“Please arrange to refund my Airport Development Charges of Rs 600 collected excess while booking of ticket before January 1, 2013 as my return journey (Tokyo-Shanghai-Delhi) will end on February 27, 2013. Since this payment was made through credit card, the amount may please be credited through credit card.”
This is not a letter written to an airline for a refund for the excess Development Fee (DF) collected at Delhi airport; instead it is a letter from a reader of Business Line. Reading about the Directorate General of Civil Aviation’s (DGCA) decision to halve the DF collected at Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport from Rs 1,200 to Rs 600 for an international flight and from Rs 200 to Rs 100 for a domestic flight, readers like this one are wondering how they can collect the refund.
This is a valid question as the decision is to be implemented with retrospective effect. What this means is that all those passengers who had booked their tickets before January 1 for a flight after that date are entitled to get this money back.
09/01/13 Ashwini Phadnis/Business Line
