{"id":640064,"date":"2024-03-30T10:18:37","date_gmt":"2024-03-30T04:48:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=640064"},"modified":"2024-03-30T11:40:52","modified_gmt":"2024-03-30T06:10:52","slug":"44-who-booked-flights-could-never-get-a-seat-assigned-without-a-fee-survey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/44-who-booked-flights-could-never-get-a-seat-assigned-without-a-fee-survey\/","title":{"rendered":"44% who booked flights could never get a seat assigned without a fee: survey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Indian consumers are increasingly frustrated with airline practices related to seat selection, according to a new survey by LocalCircles, a consumer advocacy group. The survey reveals the widespread use of &#8220;dark patterns&#8221; by airlines and online travel portals, manipulating customers into paying extra fees for seat selection during flight bookings. <\/p>\n<p>A significant portion of respondents (44%) reported airlines charging extra fees for every seat on the plane. This forces travellers to pay for preferred seats, even when booking well in advance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian consumers are increasingly frustrated with airline practices related to seat selection, according to a new survey by LocalCircles, a consumer advocacy group. The survey reveals the widespread use of &#8220;dark patterns&#8221; by airlines and online travel portals, manipulating customers into paying extra fees for seat selection during flight bookings. A significant portion of respondents (44%) reported airlines charging extra fees for every seat on the plane. This forces travellers to pay for preferred seats, even when booking well in advance.<\/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-640064","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\/640064","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=640064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640064\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=640064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=640064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=640064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}