Air Deccan fined Rs 50,000 for misleading passenger

New Delhi: Air Deccan has been asked to pay compensation of Rs 25,000 to a customer who had booked three low-cost air tickets nearly six months in advance but was informed later that the flight had been cancelled.
The Delhi state Consumer Commission has also asked Air Deccan to deposit an equal amount with it as part of the Legal Aid fund.
Justice J D Kapoor held the airlines guilty of falsely informing the consumer that his flight booked six months in advance under a promotional fare scheme has been cancelled as the Bombay-Delhi flights were not operational from May 1-31, 2007. The airlines had also claimed that the consumer himself cancelled the tickets and asked them for compensation.
The complainant, Ajay Goel, said on April 27, 2007, that he verified Air Deccan's flight cancellation and found it to be untrue. He claimed the lower value tickets of Rs 300 he had purchased were cancelled on the flight in lieu of the more expensive tickets costing Rs 7,650.
The court turned down the Air Deccan plea that it has the right to cancel flights under circumstances beyond its control like meteorological conditions, mechanical failure, staff or employee strikes, wars, disturbances, labour difficulties or others as in the present case not a single circumstance existed for cancelling the flight.
20/05/08 IANS/Sify

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