{"id":658934,"date":"2026-02-27T12:11:48","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T06:41:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=658934"},"modified":"2026-02-27T12:37:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T07:07:17","slug":"no-penalty-for-cancelling-flight-tickets-within-48-hours-of-buying-dgca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/no-penalty-for-cancelling-flight-tickets-within-48-hours-of-buying-dgca\/","title":{"rendered":"No penalty for cancelling flight tickets within 48 hours of buying: DGCA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Passengers will be able to cancel or amend flight tickets without penalty within 48 hours of purchase, and will no longer be forced into credit shells when seeking refunds, under revised norms issued by India\u2019s civil aviation regulator.<\/p>\n<p>The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) revised ticket refund norms for airlines, mandating a 48-hour \u201clook-in option\u201d allowing passengers to cancel or amend flight tickets without additional charges after booking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Passengers will be able to cancel or amend flight tickets without penalty within 48 hours of purchase, and will no longer be forced into credit shells when seeking refunds, under revised norms issued by India\u2019s civil aviation regulator. The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) revised ticket refund norms for airlines, mandating a 48-hour \u201clook-in option\u201d allowing passengers to cancel or amend flight tickets without additional charges after booking.<\/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":[184,141,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-658934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-hindustantimes","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658934","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=658934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658934\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}