{"id":658918,"date":"2026-02-27T11:17:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T05:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=658918"},"modified":"2026-02-27T11:17:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T05:47:07","slug":"full-flight-ticket-refunds-within-48-hours-what-the-new-dgca-rules-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/full-flight-ticket-refunds-within-48-hours-what-the-new-dgca-rules-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Full flight ticket refunds within 48 hours? What the new DGCA rules say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has revised air ticketing rules to introduce more passenger-friendly measures, offering significant relief to travellers. The aviation regulator has updated refund norms, removed name-correction fees in certain cases, and simplified the refund process after receiving numerous passenger grievances and complaints about airlines&#8217; handling of such issues.<\/p>\n<p>Under the updated norms, passengers can now cancel or modify air tickets without paying additional charges within 48 hours of booking, subject to specific conditions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has revised air ticketing rules to introduce more passenger-friendly measures, offering significant relief to travellers. The aviation regulator has updated refund norms, removed name-correction fees in certain cases, and simplified the refund process after receiving numerous passenger grievances and complaints about airlines&#8217; handling of such issues. Under the updated norms, passengers can now cancel or modify air tickets without paying additional charges within 48 hours of booking, subject to specific conditions.<\/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":[188,139,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-658918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658918","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=658918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658918\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}