{"id":655714,"date":"2025-12-08T08:54:22","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T03:24:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=655714"},"modified":"2025-12-08T09:46:37","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T04:16:37","slug":"indigo-meltdown-govt-orders-carrier-to-clear-all-pending-refunds-by-december-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/indigo-meltdown-govt-orders-carrier-to-clear-all-pending-refunds-by-december-7\/","title":{"rendered":"IndiGo meltdown: Govt orders carrier to clear all pending refunds by December 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ministry of Civil Aviation has ordered IndiGo to clear all pending passenger refunds arising from cancelled or disrupted flights by 8:00 PM on Sunday, December 7, warning that any delay or non-compliance will trigger immediate regulatory action. The government further instructed airlines not to levy rescheduling charges on affected passengers. <\/p>\n<p>The directive comes as domestic air travel continues to reel under a severe operational crisis at IndiGo, which has cancelled more than 1,000 flights in the past four days, causing nationwide disruptions and driving up fares across carriers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ministry of Civil Aviation has ordered IndiGo to clear all pending passenger refunds arising from cancelled or disrupted flights by 8:00 PM on Sunday, December 7, warning that any delay or non-compliance will trigger immediate regulatory action. The government further instructed airlines not to levy rescheduling charges on affected passengers. The directive comes as domestic air travel continues to reel under a severe operational crisis at IndiGo, which has cancelled more than 1,000 flights in the past four days, causing nationwide disruptions and driving up fares across carriers.<\/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":[192,130,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-655714","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\/655714","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=655714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655714\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=655714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=655714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=655714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}