10-26T06:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=612593"},"modified":"2023-10-26T12:20:16","modified_gmt":"2023-10-26T06:50:16","slug":"whats-free-web-check-in-when-all-seats-are-paid-govt-asks-airlines-raises-concerns-over-unfair-practices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/whats-free-web-check-in-when-all-seats-are-paid-govt-asks-airlines-raises-concerns-over-unfair-practices\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s free web check-in when all seats are paid? Govt asks airlines, raises concerns over unfair practices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Indian consumer affairs ministry has expressed concerns regarding unfair trade practices adopted by airlines and online travel aggregators. As per a TOI report, these practices include misleading claims such as showing every seat as &#8216;paid&#8217; despite offering a &#8220;free mandatory web check-in&#8221;, denying boarding to passengers with confirmed tickets, and delayed refunds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Indian consumer affairs ministry has expressed concerns regarding unfair trade practices adopted by airlines and online travel aggregators. As per a TOI report, these practices include misleading claims such as showing every seat as &#8216;paid&#8217; despite offering a &#8220;free mandatory web check-in&#8221;, denying boarding to passengers with confirmed tickets, and delayed refunds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[192,130,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-612593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612593","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\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=612593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612593\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=612593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=612593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=612593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}