Insurers mention everything from small events and scenarios for which claims cannot be filed against cases where there is a flight cancellation or delays, which are cited as terms and conditions on airlines and OTAs, and exclusions in travel insurance policy wording.
A source in the know said 23 flights of IndiGo and 2 flights of SpiceJet that were scheduled to operate from T1 were cancelled on Saturday
For a traveller to be covered by his travel insurance policy, the reason for flight cancellation or delay must be listed as a peril under the policy. If that’s the case, the insurer will cover the amount that is not refunded by the airline, albeit up to a certain limit.
The spate of cancellations, due to pilots taking sick leave en masse to protest the terms of their new contracts following the airline's merger with Air India, has prompted the Union Civil Aviation Ministry to seek a detailed report from Vistara.
Many of the passengers were accommodated on another carrier's flight, some were provided hotel accommodation in the national capital, and a full refund was also offered to people who preferred that option, an Air India spokesperson said in a statement.
Go First said it will issue a full refund to passengers' original mode of payment. The airline has already stopped issuing tickets after it temporarily ceased operations on May 3
The cash-strapped airline said that they are cancelling all flights till May 23 due to “operational reasons”.
The plane, which had around 180 people onboard, flew over Leh for sometime but couldn't land, and returned to the Delhi airport, as per the passengers.
Southwest Airlines, which canceled 65 percent of its flights, was the airline most affected on Monday.
About 4,000 flights around the world scheduled for Christmas Eve or Christmas Day were scrapped, according to FlightAware, an aviation data provider — more than 1,000 of them in the United States.
Air France, British Airways, KLM, Lufthansa promise quick refunds. Air India owes ticketed passengers Rs 250 crore in refunds. In the US, airline refund complaints are up 4,552%.
Several states mandated quarantine for air passenger in a bid to prevent a surge in coronavirus cases. Several airlines cancelled flights without giving any prior notice to passengers.
Travel insurance policy offers a wide array of benefits. Do compare the offerings of various insurance companies before choosing one.
As of now, it appears SpiceJet will need more than falling crude prices if it has to make it out whole, given the fact that its promoters (the Maran brothers) have ruled out further capital infusion that it dearly needs.
CNBC-TV18's Karma Paljor learns that the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) might not be looking at punitive action against the battered Kingfisher Airlines for unnotified cancellation of flights.
Aviation regulator DGCA on Thursday issued a notice to no-frill carrier IndiGo to explain why it had not taken the regulator's prior approval to curtail its flight schedules as is required by the rule.