The Supreme Court on Thursday accepted the Directorate General of Civil Aviation recommendations for refunding passengers for airline tickets that were cancelled because of the lockdown enforced to contain the coronavirus, Live Law reported.
The court allowed airline companies to set up a credit shell facility in the names of passengers. If the credit is not used, airlines have to mandatorily refund the ticket money to the passengers by March 31, 2021. The credit scheme is transferable to anyone.
A bench of Justices Ashok Bhushan, R Subhash Reddy and MR Shah, however, clarified that in cases where tickets were booked through travel agents, the money would be utilised through them and not directly by the passenger.
During the last hearing on September 25, the court had reserved its verdict on a batch of petitions seeking refund for airline tickets booked during the nationwide…