Domestic Flights: Air India Announced Revised Charges For Date Change, No-Show And Cancellation

National carrier Air India on Wednesday in a trade circular announced revised Reissuance/Date Change, Cancellation, and No-Show charges. The new charges will be in effect from today (15th December 2020) and applicable to the domestic sectors only.

“The Reissuance/date change, Cancellation and No-Show charges have been revised effective
15th December 2020″ Air India said in the circular.

Here are the details of Air India’s revised charges on different classes of domestic sectors.

First Class

RBD : F&A

• CHANGE (Charges for Reissuance): NIL (Till 02 hours before departure)
• CANCELLATION (Charges for Refund): NIL (Till 02 hours before departure)
• NO-SHOW (Charges for No-Show): INR 3000/- or basic fare whichever is lower (less than 02 hours before departure)

Business Class

RBD: C, D & J

• CHANGE (Charges for Reissuance): NIL (Till 02 hours before departure)
• CANCELLATION (Charges for Refund): NIL (Till 02 hours before departure)
• NO-SHOW (Charges for No-Show): INR 3000/- or basic fare whichever is lower (less than 02 hours before departure)

RBD: Z

• CHANGE (Charges for Reissuance): INR. 3000/- or basic fare whichever is lower (Till 12 hours before departure)
• CANCELLATION (Charges for Refund): INR.4000/- or basic fare whichever is lower (Till 12 hours before departure)
• NO-SHOW (Charges for No-Show): INR 5000/- or basic fare whichever (less than 12 hours before departure)

Economy Class

RBD: Y,B & M

• CHANGE (Charges for Reissuance): NIL (Till 02 hours before departure)
• CANCELLATION (Charges for Refund): NIL (Till 02 hours before departure)
• NO-SHOW (Charges for No-Show): INR 3000/- or basic fare whichever is lower (less than 02 hours before departure)

RBD: H,K,Q,V,W,G,L & U

• CHANGE (Charges for Reissuance): INR 2500/- or basic fare whichever is lower (less than 02 hours before departure)
• CANCELLATION (Charges for Refund): INR 3000/- or basic fare whichever is lower (less than 02 hours before departure)
• NO-SHOW (Charges for No-Show): *Non-Refundable (Basic fare forfeited and Airline Fuel Charge) less than 02 hours before departure

RBD: T & S

• CHANGE (Charges for Reissuance): INR. 3000/- or basic fare whichever is lower (Till 12 hours before departure). Not permitted less than 12 hours of departure.
• CANCELLATION (Charges for Refund): INR 3500/- or basic fare whichever is lower (Till 12 hours before departure). *Non-Refundable (Basic Fare forfeited) less than 12 hours before departure.
• NO-SHOW (Charges for No-Show): *Non-Refundable (Basic fare forfeited) less than 12 hours before departure.

Applicable GST will be additional, as mentioned below:

• GST on Change/Re-issuance Fee For:
  • First Class & Business Class Ticket: 12% of Reissuance amount.
  • Economy Class Tickets: 5% of Reissuance amount, wherever applicable.

• GST Cancellation /Refund Fee For:
  • First Class & Business Class Ticket: 12% of Cancellation/Refund Fee amount or Basic
    fare whichever is lower.
  • Economy Class Tickets: 5% of Cancellation/Refund Fee amount, or Basic fare
    whichever is lower; whichever may be applicable as mentioned above.
  • Against ” Non-Refundable” Tickets, only Basic Fare to be forfeited. Statutory Taxes
    including GST and other Non-Airline charges are Refundable.

*In terms of CAR issued by DGCA file no. 23-16/2016-AED effective 1st August 2016 Under no circumstances, the cancellation charges shall be more than the basic fare plus fuel surcharge. (In Air India on Domestic Sectors Fuel charge is already merged with Basic Fare.)

• GST on No-Show Fee For:
  • First Class & Business Class Ticket: 12% of No-Show Fee.
  • Economy Class Tickets: 5% of No-Show Fee.

Note:

• GST is not applicable for Passenger embarking from or disembarking to an airport located in the state of Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Sikkim, Tripura or Bagdogra in West Bengal. The exemption therefore applies to/from the following airports: Dibrugarh, Guwahati, Jorhat, Lilabari, Silchar, Tezpur, Imphal, Shillong, Aizawl, Dimapur, Agartala and Bagdogra. However, this exemption will not apply to passengers using the above airports only as transfer points.
• Supply of transport of passenger by air services provided to United Nations, Foreign diplomatic
  mission or a specified international organization is subject to levy of GST.

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