Dgca Issued Notice To Airlines To Explain Reason For High Cancellation Charges

It is witnessed that airlines are taking all the necessary steps to reduce their risk and earn huge profit. In this regard, they have hiked the ticket cancellation charges and have put much burden on the passengers. Therefore keeping the passengers grievance in consideration, DGCA (Directorate General of Civil Aviation) has asked these airlines to explain the valid reason for such a high cancellation charges. Recently IndiGo hiked cancellation price to Rs, 2250 and in a row, Air India also hiked the charges by Rs. 500. Therefore, DGCA provided a written notice to explain the reason for ticket cancellation charges, as the ticket cancellation charges are equivalent to some short journey in India. The response from airlines needs to be submitted in a written form until Friday.

The last move from IndiGo on ticket cancellation was that airline will not refunded anything if the tickets were cancelled 0-2 hours before the departure of flight. The cancellation charges before this increase for IndiGo was Rs. 1,900 for more than seven days and if tickets were cancelled within, two hours of flight, then the charges would be Rs. 2,250. Along with all these airlines, SpiceJet and AirAsia also raised the cancellation charges.