{"id":644903,"date":"2025-09-03T11:26:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T05:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=644903"},"modified":"2025-09-03T11:26:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T05:56:09","slug":"1-burger-for-14hr-flight-delay-costs-airline-55000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/1-burger-for-14hr-flight-delay-costs-airline-55000\/","title":{"rendered":"1 burger for 14hr flight delay costs airline 55,000"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mumbai: A single burger and fries were clearly inadequate for a 14-hour flight delay. Pointing this out, a district consumer commission has ordered SpiceJet Ltd to pay Rs 50,000 in compensation for &#8220;expenses incurred and mental agony&#8221; to a Mulund resident and an additional Rs 5,000 to cover legal costs.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Adequate arrangements of meals, refreshments and water, and providing necessary relaxing area are\u2026 required in said scenario. Further, travellers must be kept well-informed of the delay,&#8221; the commission said, holding that by failing to do so, SpiceJet was found to be negligent and deficient in its service. &#8220;In a nutshell, if airlines take the defence that they took all reasonable steps, then it is to be proved and supported with flight logs, notices and communication. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mumbai: A single burger and fries were clearly inadequate for a 14-hour flight delay. Pointing this out, a district consumer commission has ordered SpiceJet Ltd to pay Rs 50,000 in compensation for &#8220;expenses incurred and mental agony&#8221; to a Mulund resident and an additional Rs 5,000 to cover legal costs. &#8220;Adequate arrangements of meals, refreshments and water, and providing necessary relaxing area are\u2026 required in said scenario. Further, travellers must be kept well-informed of the delay,&#8221; the commission said, holding that by failing to do so, SpiceJet was found to be negligent and deficient in its service. &#8220;In a nutshell, [&hellip;]<\/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":[220,130,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-644903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644903","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=644903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644903\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=644903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=644903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=644903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}