Air tickets booked during Mar 25-May 3 to be fully refunded: DGCA to SC

DGCA informed Supreme Court that non-refund would be a violation under Aircraft Rules of 1937

Full refund shall be provide by airlines immediately for tickets booked during the Covid-19 lockdown period for domestic or international travel within the lockdown period, civil aviation regulator DGCA has proposed in the Supreme Court.

For all other cases, the airlines shall make all endeavors to refund the collected amount to the passenger within 15 days, the Director General of Civil Aviation said in an affidavit file in the top court.

If the tickets have been booked during the first lockdown period, that is March 25, to April 14, 2020 for the journeys to be undertaken in both first and second lockdown